Cobbett's Legacy to labourers; or, What is the right which the lords, baronets, and squires have to the lands of England? In 6 letters1872 |
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act of parliament amount baronets BROUGHAM called cause the natives CHARLES the Second chief church civil society claim commonwealth condition death destitute dominion duty earth eject emigrants England and Wales ENGLISH LANDLORDS excise farmer fruits give ground hath heir hold holders of estates House of Commons hundred Ireland king kingdom labour laid landholder landlords laws of England lawyers Letter living Lord ALTHORP Lord RADNOR MALTHUS man's matter ment millions nation natives to perish natural justice necessity neighbour overseer parish Parson LowE Parson MALTHUS penny-a-line CHADWICK perish of hunger persons PEVENSEY level poor poor-rates possession proprietor protection question real reign reasons reformed parliament relief rents revenue seen SIR ROBERT PEEL sort superior lord swallow taxes tenant tenures things tillage tion tithes unto vile band vote whole WILLIAM COBBETT Wolseley Hall words workhouse
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Page 54 - Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels; for I was an hungered and ye gave me no meat ; I was thirsty and ye gave me no drink ; I was a stranger and ye took me not in ; naked and ye clothed me not ; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Page 63 - Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work, rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.
Page 61 - For ye have eaten up the vineyard; The spoil of the poor is in your houses. What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, And grind the faces of the poor? Saith the Lord God of hosts.
Page 62 - He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
Page 60 - Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him : because that for this thing the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto.
Page 24 - So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Page 62 - He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again : God shall cast them out of his belly.
Page 88 - For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope.
Page 35 - And that all sorts of tenures, held of the king or others, be turned into free and common socage ; save only tenures in frankalmoign, copyholds, and the honorary services (without the slavish part) of grand serjeanty.
Page 76 - As Justice gives every man a title to the product of his honest industry and the fair acquisitions of his ancestors descended to him, so Charity gives every man a title to so much out of another's plenty as will keep him from extreme want where he has no means to subsist otherwise...