The Historical Basis of Socialism in EnglandK. Paul, Trench & Company, 1883 - 492 pages |
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... farms in our modern sense was unknown . The relations between the various parties interested were in the main ... Farming with a view to profit alone was only just beginning . Though England at this time exported its superfluity of grain ...
... farms in our modern sense was unknown . The relations between the various parties interested were in the main ... Farming with a view to profit alone was only just beginning . Though England at this time exported its superfluity of grain ...
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Henry Mayers Hyndman. among the people they afforded , the improvements of the farms and of their own buildings which they carried out , the excellent work in road - making which they did a task specially necessary in those times - in ...
Henry Mayers Hyndman. among the people they afforded , the improvements of the farms and of their own buildings which they carried out , the excellent work in road - making which they did a task specially necessary in those times - in ...
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... farming , as well as to swell the ranks of well - to - do land- owners and farmers on the one side in the country ... farm labourers found themselves without employment , the houses of these unfortunates were therefore torn down , and ...
... farming , as well as to swell the ranks of well - to - do land- owners and farmers on the one side in the country ... farm labourers found themselves without employment , the houses of these unfortunates were therefore torn down , and ...
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... farms , declaring that this system had reduced " a marvellous multitude of people to poverty . It further stated that ten to twenty thousand sheep could now be seen on a single farm , and the statute ordained that no man should keep ...
... farms , declaring that this system had reduced " a marvellous multitude of people to poverty . It further stated that ten to twenty thousand sheep could now be seen on a single farm , and the statute ordained that no man should keep ...
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... farm of three or four pound by year at the uttermost , and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half - a - dozen men . He had walk for an hundred sheep , and my mother milked thirty kine . He was able and did find the king a harness with ...
... farm of three or four pound by year at the uttermost , and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half - a - dozen men . He had walk for an hundred sheep , and my mother milked thirty kine . He was able and did find the king a harness with ...
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