Travels During the Years 1787, 1788, and 1789: Undertaken More Particularly with a View of Ascertaining the Cultivation, Wealth, Resources, and National Prosperity of the Kingdom of France, Bindi 1J. Rackham, 1792 - 566 síður |
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Travels During the Years 1787, 1788, and 1789: Undertaken More Particularly ... Arthur Young, III Engin sýnishorn í boði - 2015 |
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Síða 65 - In electricity he has made a remarkable discovery : you write two or three words on a paper ; he takes it with him into a room, and turns a machine inclosed in a cylindrical case, at the top of which is an electrometer, a small fine pith ball; a wire connects with a similar cylinder and electrometer in a distant apartment ; and his wife, by remarking the corresponding motions of the ball, writes down the words they indicate : from which it appears...
Síða 65 - ... he takes it with him into a room, and turns a machine enclosed in a cylindrical case, at the top of which is an electrometer, a small fine pith ball : a wire connects with a similar cylinder and electrometer in a distant apartment, and his wife by remarking the corresponding motions of the ball, writes down the words they indicate, from which it appears that he has formed an alphabet of motions. As the length of the wire makes no difference in the effect, a correspondence might be carried on...
Síða 83 - Combourg, the country has a savage aspect; husbandry not much further advanced, at least in skill, than among the Hurons, which appears incredible amidst inclosures; the people almost as wild as their country, and their town of Combourg one of the most brutal filthy places that can be seen; mud houses, no windows, and a pavement so broken as to impede all passengers, but ease none — yet here is a chateau, and inhabited; who is this Mons. de Chateaubriant,* the owner, that has nerves strung for...
Síða 134 - I am inclined to think, that they work harder than the men, and this, united with the more miserable labour of bringing a new race of slaves into the world, destroys absolutely all symmetry of person and every feminine appearance. To what are we to attribute this difference in the manners of the lower people in the two kingdoms? To GOVERNMENT.
Síða 7 - The most English idea I saw is the lawn in front of the stables ; it is large, of a good verdure, and well kept; proving clearly that they may have as fine lawns in the north of France as in England. The labyrinth is the only complete one I have seen, and I have no inclination to see another : it is in gardening what a rebus is in poetry. In the Sylvae are many very fine and scarce plants.
Síða 528 - A. then said, that he had seen the name of Gordon first in the list, and he begged to know, as in all probability the person of this name was a British subject, on what account he had been put into the Bastile.
Síða 401 - Where," he asks-, with perfect truth, " is the little farmer to be found who will cover his whole farm with marl at the rate of 100 or 150 tons per acre ? who will drain all his land at the expense of £2 or £3 an acre ? who will pay a heavy price for the manure of towns, and convey it thirty miles by land carriage...
Síða 535 - It is impossible to justify the excesses of the people on their taking up arms ; they were certainly guilty of cruelties ; it is idle to deny the facts, for they have been proved too clearly to admit of a doubt. But is it really the people to •whom we are to impute the whole ? — Or to their oppressors who had kept them so long in a state of bondage ? He who chooses to be served by...
Síða 137 - This is the general feeling; they are as nearly concerned as Paris ; but they dare not stir ; they dare not even have an opinion of their own till they know what Paris thinks ; so that if a starving populace were not in question, no one would dream of moving.
Síða 56 - ... looms employed, and preparations making for more. As the spinning for these looms is also established, it gives employment to great numbers of hands who were idle, for they have no sort of manufacture in the country though it is populous. Such efforts merit great praise.