The Progress of the Nation: In Its Various Social and Economical Relations, from the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century to the Present Time, Volume 2C. Knight & Company, 1836 - Great Britain |
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Page 138 - It is not, however, with this view that those calculations are brought forward, but rather to prove how exceedingly great the increase of agricultural production must have been to have thus effectively kept in a state of independence a population which has increased with so great a degree of rapidity.
Page 76 - ... a convenient sum of money to be paid and distributed yearly of the fruits and profits of the same...
Page 304 - ... foreign countries ; and that it is extremely difficult, if not impossible, in this country, by any mode of executing the present laws, or by any new law, to prevent artisans who may be so determined from going out of the country. " 2. That although the penalties which the laws inflict on artisans who disobey them, are not distinctly understood by the workmen, yet an unfavourable opinion is generally entertained by them of the partial and oppressive operation of these laws, as preventing them...
Page 76 - Every preacher, parson, vicar, and curate, as well in their sermons, collections, bidding of the beads, as in the time of confession and making of wills, is to exhort, move, stir, and provoke people to be liberal for the relief of the impotent, and setting and keeping to work the said sturdy vagabonds.
Page 313 - It is well known that, by the consumption of one bushel of coals in the furnace of a steam-boiler, a power is produced which, in a few minutes, will raise 20,000 gallons of water from a depth of 350 feet — an effect which could not be produced in a shorter time than a whole day through the continuous labor of twenty men, working with the common pump.
Page 28 - Between 20 and 50, many more die in London, on account of the large annual influx from the country. In all cities, a large portion of disease and death is to be assigned to the constant importation from the country of individuals who have attained to maturity, but, having been previously habituated to frequent exercise in a pure atmosphere, and to a simple, regular diet, are gradually sacrificed to confined air, sedentary habits, or a capricious and over-stimulating...
Page 77 - ... for setting to work all such persons, married or unmarried, having no means to maintain them , and use no ordinary and daily trade of life to get their living by...
Page 154 - With scarcely any exception, the revenue drawn in the form of rent, from the ownership of the soil, has been at least doubled in every part of Great Britain since 1*790.
Page 139 - ... custom. Professor Nasse derived his facts concerning the existence of such communal land-holdings in England, from a report of a Select Committee on Commons Inclosure, instituted in order to frame laws for the dissolution of common holdings, by order of the House of Commons, 1844, and from the reports of the Board of Agriculture, about the beginning of the present century, under charge of Sir John Sinclair. These latter reports were abridged by Mr. Marshall, a man often referred to by Sir Henry...
Page 100 - What in the whole might a labourer's wife and four children, aged 14, 11, 8, and 5 years respectively, (the eldest a boy,) expect to earn in the year, obtaining, as in the former case, an average amount of employment...