Land reform. New, and popular ed1908 |
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acres Adam Smith agricultural labourers allotments Arthur Young average Blackheath Board of Agriculture cause cent century classes Committee common condition copyholders Corn Laws cottages County Council cultivation doubt economy Education Edward VI England and Wales English estates evils existed farm farmer favour France free imports free trade freeholders give given Henry VIII History holders improvement inclosed Inclosure Act inclosures increase industry interest John Ball king land system landlord large number legislation less local Education Authorities Lord manor manorial manufacturing millions sterling nation nearly object owner ownership parish peasant proprietary peasantry persons political poor practical present writer produce proprietors prosperity question referred regard rent Report rural population secure Sir John Kennaway small holdings social soil Statute tenant tenure things tion United Kingdom village villeins wages Wat Tyler wealth wheat whole yeoman
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Page 162 - 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 ;w But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Page 97 - ... divers and great solemn monasteries of this realm wherein, thanks be to God, religion is right well kept and observed...
Page 162 - 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 69 - Rent is that portion of the produce of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil.
Page 162 - 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 44 - ... a relief, he shall have his inheritance by the ancient relief — that is to say, the heir or heirs of an earl, for...
Page 127 - 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 426 - 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 10 - 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 162 - 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.