History of the Middle and Working Classes: With a Popular Expositon of the Economical and Political Principles which Have Influenced the Past and Present Condition of the Industrious OrdersE. Wilson, 1833 - 604 páginas |
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... Scotland - Curious Expedients for Relief of the Poor - Act against the Erection of Cottages - Alarm about the Increase of the Metropolis - Excess of Population -Pestilence - Comparison of the Elizabethan Age with the present · CHAP ...
... Scotland - Curious Expedients for Relief of the Poor - Act against the Erection of Cottages - Alarm about the Increase of the Metropolis - Excess of Population -Pestilence - Comparison of the Elizabethan Age with the present · CHAP ...
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... Scotland considered - Working Classes of England and other Countries --- Principles and Policy of the Poor - laws stated and defended - Obligations they impose on the Rich to interest themselves in the state of the Poor --- Mendicity or ...
... Scotland considered - Working Classes of England and other Countries --- Principles and Policy of the Poor - laws stated and defended - Obligations they impose on the Rich to interest themselves in the state of the Poor --- Mendicity or ...
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... Scotland 548 549 549 VI . Analysis of the Number of Families and their Occupa- tions in Great Britain , in 1821 and 1831 VII . Proportion of Families in Scotland occupied in Agricul- ture , Trade , Manufactures , & c . in 1821 VIII ...
... Scotland 548 549 549 VI . Analysis of the Number of Families and their Occupa- tions in Great Britain , in 1821 and 1831 VII . Proportion of Families in Scotland occupied in Agricul- ture , Trade , Manufactures , & c . in 1821 VIII ...
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... Scotland but possessed an English slave . In the details of the border wars , mention is frequently made of the number of slaves taken prisoners as forming a prin- cipal part of the booty . It is not easy to ascertain from writers the ...
... Scotland but possessed an English slave . In the details of the border wars , mention is frequently made of the number of slaves taken prisoners as forming a prin- cipal part of the booty . It is not easy to ascertain from writers the ...
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... Scotland were bondmen ; and in case they left the ground of the farm to which they belonged , and as pertaining to which their services were bought or sold , they were liable to be brought back by summary procedure before a magistrate ...
... Scotland were bondmen ; and in case they left the ground of the farm to which they belonged , and as pertaining to which their services were bought or sold , they were liable to be brought back by summary procedure before a magistrate ...
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Adam Smith advantages agricultural amount ascer augment Bank of England capital cause century chiefly circumstances civil cloth commerce competition condition consequence corn cottars demand for labour diet employed employers employment Encyclopædia Britannica England enjoyment established evil exchange existing favourable freedom fund greater habits Henry VIII House of Commons houses husbandry idle impotent poor improvement increase individuals industry influence inquiry institutions interest Ireland labouring classes land lative laws legislation legislature less liberty Lord machinery maintenance manufactures marriage masters mendicity ment natural object operation parish parliament pauperism period persons political Political Economy poor poor-laws poor-rate population price of labour principle produce profit proportion provision pursuits quantity rate of wages redundant regulations reign relief rent Scotland slavery social society statute subsistence supply tend tendency tion tithe towns trade viduals wealth workhouse workmen
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Página 111 - Labour was the first price, the original purchasemoney that was paid for all things." When all things lay in common, alike the gift of nature to all men, who would have the best right to say, This it mine ? The man who first set his mark upon
Página 83 - a number of children, a matter of right and an honour, instead of a ground for opprobrium and contempt. This will make a large family a blessing and not a curse ; and this will draw a proper line of distinction between those who are able to provide for themselves by their labour, and those who, after having
Página 349 - such persons, married or unmarried, having no means to maintain them, and using no ordinary and daily trade of life to get their living by; and for the necessary relief of the lame, impotent, old, blind, and such other among them being poor and not able to work." The duties of parish officers clearly appear, then, to have been restricted to the three following specific objects: 1.
Página 64 - of enlisting men for the army. He considers the improvidence of the poor a principal cause of their wretchedness. « We are," says this shrewd observer, " the most lazy diligent nation in the world: there is nothing more frequent, than for an Englishman to work till he has got his pocket full of money,
Página 100 - stated, that the object of the association is strictly limited to " the imparting useful information to all classes of the community, particularly to such as are unable to avail themselves of experienced teachers, or may prefer learning by themselves." The plan proposed for the attainment of this end is, the periodical publication, under the sanction of a
Página 92 - them of a master-wheelwright, the latter trade having been followed in England before the 5th of Elizabeth. But a wheelwright, though he had never served an apprenticeship to a coachmaker, might either make himself, or employ journeymen to make coaches, the trade of a coachmaker not being within the statute because not exercised
Página 477 - one would have any production which he could call his own, and which he would be entitled to exchange for the production of another man. We should thus be deprived of one of the chief advantages of civilized life. When a man is from necessity his own tailor, tent-maker, carpenter, cook, huntsman,
Página 569 - DOMESTIC ECONOMY AND MORALS OF THE MANUFACTURING POPULATION. "The population," says Dr. Kay, " employed in the cotton factories, rises at five o'clock in the morning, works in the mills from six till eight o'clock, and returns home for half an hour or forty minutes to breakfast. This meal generally consists of
Página 41 - one year commonly wherein 300 or 400 of them were not devoured and eaten up by the gallows in one place and other." In spite of these sanguinary punishments the country continued in a dreadful state of disorder. Every
Página 171 - or silver shoe-buckle, may be a cause of increased industry in the manufacturer and agriculturist, by the desire he excites in them to possess these articles. " A watch," Dr. Paley observes, " may be a very unnecessary appendage to the dress of a peasant; yet, if the peasant will till the ground to obtain a watch, the true design of