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... France LETTER IX . ON FRANCE . French System of Land Laws Code Napoléon 82 83 84 88 91 91 94 97 PAGE Division of land in France Size of estates 97 Contents . xiii.
... France LETTER IX . ON FRANCE . French System of Land Laws Code Napoléon 82 83 84 88 91 91 94 97 PAGE Division of land in France Size of estates 97 Contents . xiii.
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... France 122 Counteracting influences to excessive subdivision in Norway 123 In Switzerland 126 LETTER XII . THE CHANNEL ISLANDS . Objection to French System from climate answered 132 Land Laws of Guernsey 133 Of Jersey 133 Value of Land ...
... France 122 Counteracting influences to excessive subdivision in Norway 123 In Switzerland 126 LETTER XII . THE CHANNEL ISLANDS . Objection to French System from climate answered 132 Land Laws of Guernsey 133 Of Jersey 133 Value of Land ...
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... France , the empires of Germany and Austria , and the kingdoms of Holland , Belgium , and Italy , has been released from its feudal fetters , and has in every such case begun immediately to break up into smaller estates . In all those ...
... France , the empires of Germany and Austria , and the kingdoms of Holland , Belgium , and Italy , has been released from its feudal fetters , and has in every such case begun immediately to break up into smaller estates . In all those ...
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... France , or in any other civilised country in the world . Even in France , whose Land Laws we do not wish 1 I have been asked why I am opposed to the proposal to limit the amount of land which a man might hold , and also why a landowner ...
... France , or in any other civilised country in the world . Even in France , whose Land Laws we do not wish 1 I have been asked why I am opposed to the proposal to limit the amount of land which a man might hold , and also why a landowner ...
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... France and Great Britain is , that if a great landowner in France mismanages his estate , or gets ruinously into debt , or does not care to keep it , or feels that he could employ his capital to some better purpose in some other way ...
... France and Great Britain is , that if a great landowner in France mismanages his estate , or gets ruinously into debt , or does not care to keep it , or feels that he could employ his capital to some better purpose in some other way ...
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Page 250 - Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden ; give him * Arthur Young's Trtnelt m francl, ml. ip 88. « Ibid. p. 61. a nine years lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.
Page 249 - Ibid., p. 9. vol. ip 50. struck with a large tract of land, seemingly nothing but huge rocks ; yet most of it enclosed and planted with the most industrious attention. Every man has an olive, a mulberry, an almond, or a peach tree, and vines scattered among them; so that the whole ground is covered with the oddest mixture of these plants and bulging rocks, that can be conceived. The inhabitants of this village deserve encouragement for their industry; and if I were a French minister they should have...
Page 232 - German bauer, on the contrary, looks on the country as made for him and his fellowmen. He feels himself a man ; he has a stake in the country as good as that of the bulk of his neighbours : no man can threaten him with ejection or the workhouse so long as he is active and economical.
Page 267 - Switzerland, next to its natural scenery, is the air of well-being, the neatness, the sense of propriety imprinted on the people, their dwellings, their plots of land. They have a kind of Robinson Crusoe industry about their houses and little properties ; they are perpetually building, repairing, altering, or improving something about their tenements. The spirit of the proprietor is not to be mistaken in all that one sees in Switzerland.
Page 229 - He pays for it more than it is worth ; but what reason he has to esteem at a high price the advantage of thenceforward always employing his labour advantageously, without being obliged to offer it cheap, and of always finding his bread when he wants it, without being obliged to buy it dear I
Page 241 - There is not a foot of waste land in the Engadine, the lowest part of which is not much lower than the top of Snowdon. Wherever grass will grow, there it is ; wherever a rock will bear a blade, verdure is seen upon it ; wherever an ear of rye will ripen, there it is to be found. Barley and oats have also their appropriate spots ; and wherever it is possible to ripen a little patch of wheat, the cultivation of it is attempted.
Page 229 - ... and wool, cares little about knowing the price of the market ; for he has little to sell and little to buy, and is never ruined by the revolutions of commerce.
Page 249 - I was much struck with a large tract of land, seemingly nothing but huge rocks ; yet most of it enclosed and planted with the most industrious attention. Every man has an olive, a mulberry, an almond, or a peach tree, and vines scattered among them ; so that the whole ground is covered with the oddest mixture of these plants and bulging rocks, that can be conceived. The inhabitants of this village deserve encouragement for their industry ; and if I were a French minister they should have it.
Page 250 - In his description of the country at the foot of the Western Pyrenees, he speaks no longer from surmise, but from knowledge. '- Takef the road to Moneng, and come presently to a scene which was so new to me in France, that I could hardly believe my own eyes. A succession of many well-built, tight, and comfortable farming cottages built of stone and covered with tiles ; each having its little garden...
Page 242 - This reads very well ; but if we raise our eyes from their books to their fields, and coolly compare what we see in the best districts farmed in large farms, with what we see in the best districts farmed in small farms, we see, and there is no blinking the fact, better crops on the ground in Flanders, East Friesland, Holstein, in short, on the whole line of the arable land of equal quality of...