 | William Wordsworth - Alps - 1823 - 166 pages
...an ideal society or an organized community, whose constitution had been imposed and regulated by the mountains which protected it. Neither highborn nobleman,...hundred years been possessed by men of their name and blood;—and venerable was the transition, when a curious traveller, descending from the heart of the... | |
 | John Hudson (of Kendal.), William Wordsworth - Geology - 1842 - 336 pages
...an ideal society or an organized community, whose constitution had been imposed and regulated by the mountains which protected it. Neither high-born nobleman,...years been possessed by men of their name and blood; and venerable was the transition, when a carious traveller, descending from the heart of the mountains,... | |
 | 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,...years been possessed by men of their name and blood; and venerable was the transition, when a curious traveller, descending from the heart of the mountains,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Business & Economics - 1848 - 622 pages
...ideal society, or an organized community, whose constitution had been imposed and regulated by the mountains which protected it. Neither high-born nobleman,...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 Stuart Mill - Economics - 1852 - 672 pages
...ideal society, or an organized community, whose constitution had been imposed and regulated by the mountains which protected it . Neither high-born nobleman,...and tilled had for more than five hundred years been posownersof land being " landlords," a term to which " tenants" is always understood as a correlative.... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1853 - 310 pages
...site of the old one, at the expence of the Rev. T. Vaughan. Neither high-born nohleman, knight, or esquire, was here; but many of these humble sons of...years been possessed by men of their name and blood; and venerable was the transition, when a curious traveller, descending from the heart of the mountains,... | |
 | George Newby - English poetry - 1854 - 86 pages
...regulated by the mountains which protected it. Neither high-born nobleman, knight, or esquire, was here j but many of these humble sons of the hills had a consciousness...years been possessed by men of their name and blood; and venerable was the transition, when a curious traveller, descending from the heart of the mountains,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - England - 1856 - 200 pages
...Antiquity of usage is sanction enough. Wordsworth says of the small freeholders of 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - England - 1856 - 200 pages
...Antiquity of usage is sanction enough. Wordsworth says of the small freeholders of 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - England - 1857 - 326 pages
...Antiquity of usage is sanction enough. Wordsworth, says of the small freeholders of 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... | |
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mountains which protected it. Neither high-born nobleman, knight, nor esquire was here; but many of these humble sons of the hills had a consciousness that the land which they walked over and tilled had for more than five hundred years been possessed... 
