Land: Its Attractions and RichesCharles Finch Dowsett |
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... Rural districts have become in a measure impoverished , farmers have had to desert the old homesteads of their ancestors , labourers have been reduced to great poverty and have been compelled to immigrate to towns , trades- men have had ...
... Rural districts have become in a measure impoverished , farmers have had to desert the old homesteads of their ancestors , labourers have been reduced to great poverty and have been compelled to immigrate to towns , trades- men have had ...
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... rural districts should not be allowed to continue to be starved of that use of capital , and deprived of residential owners , without some effort being made to influence public opinion , so that country homes and country invest- ments ...
... rural districts should not be allowed to continue to be starved of that use of capital , and deprived of residential owners , without some effort being made to influence public opinion , so that country homes and country invest- ments ...
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... rural districts and around every town in the Kingdom , numbers of persons would be withdrawn from the combinations of disturbers , a feeling of greater content- ment engendered , and a strong repressing influence upon recurrent ...
... rural districts and around every town in the Kingdom , numbers of persons would be withdrawn from the combinations of disturbers , a feeling of greater content- ment engendered , and a strong repressing influence upon recurrent ...
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... rural districts were being drained of their population , and it is urgently necessary , if a national calamity is to be averted , that steps should be taken at once to enable the rural population to remain at home under the health- ful ...
... rural districts were being drained of their population , and it is urgently necessary , if a national calamity is to be averted , that steps should be taken at once to enable the rural population to remain at home under the health- ful ...
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... rural districts to the suburbs , and from the suburbs to the centre of a town . Dr. Miquel of the Montsouris Observatory in Paris , has very methodically examined the air for a series of years , and he reports that on high mountains and ...
... rural districts to the suburbs , and from the suburbs to the centre of a town . Dr. Miquel of the Montsouris Observatory in Paris , has very methodically examined the air for a series of years , and he reports that on high mountains and ...
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Page 85 - Hoards e'en beyond the miser's wish abound, And rich men flock from all the world around. Yet count our gains. This wealth is but a name That leaves our useful products still the same. Not so the loss. The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that many poor supplied; Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds, Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds...
Page 84 - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
Page 139 - THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave. And spread the roof above them, — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.
Page 80 - Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, — The seasons...
Page 95 - Or the nard in the fire ? Or have tasted the bag of the bee ? O so white, O so soft, O so sweet is she!
Page 866 - Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
Page 98 - And only through the faded leaf The chestnut pattering to the ground : Calm and deep peace on this high wold, And on these dews that drench the furze, And all the silvery gossamers That twinkle into green and gold...
Page 98 - Sing, O ye heavens; for the Lord hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel.
Page 94 - Pleased with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he shakes From many a twig the pendent drops of ice, That tinkle in the wither'd leaves below. Stillness, accompanied with sounds so soft, Charms more than silence.
Page 91 - That cares not for its home. — All shod with steel We hissed along the polished ice, in games Confederate, imitative of the Chase And woodland pleasures, — the resounding horn, The Pack loud-bellowing, and the hunted hare.