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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Página 33
... relief : they first exhausted the little hoard accumulated in better days , and sold or pawned their furniture , eking out the money thus obtained with the earnings of occasional jobs . " They did not appear before us , says the chair ...
... relief : they first exhausted the little hoard accumulated in better days , and sold or pawned their furniture , eking out the money thus obtained with the earnings of occasional jobs . " They did not appear before us , says the chair ...
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... relief could be afforded ; not more than one shilling per head weekly . The poor rates , of course , were increased in proportion ; but the poverty of the rate - payers created so large a number of de- faulters , that the amount ...
... relief could be afforded ; not more than one shilling per head weekly . The poor rates , of course , were increased in proportion ; but the poverty of the rate - payers created so large a number of de- faulters , that the amount ...
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... relief . I have got one warp for myself , and the prospect of another for my wife . " The cases personally inspected by the commis- sioners , being chiefly those in which relief was received from the parish , did not present the extreme ...
... relief . I have got one warp for myself , and the prospect of another for my wife . " The cases personally inspected by the commis- sioners , being chiefly those in which relief was received from the parish , did not present the extreme ...
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... relief of the poor , and a committee , composed of the principal municipal authorities , the clergy of all denomina- tions , and some of the leading manufacturers of the place , was appointed for the management of the fund . In a ...
... relief of the poor , and a committee , composed of the principal municipal authorities , the clergy of all denomina- tions , and some of the leading manufacturers of the place , was appointed for the management of the fund . In a ...
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... relief . † In Leeds , 4025 families , being one fifth of the whole population , were dependent on the poor's rates . But it is needless to multiply examples , for no one can have forgotten the formidable riots that took place in the ...
... relief . † In Leeds , 4025 families , being one fifth of the whole population , were dependent on the poor's rates . But it is needless to multiply examples , for no one can have forgotten the formidable riots that took place in the ...
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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.