Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, Том 99Pub. for J. Hinton., 1796 |
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... land without the leaft judgment , and knows , indeed , fo little of agriculture , that I queftion if he can tell corn from rye , or explain to you what a first and fecond crop means . His fervants eat him out of house and home ; and do ...
... land without the leaft judgment , and knows , indeed , fo little of agriculture , that I queftion if he can tell corn from rye , or explain to you what a first and fecond crop means . His fervants eat him out of house and home ; and do ...
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... land ; it is the red kind , that the farmer prefers for feed ; it is the hardiest , and the fureft of finding fale ; the white and the grey being in our country lefs in request . We raife much more than the parish would con- fume . The ...
... land ; it is the red kind , that the farmer prefers for feed ; it is the hardiest , and the fureft of finding fale ; the white and the grey being in our country lefs in request . We raife much more than the parish would con- fume . The ...
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... land of multi- tudes of the miferable furvivors . I speak difinterestedly , for I have not on my estate a single great farmer . I find no merit in this affertio ; had it been otherwife , I fhould have fup- ported him in all that was ...
... land of multi- tudes of the miferable furvivors . I speak difinterestedly , for I have not on my estate a single great farmer . I find no merit in this affertio ; had it been otherwife , I fhould have fup- ported him in all that was ...
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... lands is pretty well inclofed , but hilly and expofed fituations are mostly open . The fize of the fields depends much on ... land , reaching on the coaft from Abe- rairon to Llanrhyfted . This quarter is much intermixed , and chiefly in ...
... lands is pretty well inclofed , but hilly and expofed fituations are mostly open . The fize of the fields depends much on ... land , reaching on the coaft from Abe- rairon to Llanrhyfted . This quarter is much intermixed , and chiefly in ...
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... land pays the pro- prictor equally with woodland , and that grubbing and converting it to tillage is fo much money loft . No tythes , rates low , and outgoings tri- fling , are great advantages , which it poffeffes over other lands ...
... land pays the pro- prictor equally with woodland , and that grubbing and converting it to tillage is fo much money loft . No tythes , rates low , and outgoings tri- fling , are great advantages , which it poffeffes over other lands ...
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