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... improvements of modern years have been no where more apparent , than in the many plantations which have been reared in ... improvement in the aspect of the Fens , is the advancement that has been made in the art of drainage by which all ...
... improvements of modern years have been no where more apparent , than in the many plantations which have been reared in ... improvement in the aspect of the Fens , is the advancement that has been made in the art of drainage by which all ...
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... improved upon their ancient dreariness ; but even here cultivation has done much , and scarcely a rood of land is left to waste or indolence . * Instead of the miserable straw - roofed cabin of the ancient fenman , which had all the ...
... improved upon their ancient dreariness ; but even here cultivation has done much , and scarcely a rood of land is left to waste or indolence . * Instead of the miserable straw - roofed cabin of the ancient fenman , which had all the ...
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... improving this tract of of country to the most important period of the early History of the Fens , -the time of the Romans . This celebrated people , having raised themselves from barbaric hardihood to civilized strength and mag ...
... improving this tract of of country to the most important period of the early History of the Fens , -the time of the Romans . This celebrated people , having raised themselves from barbaric hardihood to civilized strength and mag ...
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... improvement and security of its forsaken marshes , and desolate wastes . Had the chronicles of this age reached us in their undisguised and powerful truth , we know not what could have been more interesting to the moralist or the his ...
... improvement and security of its forsaken marshes , and desolate wastes . Had the chronicles of this age reached us in their undisguised and powerful truth , we know not what could have been more interesting to the moralist or the his ...
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... improvements which the Romans had completed , gradually decayed . Engaged in continual warfare with their encroaching lords , the inhabitants of the country had little opportunity or inclination to attend to the drainage or improvement ...
... improvements which the Romans had completed , gradually decayed . Engaged in continual warfare with their encroaching lords , the inhabitants of the country had little opportunity or inclination to attend to the drainage or improvement ...
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acres act of parliament afterwards almshouses amongst ancient annual appears appointed attended Bailiff beauty Bedford Bedford Level Corporation bishop of Ely Bridge building built called Capital Burgesses Castle channel character charity charter christian church Clarkson consequence considerable Corporation Crowland death ditto drainage Edward elected Emneth England enquiry erected feelings Fens flood frequently funds gave gent grammar school Guild Guyhirn Hall Henry Holy Trinity important improvement inhabitants inscription interest Isle of Ely John King kingdom land Leverington Lincolnshire Lynn marshes ment mind monument nature Nene opinion Ouse outfall parish passed period persons poor present principal proceedings purpose records reign religious rents repair Richard river river Nene river Welland Robert Romans Saxon scene Sluice society spirit supposed Thomas tion Town Bailiff town of Wisbech trustees Usill vicar waters Watson Whittlesea wild William
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Page 11 - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast— The desert and illimitable air— Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near.
Page 42 - THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave. And spread the roof above them, — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.
Page 20 - Such is that room which one rude beam divides, And naked rafters form the sloping sides; Where the vile bands that bind the thatch are seen, And lath and mud are all that lie between; Save one dull pane, that, coarsely patched, gives way To the rude tempest, yet excludes the day: Here on a matted flock, with dust o'erspread.
Page 68 - To men of other minds my fancy flies, Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies : Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land, And, sedulous to stop the coming tide, Lifts the tall rampire's artificial pride.
Page 118 - DAY set on Norham's castled steep. And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep. And Cheviot's mountains lone : The battled towers, the donjon keep, The loop-hole grates where captives weep. The flanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone.
Page 191 - NO man shall teach either in public school, or private house, but such as shall be allowed by the Bishop of the diocese, or Ordinary of the place, under his hand and seal, being found meet as well for his learning and dexterity in teaching, as for sober and honest conversation, and also for right understanding of God's true religion...
Page 12 - Soon, o'er thy sheltered nest. Thou'rt gone, the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form; yet, on my heart Deeply hath sunk the lesson thou hast given, And shall not soon depart. He who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight, 30 In the long way that I must tread alone Will lead my steps aright.
Page 11 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, Or where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean side ? There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, — The desert and...
Page 69 - While the pent ocean, rising o'er the pile, Sees an amphibious world beneath him smile ; The slow canal, the yellow-blossom'd vale, The willow-tufted bank, the gliding sail, The crowded mart, the cultivated plain, A new creation rescued from his reign.
Page 10 - Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding bittern guards its nest; Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.