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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... seemed very much pleased with the speci- mens shewn him of these improvements . I then produced samples of the patent machines for carding flax or hemp , invented by one Stead , near Edinburgh , which completed all the operations ...
... seemed very much pleased with the speci- mens shewn him of these improvements . I then produced samples of the patent machines for carding flax or hemp , invented by one Stead , near Edinburgh , which completed all the operations ...
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... seemed to consider as of a superior description . The conversation having turned on the military services of Scotland , his Majesty pronounced a warm eulogium on that well - known corps , " The Scotch Greys , " which had frequently ...
... seemed to consider as of a superior description . The conversation having turned on the military services of Scotland , his Majesty pronounced a warm eulogium on that well - known corps , " The Scotch Greys , " which had frequently ...
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... seemed particularly anxious to know the state of Sweden , where , in the summer of 1786 , a total change of government had very nearly taken place . I stated , that the reports which had been circulated , regarding the criti- cal ...
... seemed particularly anxious to know the state of Sweden , where , in the summer of 1786 , a total change of government had very nearly taken place . I stated , that the reports which had been circulated , regarding the criti- cal ...
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... seemed to be gratified . He expressed his regret at the shortness of my stay at Berlin , as these were subjects , he said , with which he was very much occupied at that time , and he would have been glad to have been favoured with the ...
... seemed to be gratified . He expressed his regret at the shortness of my stay at Berlin , as these were subjects , he said , with which he was very much occupied at that time , and he would have been glad to have been favoured with the ...
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... seemed to me the most inveterate . considered a braver , a richer , a more polite , and a more learned nation than their neighbours ; and the most agreeable of all topics , was to compare them with the Swedes , and to cast the balance ...
... seemed to me the most inveterate . considered a braver , a richer , a more polite , and a more learned nation than their neighbours ; and the most agreeable of all topics , was to compare them with the Swedes , and to cast the balance ...
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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 373 - ... consequently, the decay of population is the greatest evil that a state can suffer ; and the improvement of it the object which ought, in all countries, to be aimed at in preference to every other political purpose whatsoever.
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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,...