Things, as They Were, as They Are, and as They Ought to be: A Poem : with an Earnest Address to the Landowners of the United Kingdoms ...G.F. Harris, 1803 - Всего страниц: 140 |
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... was better inhabited , and better cultivated ; our markets were supplied * Mr . Nicholls in his Admonition to the great Landowners on the Monopoly of Farms . Printed Southampton 1800 . " not only with corn , but poultry , eggs 10 PREFACE .
... was better inhabited , and better cultivated ; our markets were supplied * Mr . Nicholls in his Admonition to the great Landowners on the Monopoly of Farms . Printed Southampton 1800 . " not only with corn , but poultry , eggs 10 PREFACE .
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... monopoly of farms is also productive of bad effects in the cyder counties , in what they call a bear- ing year , when they have an abundance of fruit , some persons having from five to fifteen , or twenty orchards ; the consequence is ...
... monopoly of farms is also productive of bad effects in the cyder counties , in what they call a bear- ing year , when they have an abundance of fruit , some persons having from five to fifteen , or twenty orchards ; the consequence is ...
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... monopoly is of bad consequence , as by throwing several fields together into such park - like pieces , and , of course , stocking up the trees and hedges , the quantity of timber and firing is much de- creased : the effect of this is ...
... monopoly is of bad consequence , as by throwing several fields together into such park - like pieces , and , of course , stocking up the trees and hedges , the quantity of timber and firing is much de- creased : the effect of this is ...
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... article which we ma- nufacture , it must be in consequence of labour being cheaper there ; and labour being cheaper , must be in consequence of provisions being cheaper . Thus ruinous in its consequence is the monopoly of farms PREFACE .
... article which we ma- nufacture , it must be in consequence of labour being cheaper there ; and labour being cheaper , must be in consequence of provisions being cheaper . Thus ruinous in its consequence is the monopoly of farms PREFACE .
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... monopoly of farms ; thus we are going on from bad to worse daily , High and low , rich and poor feel , poignantly feel , the bad effects . The landowner himself , though he has considerably raised his rents , cannot now live with £ 3000 ...
... monopoly of farms ; thus we are going on from bad to worse daily , High and low , rich and poor feel , poignantly feel , the bad effects . The landowner himself , though he has considerably raised his rents , cannot now live with £ 3000 ...
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Стр. 20 - P'gThe following good effects have been the consequence of this proceeding. It has not, in one instance, failed of giving an industrious turn, even to some who were before idle and profligate. Their attention in nursing up the young trees, has been so much beyond what a farmer, intent upon greater objects, can or will bestow, that the value of the orchards is increased to 40s. per acre, in land which was of less than half the value in its former state. And the poors rates have from this cause, fallen...
Стр. 36 - Go to an alehouse kitchen of an old enclosed country, and there you will see the origin of poverty and poor rates. For whom are they to be sober ? For whom are they to save ? (Such are their questions) For the parish ? If I am diligent, shall I have leave to build a cottage ? If I am sober, shall I have land for a cow ? If I am frugal, shall I have half an acre of potatoes ? You offer no motives; you have nothing but a parish officer and a workhouse! —Bring me another pot...
Стр. 19 - ... families in a more neat and decent manner than those whose cottages were without land; and it was this circumstance, which induced the lord of the manor, (to whom almost the whole of the parish belonged...
Стр. 36 - For whom are they to be sober? For whom are they to save? (Such are their questions.) For the parish? "If I am diligent, shall I have leave to build a cottage?" "If I am sober, shall I have land for a cow?" "If I am frugal, shall I have half an acre of potatoes?" "You offer no motives; you have nothing but a parish officer and a workhouse ! Bring me another pot".
Стр. 35 - Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.
Стр. 3 - Correspondence of the Bath and West of England Society for the Encouragement of Agriculture, Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.
Стр. 27 - This land is divided into two plats; one of which is pasture for the cows in summer, and the other is kept as meadow land to provide hay for them in the winter. Each cottager knows his own piece of meadow land, and he lays upon it all the manure which he can obtain, in order that he may have the more hay. When one of the two plats of ground has been mown for two or three years...
Стр. 37 - Those homely ties which ruled their fathers long. Alas, your fathers did by other arts Draw those kind ties around their simple hearts, And led in other paths their ductile will ; By succour, faithful counsel, courteous cheer, Won them the ancient manners to revere, To prize their country's peace, and Heaven's due rites fulfil.
Стр. 39 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Стр. 30 - By means of these advantages the labourers and their- families live better, and are consequently more fit to endure labour...