 | 1874 - 618 pagina’s
...cottage ? If I am sober, shall I have land for a cow ? If I am frugal, shall I have half an acre for potatoes ? You offer no motives ; you have nothing...parish officer and a workhouse. Bring me another pot.' Going then into calculations as to the comparative cost of keeping families in the workhouse on the... | |
 | Thomas Edward Scrutton - 1887 - 202 pagina’s
...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...parish officer and a workhouse. Bring me another pot!" This was the result in enclosures managed so as to take away from the poor all interest or hope of... | |
 | Russell Montague Garnier - 1895 - 482 pagina’s
...cottage ? If I am sober, shall I have land for a cow ? If I am frugal, shall I have half an acre for potatoes ? You offer no motives, you have nothing...parish officer and a workhouse. Bring me another pot." * These are some of the questions which he puts in the labourer's mouth, and they were more or less... | |
 | George Cadbury (jr.), Tom Bryan - 1908 - 214 pagina’s
...For the parish ? If I am diligent 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...parish officer and a workhouse. Bring me another pot.' " Three Acres and a Cow. Sir James Sinclair, the enlightened and philanthropic first President of the... | |
 | Wilhelm Hasbach - 1908 - 502 pagina’s
...origin of poverty and the poor rates. For whom are they to be sober? For whom are they to save? .... You offer no motives; you have nothing but a parish...officer and a workhouse !—Bring me another pot! "^ to the poor from little rhandlers' shops at an advanrrd price, bread in thr S.'UTIP \vuv." And who... | |
 | 1910 - 500 pagina’s
...quoting Young's Annals, XXXVI., 529. For whom are they to be sober ? For whom are they to save ? . . . You offer no motives ; you have nothing but a parish officer and a workhouse ! Bring me another pot ! " l So also the Rev. J. Howlett : " Whatever their vice and immorality, I must again maintain, it... | |
 | Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1912 - 530 pagina’s
...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...parish officer and a workhouse. Bring me another pot." l The same point is urged, with less vivacity and picturesqueness of statement, by the best writers... | |
 | John Lawrence Hammond, Barbara Bradby Hammond - 1913 - 446 pagina’s
...build a cottage ? If I am sober, shall I have land for a cow ? If I am frugal, shall I have hah* an acre of potatoes ? You offer no motives ; you have...officer and a workhouse ! — Bring me another pot — .' 1 1 Annals of Agriculture, vol. xxxvi. p. 508. CHAPTER VI THE LABOURER IN 1795 IN an unenclosed... | |
 | Olive Jocelyn Dunlop - 1913 - 288 pagina’s
...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...parish officer and a workhouse. Bring me another pot." l 1 " Annals of Agriculture," XXXVI. 508. CHAPTER II ATTEMPTS AT SOLUTION IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY... | |
 | Alfred Edward Bland, Philip Anthony Brown, Richard Henry Tawney - 1914 - 776 pagina’s
...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...parish officer and a workhouse ! Bring me another pot. Objection VIII. Wastes are as much property as my house. Will a farmer give up his right of commonage... | |
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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... 
