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... farms of about eighty acres each , and sold to white farmers , and he adds : " Where a few years ago there was a large plantation worked by gangs of South Sea Islanders , there are now twenty or thirty com- fortable homesteads . And the ...
... farms of about eighty acres each , and sold to white farmers , and he adds : " Where a few years ago there was a large plantation worked by gangs of South Sea Islanders , there are now twenty or thirty com- fortable homesteads . And the ...
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... farmers and others get these loans , but all kinds of spendthrifts and idlers . Of course they spend the money they borrow , and during the few years they are spending there is an enormous amount of trade done in the place . Shopkeepers ...
... farmers and others get these loans , but all kinds of spendthrifts and idlers . Of course they spend the money they borrow , and during the few years they are spending there is an enormous amount of trade done in the place . Shopkeepers ...
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... farmers of England have been ruined by excessive rents . For many years past they have been paying rent out of ... farms . The farms have not found fresh tenants , because the landlords will not let them , except on exorbitant ...
... farmers of England have been ruined by excessive rents . For many years past they have been paying rent out of ... farms . The farms have not found fresh tenants , because the landlords will not let them , except on exorbitant ...
Page 215
... farmers and in the villages have also left , partly for the same reason , and partly because it has become more and more the custom for large farmers to get all their work done and machinery repaired in manufacturing centres rather than ...
... farmers and in the villages have also left , partly for the same reason , and partly because it has become more and more the custom for large farmers to get all their work done and machinery repaired in manufacturing centres rather than ...
Page 216
... farmers for their improvements . They treat the farmers in every respect exactly as they treat the labourers . If they do offer the labourers land - as they are doing now that there is a deal of excitement on the subject they never give ...
... farmers for their improvements . They treat the farmers in every respect exactly as they treat the labourers . If they do offer the labourers land - as they are doing now that there is a deal of excitement on the subject they never give ...
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Page 453 - The land shall not be sold for ever; for the land is mine, for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
Page 455 - His watchmen are blind : they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark ; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand : they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
Page 452 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth...
Page 454 - And again I say unto you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Page 368 - This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. 9 But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
Page 434 - They are clothed in velvet and warm in their furs and their ermines, while we are covered with rags. They have wine and spices and fair bread; and we oat-cake and straw, and water to drink. They have leisure and fine houses; we have pain and labour, the rain and the wind in the fields. And yet it is of us and of our toil that these men hold their state.
Page 322 - 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 435 - Therefore I must say that, as I hope for mercy, I can have no other notion of all the other governments that I see or know, than that they are a conspiracy of the rich, who on pretence of managing the public only pursue their private ends, and devise all the ways and arts they can find out; first, that they may, without danger, preserve all that they have so ill acquired, and then that they may engage the poor to toil and labor for them at as low rates as possible, and oppress them as much as they...
Page 343 - has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other...
Page 342 - And as before so here, we see that, ethically considered, this law implies that each individual ought to receive the benefits and the evils of his own nature and consequent conduct : neither being prevented from having whatever good his actions normally bring to him, nor allowed to shoulder off on to other persons whatever ill is brought to him by his actions.