My father was a yeoman and had no lands of his own ; only he had a farm of three or four pounds by the year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep and my mother milked thirty kine... On Sir Francis Burdett's motion for parliamentary reform.-On the conduct of ... - Strana 173 autor/autoři: Robert Southey - 1832 Úplné zobrazení -
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