English and Irish Land Questions: Collected EssaysCassell, Petter, Galpin, 1881 - 272 pagina's |
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... give very little local informa- tion as to the ownership of land in particular parishes or districts , or the number of tenants of the various owners , or as to the nature of the ownerships . It does not distinguish between leaseholders ...
... give very little local informa- tion as to the ownership of land in particular parishes or districts , or the number of tenants of the various owners , or as to the nature of the ownerships . It does not distinguish between leaseholders ...
Pagina 6
... condition but in its laws . In every other country above referred to , the laws either give no sanction to the accumulation of landed property upon eldest sons , or , as in the case of France and some others , 6 Freedom of Land .
... condition but in its laws . In every other country above referred to , the laws either give no sanction to the accumulation of landed property upon eldest sons , or , as in the case of France and some others , 6 Freedom of Land .
Pagina 7
... gives prominent sanction to the one practice and facilities for the other . There are , however , economists , and by no means an unimportant class , who believe that the present distribution of land in England has no reference whatever ...
... gives prominent sanction to the one practice and facilities for the other . There are , however , economists , and by no means an unimportant class , who believe that the present distribution of land in England has no reference whatever ...
Pagina 8
... give higher prices than large proprietors , prices that would appear to be excessive in the agricultural parts of England , and there is no tendency for land to fall into few hands . There is great variety of ownership in this part of ...
... give higher prices than large proprietors , prices that would appear to be excessive in the agricultural parts of England , and there is no tendency for land to fall into few hands . There is great variety of ownership in this part of ...
Pagina 20
... 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 turn it into a desert . The magic of property turns sand into gold . " This opinion of Arthur ...
... 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 turn it into a desert . The magic of property turns sand into gold . " This opinion of Arthur ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 234 - The rich complained and the poor murmured, but he was so sturdy that he recked nought of them ; they must will all that the king willed, if they would live; or would keep their lands ; or would hold their possessions ; or would be maintained in their rights.
Pagina 236 - ... by the name of the Game Law, now arrived to, and wantoning in its highest vigour : both founded upon the same unreasonable notions of permanent property in wild creatures ; and both productive of the same tyranny to the commons: but with this difference, that the Forest Laws established only one mighty hunter throughout the land, the Game Laws have raised a little Nimrod in every manor.
Pagina 20 - ... would be too great for it. It was sufficient to prove that property in land is, of all others, the most active instigator to severe and incessant labour.
Pagina 21 - Should it be supported in its present vigour for another half century, la grande nation will certainly he the greatest pauper warren in Europe; and will, along with Ireland, have the honour of furnishing hewers of wood and drawers of water for all the other countries of the world.
Pagina 40 - The petty proprietors who cultivated their own fields with their own hands, and enjoyed a modest competence, without affecting to have scutcheons and crests, or aspiring to sit on the bench of justice, then formed a much more important part of the nation than at present.
Pagina 195 - Inclosures at that time began to be more frequent, whereby arable land, which could not be manured without people and families, was turned into pasture, which was easily rid by a few herdsmen; and tenances for years, lives, and at will, whereupon much of the yeomanry lived, were turned into demesnes.
Pagina 58 - Physically, a ruinous, ill-drained cottage, 'cribbed, cabined, confined,' and ovei'-crowded, generates any amount of disease, — fevers of every type, catarrh, rheumatism, — as well as intensifies to the utmost that tendency to scrofula and phthisis which, from their frequent intermarriages and their low diet, abounds so largely among the poor. Socially, nothing can be more wretched than the condition of
Pagina 246 - And be it enacted, That if any person shall unlawfully and wilfully kill, wound, or take any house dove or pigeon, under such circumstances as shall not amount to larceny at common law, every such offender, being convicted thereof before a justice of the peace, shall forfeit and pay, over and above the value of the bird, any sum not exceeding two pounds.
Pagina 73 - Children grew disobedient when they knew they could not be set aside: farmers were ousted of their leases made by tenants...