The History of Civilization, Volume 4J. Munsell, 1869 - Civilization |
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Page 386 - no goods or commodities whatever, of the growth, production, or manufacture of Asia, Africa, or America, should be imported either into England or Ireland or any of the plantations of Great Britain, except in Britishbuilt ships, owned by British subjects, and of which the master and three-fourths of the crew belonged to that country...
Page 359 - Baltic ;SM the German princes brought those of the interior under their immediate control, in order to secure their own part in the profit from their commerce. Charles V. separated the rich cities of his Netherlands from the League ; and, finally, the discovery of America, and the sea-passage around the Cape of Good Hope to Hindostan, produced a total revolution in the commercial relations, by bringing other nations, Spaniards and Portuguese, on the world's scene. All these causes combined contributed...
Page 432 - Bretagne from hogs reared on acorns, and fattened with Indian corn. — The French implements of agriculture are generally rude and unwieldy, and the operations of husbandry unskilfully performed.— The vine is cultivated in France in fields and on terraced hills, in a way different from that which prevails elsewhere. It is planted in hills, like Indian corn, kept low, and managed like a plantation of raspberries. The white mulberry tree is very extensively cultivated for feeding the silk-worm....
Page 428 - ... as early as March), but is conducted between the narrow ridges of corn-lands, in the hollows between drilled crops, among vines, or to flood lands, to the depth of a foot or more, which are sown with rice. Water is also used for depositing a surface of mud, in some places where it is charged with that material. The details of watering, for these and other purposes, are given in various works, and collected in those of professor Re. In general, watered lands let at one third higher price than...
Page 60 - Thus far it is certain that they do not differ in the smallest degree, either in their abilities, their manner of life, or their industrial attainments, from the people who were provided with metals, but that in the whole phenomena of lake dwellings, from their very beginning to the end of their existence, a gradual, quiet, peaceful development may be observed.
Page 386 - British ships, or in such as were the real property of the people of the country or place in which the goods were produced, or •from which they could only be or [*169 were most usually exported.
Page 429 - They are tied up in stalls, bled once or twice, cleaned and rubbed with oil, afterwards combed and brushed twice a day. Their food in summer is clover or other green herbage ; in winter, a mixture of elm-leaves, clover-hay, and pulverized walnut-cake, over which boiling water is poured, and bran and salt added.
Page 351 - ... arduous undertakings. The final act of the Union was drawn up at Cologne, in 1364, and signed by all the members. The main object of the League, therein expressed, was to protect the confederated cities and their property from foreign aggression ; to guard, extend, and monopolize their commerce ; to manage the administration of justice within the limits of the Union ; to prevent quarrels and acts of injustice by confederate diets and courts of arbitration, and to maintain the rights and immunities...
Page 386 - British subjects, or in such ships as were the real property of the people of the country or place in which the goods were produced, or from which they could only be, or most usually were, exported
Page 54 - Of the human remains the skulls are small and round, and have a prominent ridge over the sockets of the eyes, showing that the ancient race was of small stature with round heads and overhanging eyebrows; in short, they bore a considerable resemblance to the modern Laplanders.