The Journal Of The Royal Agriculture Society Of England Vol 69 1908

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ISBN 13 : 9781528367639
Total Pages : 636 pages
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Download or read book The Journal of the Royal Agriculture Society of England, Vol. 69 (Classic Reprint) written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Journal of the Royal Agriculture Society of England, Vol. 69 Just about the time Of the Royal Agricultural Society's great Jubilee Show in Windsor Great Park, in June, 1889, as one outcome of which all those associated with the Society had to accustom themselves to addressing Colonel Kingscote as Sir Nigel, and Mr. Wilson as Sir Jacob, a somewhat remarkable man (now dead) was co-opted on the Council. He had been connected with a firm of agricultural engineers in earlier life, and was learned in all matters of farm machinery; but he had no taste whatever for live stock, and was no respecter of persons, however highly placed. He had, however, a great admiration for character, had read widely and deeply, and had fresh and piquant views on a great variety of subjects. He was a most useful man in committee, Often interpolating some shrewd remark which summarised the situation, but he contented himself at the Council meetings with watching and observing the idiosyncrasies of his colleagues. One day he suddenly said to me, I want you to tell me the secret of the influence exercised by Sir Nigel Kingscote at Hanover Square. He cannot be said to be a good speaker he is not so ready in the cut and thrust of debate as others holding opposite views; I should hardly call him farsighted or clever; and yet he always seems to dominate the Council. Why is this The best answer I could give on the spur of the moment was that Sir Nigel was a great gentleman, courteous and considerate to all, both high and low, a man of the highest honour integrity and simplicity of character, who said and did what he felt to be right without pose or regard for after consequences to himself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.