Texts for Students, Niteet 33–341923 |
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acre apprentices Arthur Young better bread bushel Camden Society century cloth coach coffee-house comfort common fields cottages custom David Davies districts districts of England dress drink earn employed employment England English entertained expense farms forty four frequently garden gentlemen give ground high prices hundred improvement inclosed inclosure increased industry J. H. Clapham Jonas Hanway journeymen kind kingdom ladies Lancashire land law of settlement linen Little Gaddesden live lodged London magistrates manner master milk necessary neighbouring obliged overseer paid parish parish workhouse pence persons Poor Law Poor's Rate pounds rent rich Roger North scarce Scotland servants shillings shillings a week sixpence small beer SMALL FARMER Social sometimes SPEENHAMLAND spinning strangers street tillage town trade Travels Tunbridge village wages weaver wheat whole wife winter women wool woollen workhouses yard-land yarn Yorkshire
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Sivu 47 - 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.
Sivu 118 - The gradual influx of wealth, and extension of commerce, have since united to render the present people of Scotland a class of beings as different from their grandfathers as the existing English are from those of Queen Elizabeth's time, The political and economical effects of these changes have been traced by Lord Selkirk with great precision and accuracy.
Sivu 97 - An eminent manufacturer in that age," said he, " used to be in his warehouse before six in the morning, accompanied by his children and apprentices. At seven they all came in to breakfast, which consisted of one large dish of water-pottage, made of oatmeal, water, and a little salt, boiled thick, and poured into a dish. At the side was a pan or basin of milk, and the master and apprentices, each with a wooden spoon in his hand, without loss of time, dipped into the same dish, and thence into the...
Sivu 92 - After we had mounted the third hill, we found the country, in short, one continued village, tho' mountainous every way, as before; hardly a house standing out of a speaking distance from another, and (which soon told us their business) the day clearing up, and the sun shining, we could see that almost at every house there was a tenter, and almost on every tenter a piece of cloth, or kersie, or shalloon, for they are the three articles of that country's labour...
Sivu 39 - I was very happy in this manner for some time, till one evening, coming home from work, two men knocked me down, and then desired me to stand. They belonged to a press-gang...
Sivu 39 - I lived an easy kind of a life for five years. I only wrought ten hours in the day, and had my meat and drink provided for my labour.
Sivu 40 - I chose the latter : and in this post of a gentleman I served two campaigns in Flanders, was at the battles of Val and Fontenoy, and received but one wound, through the breast here ; but the doctor of our regiment soon made me well again.
Sivu 115 - The poorer sort of farmers, and even the poor country people in general, who before that period spent their winter evenings in relating stories of witches, ghosts...
Sivu 105 - Still, however, the amusements of this place were neither elegant, nor conducted with delicacy. General society among people of rank or fortune was by no means established. The nobility still preserved a tincture of Gothic haughtiness, and refused to keep company with the gentry at any of the public entertainments of the place.
Sivu 92 - Among the manufacturers houses are likewise scattered an infinite number of cottages or small dwellings, in which dwell the workmen which are employed, the women and children of whom, are always busy carding, spinning, etc.