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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... occupiers of land : Mr. Grey . Mr. Fenwick . 36 bush . oats 10 bush . wheat Mr. Hindmarsh . 36 bush . oats 24 99 barley 30 oats 24 99 99 barley 12 99 peas 10 29 barley 12 " " peas 3 wheat 10 29 29 rye 6 wheat 99 3 " " rye 10 " " peas ...
... occupiers of land : Mr. Grey . Mr. Fenwick . 36 bush . oats 10 bush . wheat Mr. Hindmarsh . 36 bush . oats 24 99 barley 30 oats 24 99 99 barley 12 99 peas 10 29 barley 12 " " peas 3 wheat 10 29 29 rye 6 wheat 99 3 " " rye 10 " " peas ...
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... occupiers of four or five acres can do little more than maintain themselves , yet it is their aid alone that saves their still poorer brethren from starvation . This is true even of Sutherland , which is commonly represented as a highly ...
... occupiers of four or five acres can do little more than maintain themselves , yet it is their aid alone that saves their still poorer brethren from starvation . This is true even of Sutherland , which is commonly represented as a highly ...
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... occupiers of a portion of ground sufficient for their maintenance , or such as occupied more than their shares ought to be men of capital and enterprise , able and willing to make the best use of their land . Neither of these positions ...
... occupiers of a portion of ground sufficient for their maintenance , or such as occupied more than their shares ought to be men of capital and enterprise , able and willing to make the best use of their land . Neither of these positions ...
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... occupiers , the labourers without any land at all , or with nothing but small garden plots , are far more numerous . Besides , not only can few or none of the occu- piers of less than fifteen acres have any occasion to hire labourers ...
... occupiers , the labourers without any land at all , or with nothing but small garden plots , are far more numerous . Besides , not only can few or none of the occu- piers of less than fifteen acres have any occasion to hire labourers ...
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... occupiers , and swarms with an indigent and wretched population . It is true that some landed proprietors have made great exertions to introduce a better system of agriculture , and to improve the condition of their immediate tenants ...
... occupiers , and swarms with an indigent and wretched population . It is true that some landed proprietors have made great exertions to introduce a better system of agriculture , and to improve the condition of their immediate tenants ...
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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.