| 1798 - 614 Seiten
...communication between the different settlements. In the houses of individuals, were to be found most of the comforts and not a few of the luxuries of life...famine, toil, and difficulty, were now exchanged for those of plenty, case, and pleasure. The quantity of ground at this time in cultivation was 5419 acres;... | |
| G. Paterson - 1811 - 648 Seiten
...stores and granaries abundantly filled at the time. In the houses ot' individuals were to be found most of the comforts, and not a few of the luxuries of life. For these the island was indebted to the communications that it had with India, and other parts of... | |
| American Colonization Society - 1828 - 612 Seiten
...each; and that there exists, throughout the settlements, an abundance, not only of the necessaries, but of the comforts, and not a few of the luxuries of life. The great advantages of this traffic are manifest from the fact, that the Colonial Agent estimates... | |
| 1815 - 560 Seiten
...cultivation; the stores and granaries were abundantly filled ; in the houses of individuals were most of the comforts and not a few of the luxuries of life ; ' and the former years of famine, toil and difficulty were now exchanged for years of plenty, ease and pleasure.'... | |
| George Frederick Pardon - 1840 - 274 Seiten
...the brave. Without such men, willing and able to withstand such dangers, our homes would want many of the comforts, and not a few of the luxuries of life. They bring to our shores the fruits of many lands, and make our fireside-tables the receptacles of... | |
| John McMahon - 1913 - 466 Seiten
...cultivation, and all the stores abundantly filled. In the houses of individuals -were to be found most of the comforts and not a few of the luxuries ' of life, for which we were indebted to our intercourse with India, and our early years of toll, famine and difficulty... | |
| Rand Dotson - 2007 - 372 Seiten
...and company homes, where workmen lived "in comparative ease, enjoying their own firesides and many of the comforts, and not a few of the luxuries, of life," were the main reasons that "disturbances and agitation have been almost unknown on the part of the... | |
| 1888 - 614 Seiten
...requisites of a great ball player. Many of them have wives and children whom they have surrounded with all of the comforts, and not a few of the luxuries of life ; many of them own their own homes, purchased with the proceeds of their own industry and attention... | |
| 1816 - 670 Seiten
...extensive and fertile region, where industrious families may, by labour, acquire independence, with many of the comforts and not a few of the luxuries of life. The book contains, besides what the litlepnge announces, a general view of the state of society and... | |
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