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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... comfort . Of all the evils by which a nation can be afflicted , this is perhaps the worst . The ravages of war and pestilence are only occasional , and may be soon repaired ; a tyrant's caprice and cruelty are felt by comparatively few ...
... comfort . Of all the evils by which a nation can be afflicted , this is perhaps the worst . The ravages of war and pestilence are only occasional , and may be soon repaired ; a tyrant's caprice and cruelty are felt by comparatively few ...
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... comfort . Still it is something to obtain , by incessant toil , a sufficiency of the necessaries of life , and it would be well if even this modicum of good fortune were everywhere the husbandman's lot . How far otherwise is the fact we ...
... comfort . Still it is something to obtain , by incessant toil , a sufficiency of the necessaries of life , and it would be well if even this modicum of good fortune were everywhere the husbandman's lot . How far otherwise is the fact we ...
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... comfort of the one or the wretchedness of the other . Thus in most parts of Yorkshire and others of the northern counties , the peasantry are little , if at all , worse off than their brethren of Northumberland . They are nearly as well ...
... comfort of the one or the wretchedness of the other . Thus in most parts of Yorkshire and others of the northern counties , the peasantry are little , if at all , worse off than their brethren of Northumberland . They are nearly as well ...
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... comfort , are , as we discovered in our survey of the agricul- tural districts , considerably more than are abso- lutely necessary for existence . It might reason- ably be thought , therefore , that where they were prevalent there could ...
... comfort , are , as we discovered in our survey of the agricul- tural districts , considerably more than are abso- lutely necessary for existence . It might reason- ably be thought , therefore , that where they were prevalent there could ...
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... comfort by their own unassisted exertions . This it is not in their power to do at any stage in the progress of society . The female frame is not adapted to severe exertion , and the occupations for which it is suited are not very ...
... comfort by their own unassisted exertions . This it is not in their power to do at any stage in the progress of society . The female frame is not adapted to severe exertion , and the occupations for which it is suited are not very ...
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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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