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Journal of the House of Lords
… them sufficient Assistance to begin; but that after a little while, from Calculations I have made, and which I have … be the most popular, and that it would be an Object, at a little Increase of Expence, to get them to work with us; and … but I am not aware that there was much done, except a little Home Manufacture for their own Use, except in …
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… the Cottages have been built as Matter of Speculation by little Freeholders. I think the principal Part belong to the great Landholders; but a great many belong to the little Tradesmen. Is there any Practice of excusing those … have; but many have none at all. Those who rent under the little Shopkeepers and Tradesmen that I alluded to before …
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… I am, and also Wiltshire and Devonshire; but I act but little in Devonshire. Will you have the goodness to state … the Afternoon. Of course, being my own Land, I gave them a little Remuneration of my own: but this was what they bond … employed? By no means. I found among the idle Labourers a little shifting, if I may use that Expression; but good …
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… action. Will you have the goodness to explain that Idea a little more fully? I mean that you will not increase the … not employed would be very small, and there would be very little Necessity for having recourse to Spade Labour. Do you … not be equally productive if Labourers were put, with the little Knowledge they have of Cultivation, upon it; but Land …
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… sell it for what it costs me; it costs me nothing but the little Trouble that attends it. Is it the Practice of your … That was established by Sir George Young's Sister, a little Girl, who, when she left the Country, turned it over … I can give no Reason except that I believe it wants a little Firmness and a little continued Exertion; and what is …
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… repay it when their Wages are higher? We do to some of the little Tradesmen, whose Trade is sometimes at a stand-still … generally is to get through their Time of Service with as little Trouble and as little Expence to the Parish as possible. Have those …
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… of Costs have been considerable upon those; but very little of the Rate has gone towards the actual Labour of … to drink? Water. They have no Cheese? No. No Tea? Very little. I have watched One and twenty Men dine together; I … of them eat Bread with what we call Seam, which is a little Fat rendered down. No Potatoes? No. [10] Where did you …
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… Churchwardens was, that if a poor Man was distressed, his little Property was soon appropriated, and from the Nature of … of a Portion of the Wages from the Poor's Rate, made the little Cottager in a worse Situation absolutely than the … every thing was calculated to cut down the poor Man's little Property; I kept it in this Way to prevent the …
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… smoke a Pipe, do not continue the full Time, and do very little Work. What do they give in your District for … by Persons who have not had Land, and they will invent a little Tale to make me suppose that a Plot will be vacant, … of October, when the Wheat Sowing is over, there is very little absolutely necessary Labour for the poor People, with …
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… affirmed to exceed 360,000 Persons. On the other hand, little or no Increase of Tillage seems to have taken place … a very severe Scarcity. If I am right in supposing that little or no Increase of Cultivation has taken place since …