Things, as They Were, as They Are, and as They Ought to be: A Poem : with an Earnest Address to the Landowners of the United Kingdoms ...G.F. Harris, 1803 - 140 pagina's |
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Pagina 9
... formerly there . The conclusion of one of Mr. Pratt's quotations . from a most respectable author * , runs thus : - " Was " it not formerly owing to the small occupiers of land , " that many of the necessaries and comforts of life ...
... formerly there . The conclusion of one of Mr. Pratt's quotations . from a most respectable author * , runs thus : - " Was " it not formerly owing to the small occupiers of land , " that many of the necessaries and comforts of life ...
Pagina 12
... formerly did , or that they ought to have for them , they will not care if the remainder produces little or nothing . In a distant part of the county , where the farms are chiefly of a moderate size , an in- telligent man , who is ...
... formerly did , or that they ought to have for them , they will not care if the remainder produces little or nothing . In a distant part of the county , where the farms are chiefly of a moderate size , an in- telligent man , who is ...
Pagina 14
... quit the large farm , and now lives upon the small one , that he formerly did not think worth his notice ; and which , by increased industry and close attention , he has made so productive , that he is now more 14 PREFACE .
... quit the large farm , and now lives upon the small one , that he formerly did not think worth his notice ; and which , by increased industry and close attention , he has made so productive , that he is now more 14 PREFACE .
Pagina 15
... formerly from 101. to 301. a year , who were more useful members of society in every sense , than the greater part of the farmers of the present day . Indeed a great many now are grievous nuisances , as their conduct is of ruinous ...
... formerly from 101. to 301. a year , who were more useful members of society in every sense , than the greater part of the farmers of the present day . Indeed a great many now are grievous nuisances , as their conduct is of ruinous ...
Pagina 16
... formerly , the markets are by no means sup- plied in proportion ; and this proportionate scarcity will always cause an increase in price . I am fully persuaded that there is a less quantity of every kind of provisions produced now ...
... formerly , the markets are by no means sup- plied in proportion ; and this proportionate scarcity will always cause an increase in price . I am fully persuaded that there is a less quantity of every kind of provisions produced now ...
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Things, as They Were, as They Are, and as They Ought to be: A Poem : with an ... Thomas Tovey Volledige weergave - 1803 |
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Pagina 20 - P'gThe following good effects have been the consequence of this proceeding. It has not, in one instance, failed of giving an industrious turn, even to some who were before idle and profligate. Their attention in nursing up the young trees, has been so much beyond what a farmer, intent upon greater objects, can or will bestow, that the value of the orchards is increased to 40s. per acre, in land which was of less than half the value in its former state. And the poors rates have from this cause, fallen...
Pagina 36 - Go to an alehouse kitchen of an old enclosed country, and there you will see the origin of poverty and poor rates. For whom are they to be sober ? For whom are they to save ? (Such are their questions) For the parish ? If I am diligent, shall I have leave to build a cottage ? If I am sober, shall I have land for a cow ? If I am frugal, shall I have half an acre of potatoes ? You offer no motives; you have nothing but a parish officer and a workhouse! —Bring me another pot...
Pagina 19 - ... families in a more neat and decent manner than those whose cottages were without land; and it was this circumstance, which induced the lord of the manor, (to whom almost the whole of the parish belonged...
Pagina 36 - For whom are they to be sober? For whom are they to save? (Such are their questions.) For the parish? "If I am diligent, shall I have leave to build a cottage?" "If I am sober, shall I have land for a cow?" "If I am frugal, shall I have half an acre of potatoes?" "You offer no motives; you have nothing but a parish officer and a workhouse ! Bring me another pot".
Pagina 35 - Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.
Pagina 3 - Correspondence of the Bath and West of England Society for the Encouragement of Agriculture, Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.
Pagina 27 - This land is divided into two plats; one of which is pasture for the cows in summer, and the other is kept as meadow land to provide hay for them in the winter. Each cottager knows his own piece of meadow land, and he lays upon it all the manure which he can obtain, in order that he may have the more hay. When one of the two plats of ground has been mown for two or three years...
Pagina 37 - Those homely ties which ruled their fathers long. Alas, your fathers did by other arts Draw those kind ties around their simple hearts, And led in other paths their ductile will ; By succour, faithful counsel, courteous cheer, Won them the ancient manners to revere, To prize their country's peace, and Heaven's due rites fulfil.
Pagina 39 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Pagina 30 - By means of these advantages the labourers and their- families live better, and are consequently more fit to endure labour...