10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FARMER-GENERALSHIP»
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farmer-generalship in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine
... with all her heart, if that proposition suited him, an engagement to marry
Adelaide, and to assure to whomever should ask her hand the first vacant farmer-
generalship. I started at once to announce to my father an event that filled him
with joy.
2
The Century: A Popular Quarterly
... with all her heart, if that proposition suited him, an engagement to marry
Adelaide, and to assure to whomever should ask her hand the first vacant farmer-
generalship. I started at once to announce to my father an event that filled him
with joy.
When / / \ Quesnay was offered a farmer-generalship of the taxes for / his son, he
said, "No; let the welfare of my children I be bound up with the public prosperity,"
and made his son a farmer of the land instead. In Quesnay's rooms in the palace
...
4
appleton's new practical cyclopedia
Paris; became an associate of the Academy, 1768; obtained a farmer
generalship, 1769, in order to increase his income, his expenditures in chemical
research requiring a large outlay of money; discovered the composition of water,
1783, and ...
In the meantime, M. d'Etoilea was compensated for his widowhood by a farmer-
generalship, and afterwards by the place offermier des pastes. He frequently
boasted of the King's protection. When he required anything he grew
troublesome, ...
George Augustus Sala, Edmund Hodgson Yates, 1872
6
The National Magazine: Devoted to Literature, Art, and Religion
... it a good thing. But no flagrant charge of impropriety was ever brought against
the Lavoisiers. People shook their heads sometimes, and smiled, and remarked
that farmer-generalship -was a fine trade—they wished they had the like; but ...
Abel Stevens, James Floy, 1857
7
Hereditary genius: an inquiry into its laws and consequences
23 he had obtained a farmer-generalship in France. Became a refugee in
England and elsewhere. He married a charming lady — Mdlle. de Ligueville,
whom, it is said, both Franklin and Turgot desired to marry in her widowhood. He
had two ...
People shook their heads sometimes, and smiled, and remarked that farmer-
generalship was a fine trade — they wished they had the like; but if the old
Lavoisier had been a little close, young Antoine Laurent, when the office
devolved on him, ...
9
A Missing Chapter of the Indian Mutiny
The farmer-generalship (Ijaradar) of the Mundisore district was hereditary in his
family for about a century ; but the office "was abolished and the district taken
under Khalsa (State) management about twenty years before the insurrection in ...
Charles Lionel Showers, 1888
10
The Old Chest; Or, The Journal of a Family of the French ...
... he took part i:i their speculations, ho conducted his own with much skill ; and, at
the age of thirty-five, being master of a large fortune, he obtained the farmer-
generalship of salt works, and he married the daughter of a leading financier.
