 Versailles. 1788 THE long journey I had last year taken in France suggested a variety of reflections on the agriculture and on the sources and progress of national prosperity in that kingdom; in spite of myself, these ideas fermented in my mind; and while...  Studies of a Biographer - Page 204by Leslie Stephen - 1899Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Temple (miscellaneous writer.) - 1865 - 486 pages
...happy farmhouse home at Bradfield, in Suffolk, where, says the honest farmer, " I have more pleasure in giving my little girl a French doll than in viewing Versailles." Young's two quarto volumes of his travels were published in 1792 — a marvellous monument of individual... | |
 | Arthur Young - 1889 - 472 pages
...ask what nation this family was of. — Dover — London — Bradfield ; — and have more pleasure in giving my little girl a French doll, than in viewing Versailles. 1788.] NEWCHATEL. Ill 1788. THE long journey I had last year taken in France, suggested a variety of... | |
 | Arthur Young - 1892 - 452 pages
...ask what nation this family was of. — Dover — London — Bradfield ; — and have more pleasure in giving my little girl a French doll, than in viewing Versailles. 1788. T^HE long journey I had last year taken in France, sugJ gested a variety of reflections on the... | |
 | Arthur Young - 1898 - 518 pages
...'November 8. — Wait at Desseins three days for a wind, Dover, London, Bradfield, and have more pleasure in giving my little girl a French doll than in viewing Versailles.' 2 The journey to France cost me 118Z. 15s. 2dL Things bought, 20Z. 17s. ; books, 81 16s. 6d. This year... | |
 | Arthur Young - 1906 - 690 pages
...ask what nation this family was of. — Dover — London — Bradfield ; — and have more pleasure in giving my little girl a French doll, than in viewing Versailles. 1788.] NEWCHATEL. Ill 1788. THE long journey I had last year taken in France, suggested a variety of... | |
 | Arthur Young - 1915 - 398 pages
...ask what nation this family was of. — Dover — London — Bradfield; — and have more pleasure in giving my little girl a French doll than in viewing Versailles. 1788 THE long journey I had last year taken in France suggested a variety of reflections on the agriculture... | |
 | 1896 - 926 pages
...open-hearted, cordial ways made him acceptable in society, which he heartily enjoyed. But his life was soon darkened. He was tenderly attached to his youngest...In France, "In giving my little girl a French doll tuan in viewing A7ersailles," and "viewing Versailles" was no small pleasure to him. Her death in 1797... | |
 | Richard Stone - 1997 - 526 pages
...manufacturers.' On 8 November he is back at Calais and a few days later he arrives home, 'and have more pleasure in giving my little girl a French doll, than in viewing Versailles'. 5. The Second Continental Tour Young's second visit to France, undertaken with the intention of touring... | |
 | Arthur Young - 1929 - 496 pages
...not ask what nation this family was of. Dover — London — Bradfield; — and have more pleasure in giving my little girl a French doll, than in viewing Versailles. JOURNAL (continued) 1788 1 he long journey I had last year taken in France suggested a variety of reflections... | |
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