| Robert Beverley, Charles Campbell - 1855 - 324 pagina’s
...Had that fertility of soil ? So has Virginia, equal to any land in the known world. In fine, if any one impartially considers all the advantages of this country, as nature made it, he must allow it toj.be as fine a place as any in the universe ; but I confess I am ashamed to say any thing of its... | |
| Robert Beverley, Charles Campbell - 1855 - 312 pagina’s
...Had that fertility of soil ? So has Virginia, equal to any land in the known world. In fine, if any one impartially considers all the advantages of this country, as nature made it, he must allow it to|5be as fine a place as any in the universe ; but I confess I am ashamed to say any thing of its... | |
| Committee on the Centennial Celebration of the Establishment of the Seat of Government in the District of Columbia, Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Wilhelmus Bogart Bryan, Gaillard Hunt, Arthur Jeffrey Parsons, Samuel Clagett Busey, United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Printing - 1901 - 450 pagina’s
...heat and cold, was genial and wholesome, save in low and marshy regions, and cattle, sheep, and s%vine could be kept in most winter seasons in the open air....swarmed with fish — the toothsome shad, the delicate rock-fish, the multitudinous herring, the lively bass, the immense sturgeon, with crabs and oysters... | |
| Brent Moore - 1905 - 132 pagina’s
...hats and leather; yet flax and hemp grow nowhere in the world better than there * * * In fine, if any one impartially considers all the advantages of this...allow it to be as fine a place as any in the Universe; but I am ashamed to say anything of its improvements, because I must at the same time reproach my Countrymen... | |
| Leo Marx - 2000 - 428 pagina’s
...describes the influence of the new setting upon his countrymen, he becomes confused: In fine, if any one impartially considers all the Advantages of this...it to be as fine a Place, as any in the Universe; but I confess I am asham'd to say any thing of its Improvements, because I must at the same time reproach... | |
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