A General View of Kincardineshire, Or, The Mearns: Drawn Up and Published by Order of the Board of AgricultureR. Phillips, 1810 - 552 עמודים |
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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עמוד 312 - At that time there was, except a few old trees around the mansion-house, scarcely a single shrub of any value on the whole property. The Cowie, running about three miles through the lands of Ury, had, in the lapse of ages, worn for itself a deep channel. Through the whole extent of this course, springs of water from the circumjacent grounds were continually oozing to the banks, where they formed marshes and quagmires ; which, from time to time, bursting, were precipitated by land-slips into the river.
עמוד 2 - ... the Board with accounts of the state of husbandry, and the means of improving the different districts of the kingdom. The returns they sent were printed, and circulated by every means the Board of Agriculture could devise, in the districts to which they respectively related ; and in consequence of that circulation, a great mass of additional valuable information has been obtained. For the purpose of communicating that information to the Public in general, but more especially to those Counties...
עמוד 1 - ... minute and careful inquiry, into the actual state of every parochial district in the kingdom, and the circumstances of its inhabitants. Under one or other of these heads, every point of real importance, that can tend to promote the general happiness of a great nation, seems to be included. Investigations of so extensive and so complicated a nature, must require, it is evident, a considerable space of time before they can be completed.
עמוד 1 - Empire, will necessarily have it in view to examine the sources of public prosperity, in regard to various important particulars. Perhaps the following is the most natural order for carrying on such important investigations; namely, to ascertain, 1. The riches to be obtained from the surface of the national territory. 2. The mineral or subterraneous treasures of which the country is possessed. 3. The wealth to be derived from its streams, rivers, canals, inland navigations, coasts, and fisheries...
עמוד 8 - Measures calculated for that Purpose. APPENDIX. PERFECTION in such inquiries is not in the power of any body of men to obtain at once, whatever may be the extent of their views or the vigour of their exertions. If Louis XIV. eager to have his kingdom known, and possessed of boundless power to effect it, failed so- much in the attempt, that of all the provinces in. his kingdom, only one was so described as to secure the approbation of posterity *, it will not be thought strange that a Board, possessed...
עמוד 467 - An Act for taking away and abolishing the Heritable Jurisdictions in that part of Great Britain called Scotland...
עמוד 188 - For the operation appears to have been limited to the height of three or four feet at most. Respecting Fenella herself, there is very little traditionary history in the neighbouring country. Buchanan gives a fabulous account of her, as living in the reign of Kenneth III., about the end of the tenth century ; and that she was slain and her castle demolished in the year 994, for the part she acted in the murder of that prince. It is so far certain, however, that different places in the Mearns still...
עמוד 3 - MAJESTY, and both Houses of Parliament ; and afterwards, a General Report on the present state of the country, and the means of its improvement, may be systematically arranged, according to the various subjects connected with Agriculture. Thus every individual in the kingdom may have, 1. An account of the husbandry of his own particular county ; or, 2. A general view of the agricultural state of the kingdom at large, according to the counties, or districts, into which it is divided; or, 3. An arranged...