 | Guy Stevens Callender - United States - 1909 - 852 pages
...find ' one only master grasps the whole domain ' that once furnished happy homes for a dozen white families. Indeed, a country in its infancy, where,...freshness of its agricultural glory is gone ; the vigor of its youth is extinct, and the spirit of desolation seems brooding over it." 1The following... | |
 | Ulrich Bonnell Phillips - Plantation life - 1918 - 560 pages
...will find 'one only master grasps the whole domain' that once furnished happy homes for a dozen white families. Indeed, a country in its infancy, where...the freshness of its agricultural glory is gone, the vigor of its youth is extinct, and the spirit of desolation seems brooding over it." T The census returns... | |
 | Ulrich Bonnell Phillips - Plantation life - 1918 - 558 pages
...will find 'one only master grasps the whole domain' that once furnished happy homes for a dozen white families. Indeed, a country in its infancy, where...already exhibiting the painful signs of senility and decayjJEBflront in Virginia and the Carolinao ; the f reshncjs of its agrit-tiltm-al glory is gone,... | |
 | William Chandler Bagley - Agriculture - 1942 - 128 pages
...fertile, now unfenced, abandoned and covered with those evil harbingers, foxtail and broomsedge. . . . Indeed, a country in its infancy, where fifty years...and decay, apparent in Virginia and the Carolinas.' ' 45 In a letter to the American Cotton Planter, Daniel Pratt of Prattville, Alabama, raised the question:... | |
 | Roger G. Kennedy - History - 2003 - 376 pages
...lay "fields once fertile, now unfenced, abandoned and covered with . . . foxtail and broomsedge. ... [A] country in its infancy, where, fifty years ago,...and decay, apparent in Virginia and the Carolinas." 17 Moving westward, the planters came to Mississippi, where John Hebron Moore—the magisterial agricultural... | |
 | Roger G. Kennedy - History - 2003 - 376 pages
...and covered with . . . foxtail and broomsedge. ... [A] country in its infancy, where, fifty years 22 ago, scarce a forest tree had been felled by the axe...of senility and decay, apparent in Virginia and the Carolinas."17 Moving westward, the planters came to Mississippi, where John Hebron Moore — the magisterial... | |
 | Henry Charles Carey - United States - 1848 - 970 pages
...will find ' one only master grasps the whole domain' that once furnished happy homes for a dozen white families. Indeed, a country in its infancy, where,...and decay apparent in Virginia and the Carolinas." — (,'. G. Clay. Here is an increase, in the quantity requiring to be transported, amounting to more... | |
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... that once furnished happy homes for a dozen white families. Indeed, a country in its infancy, where fifty years ago scarce a forest tree had been felled by the axe of the pioneer, is already exhibiting the painful signs of senility and decay apparent... 
