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 страница |
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... Advantages . Examination of their supposed Tendency to create an excessive agricultural Population . - Peculiar Cir- cumstances which have led to the minute Partition of Land in Ireland . Dissimilar Condition of England . -Actual ...
... Advantages . Examination of their supposed Tendency to create an excessive agricultural Population . - Peculiar Cir- cumstances which have led to the minute Partition of Land in Ireland . Dissimilar Condition of England . -Actual ...
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... Advantages obtained from it . - Suggestion of other Expedients for the Extension of the " Allotment System . " Estimate of the Amount of Benefit derivable by agricultural Labourers from Free Trade and Cottage Allot- Probable Permanence ...
... Advantages obtained from it . - Suggestion of other Expedients for the Extension of the " Allotment System . " Estimate of the Amount of Benefit derivable by agricultural Labourers from Free Trade and Cottage Allot- Probable Permanence ...
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... advantages contribute only to the happiness of the few , while the many are sunk in bodily and mental destitution , the lot of such a people is any thing but an enviable one . With all their civilisation and refinement , their condition ...
... advantages contribute only to the happiness of the few , while the many are sunk in bodily and mental destitution , the lot of such a people is any thing but an enviable one . With all their civilisation and refinement , their condition ...
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... advantage of this system to the labouring class is unquestionable . The hind , as the yearly labourer is called , has a cottage and garden for himself and his family , several of whom are , in many cases , engaged by the year , as well ...
... advantage of this system to the labouring class is unquestionable . The hind , as the yearly labourer is called , has a cottage and garden for himself and his family , several of whom are , in many cases , engaged by the year , as well ...
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... advantages , such as the posses- sion of a cottage either rent free , or at a reduced rent , a potato ground rent free , and the occasional use of his master's horses in his allotment . It is certain , however , that this is an ...
... advantages , such as the posses- sion of a cottage either rent free , or at a reduced rent , a potato ground rent free , and the occasional use of his master's horses in his allotment . It is certain , however , that this is an ...
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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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