The Correspondence of the Right Honourable Sir John Sinclair, Bart: With Reminiscences of the Most Distinguished Characters who Have Appeared in Great Britain, and in Foreign Countries, During the Last Fifty Years. Illustrated by Facsimiles of Two Hundred Autographs ...H. Colburn & R. Bentley, 1831 - Agriculturists |
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... obliged by law , to work at the roads for six days in the year ; but this system was found to be inefficient * . An act was therefore procured , for converting the statute labour into money ; and afterwards , even turnpikes have been ...
... obliged by law , to work at the roads for six days in the year ; but this system was found to be inefficient * . An act was therefore procured , for converting the statute labour into money ; and afterwards , even turnpikes have been ...
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... obliging things in the most courteous manner possible : For instance , " He regretted that my stay was likely to be short ; " adding , " that he would not have parted with me so soon , had he not believed that I was a good Englishman ...
... obliging things in the most courteous manner possible : For instance , " He regretted that my stay was likely to be short ; " adding , " that he would not have parted with me so soon , had he not believed that I was a good Englishman ...
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... obliged to study medicine , and established himself in Saxony , where he acqui- red a high reputation . The King of Prussia offered him very handsome terms to settle at his capital , which he accepted . Upon his arrival in Berlin , and ...
... obliged to study medicine , and established himself in Saxony , where he acqui- red a high reputation . The King of Prussia offered him very handsome terms to settle at his capital , which he accepted . Upon his arrival in Berlin , and ...
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... obliging offer to send hither a copy of the interesting work on agriculture , which you are about to complete . His Majesty has desired me to express to you his obligation for this mark of respect . He will receive it with pleasure ...
... obliging offer to send hither a copy of the interesting work on agriculture , which you are about to complete . His Majesty has desired me to express to you his obligation for this mark of respect . He will receive it with pleasure ...
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... obliging favour of the 2d instant , and the interesting account it contained of the last Piping Competition , which could not fail of being highly interesting to one , who sets so high a value as he does , upon any thing that tends to ...
... obliging favour of the 2d instant , and the interesting account it contained of the last Piping Competition , which could not fail of being highly interesting to one , who sets so high a value as he does , upon any thing that tends to ...
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Page 63 - But it may be truly said, that men too much conversant in office, are rarely minds of remarkable enlargement. Their habits of office are apt to give them a turn to think the substance of business not to be much more important than the forms in which it is conducted.
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Page 64 - ... to which they lead. When theoretical knowledge and practical skill are happily combined in the same person, the intellectual power of man appears in its full perfection, and fits him equally to conduct, with a masterly hand, the details of ordinary business, and to contend successfully with the ffi /u / * untried difficulties of new and hazardous situations.
Page 64 - Their habits of office are apt to give them a turn to think the substance of business not to be much more important than the forms in which it is conducted. These forms are adapted to ordinary occasions; and, therefore, persons who are nurtured in office, do admirably well, as long as things go on in their common order; but when the high roads are broken up, and the waters out; when a new and troubled scene is opened, and the file affords no precedent, then it is that a greater knowledge of mankind,...