Over-population, and Its Remedy: Or, An Inquiry Into the Extent and Causes of the Distress Prevailing Among the Labouring Classes of the British Islands, and Into the Means of Remedying itLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846 - 446 páginas |
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... less to construct a theory of his own , than to collect and arrange the ideas of others , to work out their hints , to reconcile their inconsis- tencies , and to form a regular and practicable scheme out of their scattered and ...
... less to construct a theory of his own , than to collect and arrange the ideas of others , to work out their hints , to reconcile their inconsis- tencies , and to form a regular and practicable scheme out of their scattered and ...
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... less lasting than severe . Now , if this be the condition of the working class , it is no proof of national prosperity that the rest of the people are wealthy and civilised . A nation may be pre - eminent in power and grandeur , and ...
... less lasting than severe . Now , if this be the condition of the working class , it is no proof of national prosperity that the rest of the people are wealthy and civilised . A nation may be pre - eminent in power and grandeur , and ...
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... less striking variations than wages in other departments of industry , they do . really vary very materially , not only in different counties but in different parts of the same county . It may seem strange , that where wages are un ...
... less striking variations than wages in other departments of industry , they do . really vary very materially , not only in different counties but in different parts of the same county . It may seem strange , that where wages are un ...
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... less than 9s . even in winter , nor less than 128. at other seasons ; while , if task - work be taken into the account , a man's average earnings through- out the year are from 13s . to 16s . 6d . a week , to which his wife may , at ...
... less than 9s . even in winter , nor less than 128. at other seasons ; while , if task - work be taken into the account , a man's average earnings through- out the year are from 13s . to 16s . 6d . a week , to which his wife may , at ...
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... less than 4s . 3d . a week , which , added to 14s . of wages , will make a weekly income of 18s . 3d . altogether . In some parts of Lin- colnshire , labourers are sometimes hired by the year , and at Kilstern , where this seems to be a ...
... less than 4s . 3d . a week , which , added to 14s . of wages , will make a weekly income of 18s . 3d . altogether . In some parts of Lin- colnshire , labourers are sometimes hired by the year , and at Kilstern , where this seems to be a ...
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Over-population and Its Remedy: An Inquiry Into the Distress Prevailing ... William Thomas Thornton Vista de fragmentos - 1971 |
Over-population and Its Remedy: An Inquiry Into the Distress Prevailing ... William Thomas Thornton Vista de fragmentos - 1971 |
Términos y frases comunes
able able-bodied abundance acres additional afford agricultural labourers allotment amount annual average better cause cheap clothing comfort conacre condition consequence considerable corn corn laws cottage crofters cultivation demand destitution distress districts Dorsetshire earnings effect employed employment enable England equally estates excessive expense farmers farms foreign free trade greater habits Highland improvement income increase industry inhabitants Ireland Irish labouring class land landlords latter least Leinster less Lincolnshire live livelihood manufactures marriage means of subsistence ment misery Munster neighbours Norway number of persons obtain occupiers over-population parish paupers peasantry Poor Law poor's rates population portion possession potatoes poverty present probably procure produce profit proportion proprietors provisions quantity raised rate of wages reduced relief rent scarcely Scotland serfs servants shillings soil Statute of Labourers Stockport sufficient supply tenants tillage tion towns tural villenage waste land wealth weavers week whole workhouse
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Página 209 - That call'd them from their native walks away ; When the poor exiles, every pleasure past, Hung round the bowers, and fondly...
Página 209 - The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that many poor supplied ; Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds, Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds...
Página 209 - Where then, ah! where, shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride? If to some common's fenceless limits strayed, He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, And even the bare-worn common is denied.
Página 260 - ... wretched, nasty cabins, without chimney, window, or doorshut ; even worse than those of the savage Americans, and wholly unfit for the making merchantable butter, cheese, or the manufactures of woollen, linen, or leather.
Página 205 - ... would be your answer to the people of Washington, Oregon, and California to that problem? Mr. BOWER. First of all, not all of the 28,000 come from the Pacific Coast States. Only half of them probably. Senator BONE. Well, seasonal workers. They don't come from Idaho and Utah and Montana. Mr. BOWER. There is only a certain amount of work to be done and the problem is how to divide it. Senator BONE. That is the problem in this whole thing. If we take it from one fellow we make a problem for the...
Página 86 - They are a frugal, industrious, and intelligent race, inhabiting a district for the most part inferior in natural fertility to the southern portion of Ireland ; but cultivating it better, and paying higher rents in proportion to the quality of the land, notwithstanding the higher rate of wages.
Página 86 - ... day ; yet the peasantry are a robust, active, and athletic race, capable of great exertion ; often exposed to great privations ; ignorant, but eager for instruction ; and readily trained, under judicious management, to habits of order and steady industry.
Página 109 - These are, it appears, the beggars' houses : any one may build a lodge against that wall, rent-free ; and such places were never seen ! As for drawing them, it was in vain to try ; one might as well make a sketch of a bundle of rags. An ordinary pig-sty in England is really more comfortable. Most of them were not six feet long or five feet high, built of stones huddled together, a hole being left for the people to creep iu at, a ruined thatch to keep out some little portion of the rain.
Página 192 - I'll therefore buy some cottage near his manor, Which done, I'll make my men break ope his fences, Ride o'er his standing corn, and in the night Set fire on his barns, or break his cattle's legs. These trespasses draw on suits, and suits' expenses, Which I can spare, but will soon beggar him.
Página 192 - I'll make my men break ope his fences, Ride o'er his standing corn, and in the night Set fire on his barns, or break his cattle's legs. These trespasses draw on suits, and suits' expenses, Which I can spare, but will soon beggar him. When I have harried him thus two or three year, Though he sue in forma pauperis, in spite Of all his thrift and care, he'll grow behindhand.