 Our fields are cultivated with a skill unknown elsewhere, with a skill which has extorted rich harvests from moors and morasses. Our houses are filled with conveniences which the kings of former times might have envied.  A History of Engineering - 第 273 頁Arthur Percy Morris Fleming, Harold John Brocklehurst 著 - 1925 - 312 頁完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 724 頁
...But in those things which it belongs to the State to direct, we have no such claim to superiority. Our fields are cultivated with a skill unknown elsewhere, with a skill which has extorted rich harvests from moors and morasses. Our houses are filled with conveniences which the kings... | |
 | Emery Edward Neff - 1926 - 458 頁
...the new industrial civilization with the old governmental machinery which pretended to control it: " Our fields are cultivated with a skill unknown elsewhere, with a skill that has extorted rich harvests from moors and morasses. Our houses are filled with conveniences which... | |
 | Philip Sargant Florence - 1924 - 436 頁
...on the Reform Bill finds an echo in numberless contemporary writings,1 and is no isolated judgment : Our fields are cultivated with a skill unknown elsewhere,...to such perfection. Nowhere does man exercise such dominion over matter. In sixteenth and seventeenth-century England the standard of efficiency was still... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1900 - 804 頁
...But in those things which it belongs to the state to direct, we have no such claim to superiority. Our fields are cultivated with a skill unknown elsewhere, with a skill which has extorted rich harvests from moors and morasses. Our houses are filled with conveniences which the kings... | |
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