 | John Stuart Mill - 1849 - 638 pagina’s
...the Lakes, he speaks of the upper part of the dales as having been for centuries " a perfect republic of shepherds and agriculturists, proprietors, for...part, of the lands which they occupied and cultivated. The plough of each man was confined to the maintenance of his own family, or to the occasional accommodation... | |
 | John Hill Burton - 1849 - 356 pagina’s
...regenerated the Irish cottars, and made them like Wordsworth's peasantry of the lakes — 'a perfect republic of shepherds and agriculturists, proprietors for the...part of the lands which they occupied and cultivated. The plough of each man was confined to the maintenance of his own family, or to the occasional accommodation... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1853 - 310 pagina’s
...the most commodious town. They had, as I have said, their rural chapel, and of course their minister, clothing or in manner of life in no respect differing...native forest must have been every where receding; hut trees were planted for the sustenance of the flocks in winter, — such was then the rude state... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1870 - 140 pagina’s
...the Lakes, he speaks of the upper part of the dales as having been for centuries " a perfect republic of shepherds and agriculturists, proprietors, for...part, of the lands which they occupied and cultivated. The plough of each man was confined to the maintenance of his own family, or to the occasional accommodation... | |
 | James Harrison Rigg - 1873 - 556 pagina’s
...quotations. The upper part of the dales in spoken of as having been for centuries "a perfect republic of shepherds and agriculturists, proprietors, for the most part, of the lands they occupied and cultivated ; the members of which existed in the midst of a powerful empire, like... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1886 - 460 pagina’s
...their upland property with outhouses of native stone, as places of shelter for their sheep, where, in tempestuous weather, food was distributed to them....detailed was going on, the native forest must have been everywhere receding; but trees were planted for the sustenance of the flocks in winter, — such was... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1885 - 626 pagina’s
...the Lakes, he speaks of the upper part of the dales as having been for centuries " a perfect republic of shepherds and agriculturists, proprietors, for...part, of the lands which they occupied and cultivated. The plough of each man was confined to the maintenance of his own family, or to the occasional accommodation... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1886 - 462 pagina’s
...houses, and carried to market, either under their arms, or more frequently on pack-horses, a small tram taking their way weekly down the valley or over the...detailed was going on, the native forest must have been everywhere receding; but trees were planted for the sustenance of the flocks in winter, — such was... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1892 - 628 pagina’s
...the Lakes, he speaks of the upper part of the dales as baving been for centuries " a perfect republic of shepherds and agriculturists, proprietors, for...part, of the lands which they occupied and cultivated. The plough of each man was confined to the maintenance of his own family, or to the occasional accommodation... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1906 - 260 pagina’s
...themselves, except on the Sabbath-day ; this was the sole distinguished individual among them ; everything else, person and possession, exhibited a perfect equality,...detailed was going on, the native forest must have been everywhere receding ; but trees were planted for the sustenance of the flocks in winter, — such was... | |
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... valley or over the mountains to the most commodious town. They had, as I have said, their rural chapel, and of course their minister, in clothing or in manner of life, in no respect differing from themselves, except on the Sabbath-day ; this was the... 
