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... hundred years it had been the home of the principal tenant and his ancestors - yeomen farmers of the old - fashioned school , with some six hundred acres of land . The present occupants appeared to be an old man of some seventy years of ...
... hundred years it had been the home of the principal tenant and his ancestors - yeomen farmers of the old - fashioned school , with some six hundred acres of land . The present occupants appeared to be an old man of some seventy years of ...
Page 32
... hundred miles from London . There is no other district of equal extent within the same radius of which as much could be said . " Jam pauca aratro jugera regiæ Moles relinquent . " But here all the houses are picturesque , great and ...
... hundred miles from London . There is no other district of equal extent within the same radius of which as much could be said . " Jam pauca aratro jugera regiæ Moles relinquent . " But here all the houses are picturesque , great and ...
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... hundred square miles of downs into wheat - growing ploughed fields had been accomplished . It is chiefly owing to the depression in agricultural produce that there are any downs now , for they merely exist because the tenants have found ...
... hundred square miles of downs into wheat - growing ploughed fields had been accomplished . It is chiefly owing to the depression in agricultural produce that there are any downs now , for they merely exist because the tenants have found ...
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