 | John Hudson (of Kendal.), William Wordsworth - Geology - 1842 - 336 pages
...regarded as a pledge of a disposition to be otherwise serviceable in a time of disability and distress. chapel was the only edifice that presided over these...and blood ; and venerable was the transition, when a carious traveller, descending from the heart of the mountains, had come to some ancient manorial residence... | |
 | John Hudson - Cumbria (England) - 1843 - 312 pages
...an organized community whose constitution had been imposed and regulated by the mountains which had protected it. Neither high-born nobleman, knight,...ancient manorial residence in the more open parts of the vales, which, through rights attached to its proprietor, connected the almost visionary mountain... | |
 | English literature - 1844 - 742 pages
...knight, nor squire was here ; but many of these humble sons of the hills had a consciousness that tne land which they walked over and tilled had for more than five hundred years been possessed by men 6f their name and blood ; and striking was the transition, when a curious traveller, descending from... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Business & Economics - 1848 - 622 pages
...and agriculturists, proprietors, for the most part, of the lands which they occupied and cultivated. The plough of each man was confined to the maintenance...years been possessed by men of their name and blood. . . Corn was grown in these vales sufficient upon each estate to furnish bread for each family, no... | |
 | John Hill Burton - Economics - 1849 - 356 pages
...their comfort and content, like the misery of the Irish, had been the creation of centuries ; and ' many of these humble sons of the hills had a consciousness...for more than five hundred years been possessed by their name and blood.' Mr Thornton's plan is not entirely novel. A system not unlike it was proposed... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1879 - 442 pages
...Westmoreland : " Many of these humble sons of the hills had a consciousness that the land which they tilled had for more than five hundred years been possessed by men of the same name and blood." The ship-carpenters in the public yards, my lord's gardener and porter, have... | |
 | John Hudson (of Kendal) - Geology - 1853 - 312 pages
...site of the old one, at the expence of the Rev. T. Vaughan. Neither high-born nobleman, knight, or esquire, was here ; but many of these humble sons...ancient manorial residence in the more open parts of the vales, which, through rights attached to its proprietor, connected the almost visionary mountain... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1853 - 310 pages
...of disability and distress. GENERAL PICTURE OP SOCIETY. 143 Neither high-born nobleman, knight, or esquire, was here; but many of these humble sons of...ancient manorial residence in the more open parts of the vales, which, through rights attached to its proprietor, connected the almost visionary mountain... | |
 | George Newby - English poetry - 1854 - 86 pages
...been imposed and regulated by the mountains which protected it. Neither high-born nobleman, knight, or esquire, was here ; but many of these humble sons...ancient manorial residence in the more open parts of the vales, which, through the rights attached to its proprietor, connected the almost visionary mountain... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - England - 1856 - 200 pages
...Westmoreland, " Many of these humble sons of the hills had a consciousness that the land which they tilled had for more than five hundred years been possessed by men of the same name and blood." The shipcarpenter in the public yards, my lord's gardener and porter, have... | |
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Commonwealth; the members of which existed in the midst of a powerful empire like an ideal society or an organized community, whose constitution had been imposed and regulated by the mountains which protected it. Neither high-born nobleman, knight, nor... 
