Free Trade in LandK. Paul, 1879 - 336 pages |
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... villages and towns . There is no class of our people which has not a great and direct interest in the reforms it explains and advocates . It may prove a legacy of much good from one who is now withdrawn from amongst us , if it hasten ...
... villages and towns . There is no class of our people which has not a great and direct interest in the reforms it explains and advocates . It may prove a legacy of much good from one who is now withdrawn from amongst us , if it hasten ...
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... villages and houses , in the economical and careful management of their fields . " In 1846 Mr. Kay published " Education of the Poor in England and Europe , " and in 1850 " The Social Condition and Education of the People in England and ...
... villages and houses , in the economical and careful management of their fields . " In 1846 Mr. Kay published " Education of the Poor in England and Europe , " and in 1850 " The Social Condition and Education of the People in England and ...
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... villages were generally only collections of the most miserable wooden cabins of one storey in height , and were crowded together as much as possible . The land was only half cultivated , wanted that appearance of care , neatness , and ...
... villages were generally only collections of the most miserable wooden cabins of one storey in height , and were crowded together as much as possible . The land was only half cultivated , wanted that appearance of care , neatness , and ...
Page 91
... villages , the orchards , or the fields . So , too , in France at the present day . There they have had free trade in land as long as any nation , but the yeomen and peasant farmers have hitherto had nothing deserving the name of ...
... villages , the orchards , or the fields . So , too , in France at the present day . There they have had free trade in land as long as any nation , but the yeomen and peasant farmers have hitherto had nothing deserving the name of ...
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... the machine ; and one is now constantly met , even in small towns and villages , old- fashioned and stagnant - looking in other respects , by the apparition and noise of machines of which the large farmer under the French System . 121.
... the machine ; and one is now constantly met , even in small towns and villages , old- fashioned and stagnant - looking in other respects , by the apparition and noise of machines of which the large farmer under the French System . 121.
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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...