The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select [by] Sholto and Reuben Percy, Brothers of the Benedictine Monastery, Mont Benger, Volume 18T. Boys, 1826 |
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... cottages . By the Act , twenty sheep and four beasts were allowed to each right ; but every circumstance rested within the power of the trustees , who have reduced this to ten sheep and two head of horses or cattle . William Palmer ...
... cottages . By the Act , twenty sheep and four beasts were allowed to each right ; but every circumstance rested within the power of the trustees , who have reduced this to ten sheep and two head of horses or cattle . William Palmer ...
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... cottage and garden situated about two miles from Tadcaster , on the road to York , has long attracted the eye of the traveller . The slip of land is exactly a quarter of an acre , inclosed by a quickset hedge , and contains fifteen ...
... cottage and garden situated about two miles from Tadcaster , on the road to York , has long attracted the eye of the traveller . The slip of land is exactly a quarter of an acre , inclosed by a quickset hedge , and contains fifteen ...
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... cottage at Poppleton , where , with two acres of land and his common - right , he kept two COWS . Here he had resided very comfortably , as a labourer , for nine years , and had six children living , and his wife preparing to lie in of ...
... cottage at Poppleton , where , with two acres of land and his common - right , he kept two COWS . Here he had resided very comfortably , as a labourer , for nine years , and had six children living , and his wife preparing to lie in of ...
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... cottage and garden neat ; and why should not other squires have the same pleasure in seeing the cottages and gardens as nice about them ? The poor would then be happy , and would love them and the place where they lived ; but now every ...
... cottage and garden neat ; and why should not other squires have the same pleasure in seeing the cottages and gardens as nice about them ? The poor would then be happy , and would love them and the place where they lived ; but now every ...
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... cottages and gardens as neat as his , and that he must tell me all his secret how it was done , he seemed extremely pleased , and very much affected ; he said , " nothing would make poor folks more happy , than finding that great folks ...
... cottages and gardens as neat as his , and that he must tell me all his secret how it was done , he seemed extremely pleased , and very much affected ; he said , " nothing would make poor folks more happy , than finding that great folks ...
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Page 37 - He had walk for an hundred sheep, and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able and did find the king a harness, with himself and his horse, while he came to the place that he should receive the king's wages. I can remember that I buckled his harness when he went to Blackheath field. He kept me to school, or else I had not been able to have preached before the King's Majesty now.
Page 9 - Who greatly spurn'd the slothful pomp of courts; And roaming every land, in every port His sceptre laid aside, with glorious hand Unwearied plying the mechanic tool, Gather'd the seeds of trade, of useful arts, Of civil wisdom, and of martial skill. Charg'd with the stores of Europe home he goes! Then cities rise amid th...
Page 48 - Meredith worked it off at press ; it was often eleven at night, and sometimes later, before I had finished my distribution for the next day's work, for the little jobs sent in by our other friends now and then put us back.
Page 38 - He married my sisters with five pound or twenty nobles a-piece, so that he brought them up in godliness and fear of God. He kept hospitality for his poor neighbours ; and some alms he gave to the poor, and all this he did of the said farm.
Page 37 - My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep; and my mother milked thirty kine.
Page 166 - It may with truth be said, that at this period they possessed almost all the vices and very few of the virtues of a social community. Theft and the receipt of stolen goods was their trade, idleness and drunkenness their habit, falsehood and deception their garb, dissensions, civil and religious, their daily practice; they united only in a zealous systematic opposition to their employers.
Page 167 - It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Page 108 - Mr. . enquired if there were any shoemakers on board. The captain advanced : his appearance bespoke his office ; he is an American, tall, determined, and with an eye that flashes with Algerine cruelty. He called in the Dutch language for shoe-makers, and never can I forget the scene which followed. The poor fellows came running up with unspeakable delight, no doubt anticipating a relief from their loathsome dungeon. Their clothes, if rags deserve that denomination, actually perfumed the aft.
Page 54 - ... of arms were able to manufacture without machines forty years ago; and that the cotton now manufactured in the course of one year, in Great Britain, would require, without machines, sixteen millions of workmen with simple wheels. He calculates...
Page 49 - I ever saw of the kind ; I see him still at work when I go home from club, and he is at work again before his neighbors are out of bed.