Land Reform: Occuping Ownership, Peasant Proprietary and Rural EducationLongmans, Green and Company, 1908 - 452 pages |
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Land Reform: Occupying Ownership, Peasant Proprietary, and Rural Education Jesse Collings Affichage du livre entier - 1906 |
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acres Adam Smith agricultural labourers agriculture allotments Arthur Young average Blackheath bread cause cent century chroniclers classes Cobden common condition copyholders Corn Laws cottages County Council cultivation districts doubt economy Edward VI employment England and Wales English estates evils exist farm farmer favour foreign France free imports free trade given Henry VIII History improvement inclosed inclosures increase industry interest Jack Cade John Ball king Land Purchase Bill landlord large number legislation less Lord manor manorial manufacturing millions sterling nation object owners ownership parish pauperism peasant proprietary peasantry persons political poor practical present writer produce proprietors prosperity question rebellion referred reform regard rent Report rural population schools secure small holdings social soil sold Statute supply tenant things tion United Kingdom village villeins wages Warwickshire Wat Tyler wealth wheat whole yeoman
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Page 164 - Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn ; Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green : One only master grasps the whole domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain...
Page 91 - ... divers and great solemn monasteries of this realm wherein, thanks be to God, religion is right well kept and observed...
Page 164 - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
Page 164 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Page 164 - And while he sinks, without one arm to save The country blooms — a garden and a grave. 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.
Page 40 - ... a relief, he shall have his inheritance by the ancient relief — that is to say, the heir or heirs of an earl, for...
Page 121 - Good people," cried the preacher^ " things will never go well in England so long as goods be not in common, and so long as there be villeins and gentlemen. By what right are they whom we call lords greater folk than we? On what grounds have they deserved it ? Why do they hold us in serfage? If we all came of the same father and mother, of Adam and Eve, how can they say or prove that they...
Page 428 - We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions ; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.
Page 8 - An activity has been here, that has swept away all difficulties before it, and has clothed the very rocks with verdure. It would be a disgrace to common sense to ask the cause; the enjoyment of property must have done it. Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden ; give him a nine years lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.
Page 164 - Plenty smiles — alas! she smiles for few — • And those who taste not, yet behold her store, Are as the slaves that dig the golden ore, — The wealth around them makes them doubly poor.