England in 1835: A Series of Letters Written to Friends in Germany During a Residence in London and Excursions Into the Provinces, Volume 3J. Murray, 1836 |
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Pagina 191 - He suggests — Fifthly, the complete abolition of the systems of tenants at will, and the conversion of all these tenants at will into proprietors. " On reading this," he says, " the Tories will throw my book into the fire, and even the Whigs will be mute with astonishment. The whole battery of pillage, jacobinism, and dissolution of civil society, is discharged at me ; but it will not touch me — not even the assertion that I would, like St. Crispin, steal leather...
Pagina 311 - ENGLAND IN 1835. BEING A SERIES OF LETTERS WRITTEN TO FRIENDS IN GERMANY, DURING A RESIDENCE IN LONDON AND EXCURSIONS INTO THE PROVINCES. BY FREDERICK VON RAUMER, PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BERLIN, AUTHOR OF THE " HISTORY OF THE HOHENSTAUFEN," OF THE " HlSTORY OF EUROPE FROM THE END OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY," OF " ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE HISTORY OF THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES,
Pagina 209 - French, fancy they are at the head of all human civilization. No wonder if the native Irish, like the prophet of old by the waters of Babylon, sit down and weep, if I, a stranger, am compelled to reckon the few days I passed among them as the most melancholy of my life.
Pagina 184 - How shall I translate tenants-at-will ? Weyjtigbare ? Expellable ? Serfs ? But, in the ancient days of vassalage, it consisted rather in keeping the vassals attached to the soil, and by no means in driving them away. An ancient vassal is a lord compared with the present tenant-at-will, to whom the law affords no defence. Why not call them Jaydbare (cliaseablef) But this difference lessens the analogy,— that, for hares, stags, and deer, there is a season, during which no one is allowed to hunt them...
Pagina 134 - We therefore rarely trace any comprehensive plan, any attention to general convenience, or to beauty and architectonic art. Capital is employed solely in the creation of new capital. What is not calculated to promote this end is regarded as useless and superfluous. It is with a far different view that the west side of London has been enlarged.
Pagina 205 - I looked in vain for misery ; here, no words can express the frightful truth which everywhere meets the eye. To form an idea of it you must see these houses — not houses, but huts — not huts, but hovels, mostly without windows or apertures ; the same entrance, the same narrow space for men and hogs : the latter, lively, sleek, and well fed ; the former, covered with rags, or rather hung with the fragments of rags, in a manner which it is impossible to conceive.
Pagina 206 - The ruins of ancient castles were pointed out to me ; but how could I take any pleasure in them while the desolate ruined huts surrounded me, and testified the distress of the present times more loudly than the others did the grandeur of the past...
Pagina 207 - Which of those ages is the dark and barbarous — the former, when mendicant monks distributed their goods to the poor, and, in their way gave them the most rational comfort; or the latter, when rich (or bankrupt) aristocrats can see the weal of the Church and of religion (or of their relations) only in retaining possession of that which was taken and obtained by violence? " All the blame is thrown on agitators, and discontent produced by artificial means. What absurdity ! Every falling hut causes...
Pagina 307 - Do not the trophies of Wellington, the splendid ability of Peel, the energy of Russell, triumphing by its simplicity, the clear and well-directed understanding of Spring Rice, the enthusiastic struggle of O'Connell, belong to each other ? Do they not, by their reciprocal action, promote what is right 1 Would not the picture be poorer, the result more confined, if I should take out, condemn, or throw aside the one or the other 1
Pagina 233 - ... Oxford — which he never mentions, we believe, without a sneer or a censure, and hardly ever without making some egregious blunder in the matter of fact which he censures. But it is surprising, after all this, that towards the end of his last volume, he should sny, with 'incredible audacity' — ' No person should give an opinion of Oxford, its scientific, political, and ecclesiastical position, who has not seen it.