The Progress of the Nation: In Its Various Social and Economical Relations, from the Beginning of the Nineteenth CenturyJ. Murray, 1851 - 846 páginas |
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... Poor Laws - Act 43rd Elizabeth - Amount expended at various periods for relief of poor - Injurious tendency of the system - Means em- ployed for its amendment - Sums expended for poor in England and Wales in each year of the present ...
... Poor Laws - Act 43rd Elizabeth - Amount expended at various periods for relief of poor - Injurious tendency of the system - Means em- ployed for its amendment - Sums expended for poor in England and Wales in each year of the present ...
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... Poor - Motives for Self - dependence -Wages in some Foreign Countries CHAPTER XV . MEASUREMENT AND CLASSING OF SHIPPING . Inaccurate mode of Measuring employed from 1773 to 1835 - Various consequent evils - Remedy attempted , 1821 ...
... Poor - Motives for Self - dependence -Wages in some Foreign Countries CHAPTER XV . MEASUREMENT AND CLASSING OF SHIPPING . Inaccurate mode of Measuring employed from 1773 to 1835 - Various consequent evils - Remedy attempted , 1821 ...
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... EXPENDITURE . 485 • 504 · 509 Local Taxation - Poor Rates - County Rates - Amount levied in 1844 - Objects to which the money was applied , compared with 1792 • • 516 SECTION V. - CONSUMPTION . CHAPTER I. Small Number of X CONTENTS .
... EXPENDITURE . 485 • 504 · 509 Local Taxation - Poor Rates - County Rates - Amount levied in 1844 - Objects to which the money was applied , compared with 1792 • • 516 SECTION V. - CONSUMPTION . CHAPTER I. Small Number of X CONTENTS .
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... Poor Popu- lation - Multiplication of Criminal Offenders - Reasons for expecting Amendment in this respect · • 630 CHAPTER II . CRIME . Multiplication of Crimes against Property - Diminution of Crimes of Violence- Number of Offenders in ...
... Poor Popu- lation - Multiplication of Criminal Offenders - Reasons for expecting Amendment in this respect · • 630 CHAPTER II . CRIME . Multiplication of Crimes against Property - Diminution of Crimes of Violence- Number of Offenders in ...
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... Poor has been conducted- Statistical Societies of Manchester and London - Normal School at Battersea - Pro- portion of Marriage Registers signed with Crosses in different parts of England and Wales - Education in Scotland , 1825 and ...
... Poor has been conducted- Statistical Societies of Manchester and London - Normal School at Battersea - Pro- portion of Marriage Registers signed with Crosses in different parts of England and Wales - Education in Scotland , 1825 and ...
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Página 294 - ... or breakings down. They will here meet with ruts, which I actually measured, four feet deep, and floating with mud, only from a wet summer.
Página 294 - I know not, in the whole range of language, terms sufficiently expressive to describe this infernal road. Let me most seriously caution all travellers who may accidentally propose to travel this terrible country, to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one they break their necks or their limbs by overthrows or breakings down.
Página 380 - Petitioners cannot expect so important a branch of it as the Customs to be given up, nor to be materially diminished, unless some substitute, less objectionable, be suggested.
Página 379 - And the same train of argument, which, with corresponding prohibitions and protective duties, should exclude us from foreign trade, might be brought forward to justify the re-enactment of restrictions upon the interchange of productions (unconnected with public revenue) among the kingdoms composing the union, or among the counties of the same kingdom.
Página 222 - I shall do all that in me lies to discourage the woollen manufacture in Ireland, and encourage the linen manufacture there, and to promote the trade of England.
Página 668 - Behn's novels? — I confessed the charge.- — Whether I could get her a sight of them? — I said, with some hesitation, I believed I could ; but that I did not think she would like either the manners, or the language, which approached too near that of Charles II. 's time to be quite proper reading. 'Nevertheless...
Página 421 - The price of corn in this country has risen from 100 to 200 per cent and upwards, when the utmost computed deficiency of the crops has not been more than between one-sixth and one-third below an average, and when that deficiency has been relieved by foreign supplies.
Página 668 - a very odd thing that I, an old woman of eighty and upwards, sitting alone, feel myself ashamed to read a book which sixty years ago I have heard read aloud for the amusement of large circles, consisting of the first and most creditable society in London...
Página 164 - It has been affirmed, that in Wales the land does not produce half of what it is capable of producing; and that if all England were as well cultivated as Northumberland and Lincoln, it would produce more than double the quantity that is now obtained.
Página 379 - ... have assailed their respective governments with applications for further protective or prohibitory duties and regulations, urging the example and authority of this country, against which they are almost exclusively directed as a sanction for the policy of such measures. And certainly, if the reasoning upon which our restrictions have been defended is worth any thing, it will apply in behalf of the regulations of foreign states against us.