 | sir James Edward Smith - 1807 - 388 pages
...manufacturers and merchants" are generally against wars. " What have kings, and ministers, and ' parliaments, parliaments, and states, to answer for their prejudices,...equally detestable prejudices of a feudal nobility !" p. 84. " The destruction of rank" is said (p. 151) "not to imply ruin." The author, though generally... | |
 | Charles Richard Weld - Brittany (France) - 1856 - 390 pages
...Brest: — "One-third of what I have seen of this part of the province seems uncultivated and nearly all in misery. What have kings and ministers, and parliaments,...starving through the execrable maxims of despotism and the equally detestable prejudices of a feudal nobility ! "* This was written when the Seigneurs... | |
 | Henri Van Laun - French literature - 1877 - 500 pages
...cried out, " Oh ! if I were the legislator of France for a day, I would make such great lords skip!"3 "What have kings, and ministers, and parliaments, and states to answer for, seeing millions of hands that would be industrious, yet idle and starving, through the execrable maxims... | |
 | Arthur Young - Agriculture - 1889 - 472 pages
...than obliged. One third of what I have seen of this province seems uncultivated, and nearly all of it in misery. What have kings, and ministers, and parliaments,...despotism, or the equally detestable prejudices of a feudal nobility.2 Sleep at the lion d'or* at Montauban, an abominable hole. — 20 miles. The 6th. The same... | |
 | Arthur Young - Agriculture - 1892 - 452 pages
...obliged. One third of what I have seen of this province seems uncultivartetl, and n early "aU of it in misery. What have kings, and ministers, and parliaments,...despotism, or the equally detestable prejudices of a feudal nobility.2 Sleep at the lion d'or, at Montauban, an abominable hole. — 20 miles. The 6th. The same... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1897 - 602 pages
...than obliged. One third of what I have seen of this province seems uncultivated, and nearly all of it in misery. What have kings, and ministers, and parliaments,...equally detestable prejudices of a feudal nobility! Sleep at the Lion d'Or, at Montauban, an abominable hole. — 20 miles. The 6th. — The same inclosed... | |
 | Henry George - Economics - 1905 - 462 pages
...after the first mutterings of the Revolution had begun : — Montauban-de-Bretagne, Sept. 5, 1788. — One third of what I have seen of this province seems...equally detestable prejudices of a feudal nobility. Nantes, Sept. 21, 1788. — Mon dieu! said I to myself, do all the wastes, the deserts, the heath,... | |
 | James Harvey Robinson - Europe - 1906 - 616 pages
...than obliged. One third of what I have seen of this province seems uncultivated, and nearly all of it in misery. What have kings, and ministers, and parliaments,...equally detestable prejudices of a feudal nobility. Sleep at the Lion d' Or, at Montauban, an abominable hole. 423 In the great cities I go to see what... | |
 | Arthur Young - Agriculture - 1906 - 690 pages
...than obliged. One third of what I have seen of this province seems uncultivated, and nearly all of it in misery. What have kings, and ministers, and parliaments,...despotism, or the equally detestable prejudices of a feudal nobility.2 Sleep at the lion d'or, at Montauban, an abominable hole. — 20 miles. The 6th. The same... | |
 | Arthur Young - Agriculture - 1906 - 474 pages
...than obliged. One third of what I have seen of this province seems uncultivated, and nearly all of it in misery. What have kings, and ministers, and parliaments,...despotism, or the equally detestable prejudices of a feudal nobility.2 Sleep at the lion d'or, at Montauban, an abominable hole. — 20 miles. The 6th. The same... | |
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I gave them any thing seemed more surprised than obliged. One third of what I have seen of this province seems uncultivated, and nearly all of it in misery. What have kings, and ministers, and parliaments, and states, to answer for their prejudices, seeing... 
