Littell's Living Age, Volume 174Littell, Son and Company, 1887 |
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Page 120
... land and grey land , upland and bottom , turned and heaved unceasingly beneath the recklessly driven ploughs . Year after year the axe rang , and the toppling trees crashed for new tobacco ground . The negroes sang and shouted , and ...
... land and grey land , upland and bottom , turned and heaved unceasingly beneath the recklessly driven ploughs . Year after year the axe rang , and the toppling trees crashed for new tobacco ground . The negroes sang and shouted , and ...
Page 459
... land is nationalized - never was anything else - and I should be very sorry to see a change made in the arrangement . It works sufficiently well , just as half - a - dozen other tenures of landed property work sufficiently well , but ...
... land is nationalized - never was anything else - and I should be very sorry to see a change made in the arrangement . It works sufficiently well , just as half - a - dozen other tenures of landed property work sufficiently well , but ...
Page 580
... land ( and property in those days was practically land ) till the reign of Henry VIII . , and did not become really unrestricted before the time of Charles II . So again the power of alien- ing in mortmain was limited from the very ...
... land ( and property in those days was practically land ) till the reign of Henry VIII . , and did not become really unrestricted before the time of Charles II . So again the power of alien- ing in mortmain was limited from the very ...
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