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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... Consequences of the Change . Recurrence of Distress among agricultural Labourers . Deterioration of their Condition ... consequence of the Extension of Tillage . Effect of this Improvement upon Population . - Contrast between Ulster and ...
... Consequences of the Change . Recurrence of Distress among agricultural Labourers . Deterioration of their Condition ... consequence of the Extension of Tillage . Effect of this Improvement upon Population . - Contrast between Ulster and ...
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... Consequences of legislative Inter- Page 349 ference CHAPTER IX . REMEDIES FOR OVER - POPULATION IN SCOTLAND AND IRELAND . Similarity of the Measures required in England and in the Low- lands of Scotland . Defects of the Scotch Poor Law ...
... Consequences of legislative Inter- Page 349 ference CHAPTER IX . REMEDIES FOR OVER - POPULATION IN SCOTLAND AND IRELAND . Similarity of the Measures required in England and in the Low- lands of Scotland . Defects of the Scotch Poor Law ...
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... consequence as its aggregate amount . A nation has no sense or feeling in its corporate capa- city ; it is its individual members that enjoy and suffer . If half of these are miserably poor , it is no consolation to them to know that ...
... consequence as its aggregate amount . A nation has no sense or feeling in its corporate capa- city ; it is its individual members that enjoy and suffer . If half of these are miserably poor , it is no consolation to them to know that ...
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... consequences being more or less felt in the other . The people of the United States possess every requisite for the growth of their wealth and power - immense unoc- cupied tracts of fertile soil , an extensive coast , numerous navigable ...
... consequences being more or less felt in the other . The people of the United States possess every requisite for the growth of their wealth and power - immense unoc- cupied tracts of fertile soil , an extensive coast , numerous navigable ...
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... consequences have frequently been , have been far surpassed in reck- lessness by the Americans . Among the latter , not only is every set of men at liberty to establish a joint - stock bank , and to issue notes payable on demand ...
... consequences have frequently been , have been far surpassed in reck- lessness by the Americans . Among the latter , not only is every set of men at liberty to establish a joint - stock bank , and to issue notes payable on demand ...
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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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