 | Nathaniel Kent - 1796 - 264 pages
...vigour of their exertions. If Lewis XIV. eager to have his kingdom known, and poffefled of boundlefs power to effect it, failed fo much in the attempt,...pofterity * ; it will not be thought ftrange that a Board, * See Voltaire's Age of Lewis XIV. vol. ii. p. 127, 128, edit. 1752. The following extraft from that... | |
 | Great Britain. Board of Agriculture, Nathaniel Kent - Agriculture - 1796 - 278 pages
...exertions. If Lewis XIV. eager to have his kingdom known, and poflefled of boundlefs power to effefl: it, failed fo much in the attempt, that of all the...one was fo defcribed as to fecure the approbation of poflerity *; it will not be thought ftrange that a Board, * See Voltaire's Age of Lewis XIV. vol. ii.... | |
 | 1796 - 816 pages
...eager to have hi» • kingdcin known, and poírdíed bf boundlefs power to е<теЛ it, failed io much in the attempt, that, of all the provinces in his kingdom, only one was i.> deicribed as to fccure the approbation of poftenty, it will not be thought ftrange that a Board,... | |
 | 1803 - 412 pages
...Louis XIV. eager to have his kingdom known, and possessed of boundless power to efFeft it, failed so much in the attempt, that of all the provinces in his kingdom, only one was so described as to secure the approbation of posterity*, it will not be thought strange that a Board,... | |
 | Arthur Young, Board of Agriculture (Great Britain) - Agriculture - 1804 - 440 pages
...Louis XIV. eager to have his kingdom known, and possessed of boundless power to effect it, failed so much in the attempt, that of all the provinces in his kingdom, only one was so described as to secure the approbation of posterity*, it will not be thought strange that a Board,... | |
 | Arthur Young, Board of Agriculture (Great Britain) - Agriculture - 1804 - 604 pages
...Louis XIV. eager to have his kingdom known, and possessed of boundless power to effec"l it, failed so much in the attempt, that of all the provinces in his kingdom, only one was so described as to secure the approbation of posterity *, it will not be thought strange that a Board,... | |
 | Great Britain. Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1805 - 344 pages
...Louis XIV. eager to have his kingdom known, and possessed of boundless power to effect it, failed so- much in the attempt, that of all the provinces in. his kingdom, only one was so described as to secure the approbation of posterity *, it will not be thought strange that a Board,... | |
 | George Robertson, Board of Agriculture (Great Britain) - Agriculture - 1810 - 624 pages
...Lewis XTV. eager to have his kingdom known, and possessed of boundless power to effect it, failed so much in the attempt, that of all the provinces in his kingdom, only one was so described, as to secure the approbation of posterity*; it will not be thought strange, that a Board... | |
 | William Pitt - Agriculture - 1810 - 478 pages
...Lewis XIV. eager to have his kingdom known, and possessed of boundless power to effect it, failed so much in the attempt, that, of all the provinces in his kingdom, only one was so described as to secure the approbotion of posterity ;* it will not be thought strange * See Voltaire's... | |
 | Board of Agriculture (Great Britain) - Agriculture - 1813 - 268 pages
...exertions. If Lewis XIV. eager to have his kingdom known, and poflefled of boundlefs power to efFeft it, failed fo much in the attempt, that of all the...pofterity * ; it will not be thought ftrange that a Board, * See Voltaire's Age of Lewis XIV. vol. ii. p. 127, 128, edit. 1752. The following extract from that... | |
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PERFECTION in such inquiries is not in the power of any body of men to obtain at once, whatever may be the extent of their views or the vigour of their exertions. If Louis XIV. 