Hints for improving the condition of the peasantry in all parts of the United Kingdom, by promoting comfort in their habitations. Interspersed with designs for cottagesAckermann, 1816 |
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Sivu 2 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Sivu 2 - Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail, Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale ; Or press the bashful stranger to his food, And learn the luxury of doing good.
Sivu 7 - ... with every possible improvement for the country. I do not propose that you should expect any immediate amendment or public benefit from the plans suggested for the education of the poor. It is in vain to flatter yourselves that you can improve their minds if you neglect their bodies. Where have you ever heard of a people desirous of education, who had not clothes to cover them, or bread to eat ? I have never known that any people, under such circumstances, had any appetite for moral instruction.
Sivu 13 - ... convenience of the peasant and small farmer, as well as occasional retreats for persons of moderate income, Illustrated on Ten plates, handsomely engraved in aquatint, and embellished with picturesque scenery, ELEGANTLY COLOURED TO IMITATE THE DRAWINGS, to which are prefixed Introductory Observations of the cheapest, best, and most approved manner of building them, under the impression that the materials of every description will be found by the Landed Proprietor, to which are added explanations...
Sivu 26 - Peasantry iri all parts of the United Kingdom, by promoting comfort in their Habitations, interspersed with plans, elevations, and descriptive views of Characteristic DESIGNS FOR COTTAGES, contrived for the use and convenience of the peasant and small farmer, as well as occasional retreats for persons of moderate income...
Sivu 1 - ... our wealth, it is doubtless the duty of those in whose hands Providence has placed the means, to assist in promoting their welfare. The comforts and advantages derived in Society by their laborious exertions, make it absolutely necessary that the greatest pains should be taken to improve their...
Sivu 13 - ... it is doubtless the duty of those in whose hands Providence has placed the means, to assist in promoting their welfare. The comforts and advantages derived in Society by their laborious exertions, make it absolutely necessary that the greatest pains should be taken to improve their condition. It is therefore a subject of deep concern that the miserable state of their habitations in many parts of these countries have never been seriously taken into consideration.