France of To-day: A Survey Comparative and RetrospectiveLovell, Coryell, 1892 - 287 стор. |
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¹ See Appendix acres Aigues-Mortes alike Alsace Alsatian amid ancient Anjou Arthur Young artisan Auvergne Auxonne Barham Zincke beautiful blouse blue Catholic Champagnole Charente charming Châteauroux chef-lieu church Citeaux corn Côte d'Or cottage country-folks crops cultivated curé Dijon Dollfus English enormous eyes farm farmer flowers Fontenay-le-Comte French French peasant French town garden girls hand handsome hectares hundred industrial Jura labor lady land less little town live Loire Lourdes Lycée M. L. Bocquet manufacture métayage millions Mulhouse neighbors never Nîmes Niort owner Paris pastor peasant property phylloxera picturesque population possessing Protestant Protestantism Prussian Pyrenees Quissac railway region region of France Revolution rich river ruined rural scene scenery schools seen side social soil Sunday things thousand throughout France tion tourist turn Ultramontane vast Vendée vignes village vine vineyard Vosges wine women
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Сторінка 313 - This woman, at no great distance might have been taken for sixty or seventy, her figure was so bent, and her face so furrowed and hardened by labour — but she said she was only twenty-eight.
Сторінка 57 - I was much struck with a large tract of land, seemingly nothing but huge rocks; yet most of it enclosed and planted with the most industrious attention. Every man has an olive, a mulberry, an almond, or a peach tree, and vines scattered...
Сторінка 313 - An activity has been here, that has swept away all difficulties before it, and has clothed the very rocks with verdure. It would be a disgrace to common sense to ask the cause; the enjoyment of property must have done it. Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.
Сторінка 7 - A small proprietor, however, who knows every part of his little territory, who views it with all the affection which property, especially small property, naturally inspires, and who upon that account takes pleasure not only in cultivating but in adorning it, is generally of all improvers the most industrious, the most intelligent, and the most successful.
Сторінка 57 - ... tree, and vines scattered among them; so that the whole ground is covered with the oddest mixture of these plants and bulging rocks, that can be conceived. The inhabitants of this village deserve encouragement for their industry; and if I were a French minister they should have it. They would soon turn all the deserts around them into gardens.
Сторінка 78 - ... plain- one of the richest in Europe, which extends on one side to the sea, and in front to the Pyrenees ; whose towering masses, heaped one upon another in a stupendous manner, and covered with snow, offer a variety of lights and shades from indented forms and the immensity of their projections.
Сторінка 67 - I crossed, the ride has been the most interesting which I have taken in France; the efforts of industry the most vigorous; the animation the most lively. An activity has been here, that has swept away all difficulties before it, and has clothed the very rocks with verdure. It would be a disgrace-to common sense to ask the cause; the enjoyment of property must have done it.
Сторінка 78 - This prospect, which contains a semicircle of a hundred miles diameter, has an oceanic vastness, in which the eye loses itself; an almost boundless scene of cultivation; an animated, but confused mass of infinitely varied parts — melting gradually into the distant obscure from which emerges the amazing frame of the Pyrenees, rearing their silvered heads far above the clouds.
Сторінка 81 - Lourde, where is a castle on a rock, garrisoned for the mere purpose of keeping state prisoners, sent hither by lettres de cachet. Seven or eight are known to be here at present; thirty have been here at a time; and many for life — torn by the relentless hand of jealous tyranny from the bosom of domestic comfort; from wives, children, friends, and hurried for crimes unknown to themselves — more probably for virtues — to languish in this detested abode of misery — and die of despair. Oh, liberty!...
Сторінка 249 - It is a spot which has all the solemnity, with none of the savageness, of the Alps ; where there is a sense of a great power beginning to be manifested in the earth, and of a deep and majestic concord in the rise of the long low lines of piny hills ; the first utterance of those mighty mountain symphonies, soon to be more loudly lifted and wildly broken along the battlements of the Alps.