| Thomas Wright - 1834 - 222 pągines
...a year, or a year at most. And then, said he, we go to the uplands, and fetch another. So that the marrying of wives was reckoned a kind of good farm to them. Nor do the men in these parts hold it out as in other countries, for we seldom meet with very ancient people among the... | |
| Anna Maria Hall - 818 pągines
...but they brought their wives from the healthy uplands, and the latter rarely survived above a year, " so that marrying of wives was reckoned a kind of good farm to them ! " (on account of the dowries they brought, we presume.) High Suffolk, he says, produces "the best... | |
| 1896 - 276 pągines
...complexion, got an ague or two, and seldom held it above half a year, or a year at most. "And then," said he, " we go to the uplands again and fetch another...of wives was reckoned a kind of good farm to them. It is true the fellow told this in a kind of drollery and mirth, but the fact, for all that, is certainly... | |
| Daniel Defoe - 1927 - 494 pągines
...with very antient People among the Poor, as in other Places we do, fo, take it one with another, not one half of the Inhabitants are Natives of the Place; but fuch as from other Countries, or in other Parts of this County fettle here for the Advantage of good Farms;... | |
| Daniel Defoe - 1927 - 408 pągines
...complexion, got an ague or two, and seldom held it above half a year, or a year at most; and then, said he, we go to the uplands again, and fetch another; so that marrying of wives was reckon'da kind of good farm to them : It is true, the fellow told this in a kind of drollery, and mirth;... | |
| 1889 - 630 pągines
...Complexion, got an Ague or two, and seldom held it above half a Year or a Year at most ; And then, said he, we go to the Uplands, again, and fetch another ; so that marrying of Wives was reckon'da kind of good Farm to them It is true, the Fellow told this in a kind of Drollery and Mirth... | |
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