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... prietors , the owners of personal property , and the laborers , in the annual produce , gave occasion to a great deal of research , or rather perhaps a great deal of speculation . Such speculations were pur- sued the more earnestly ...
... prietors , the owners of personal property , and the laborers , in the annual produce , gave occasion to a great deal of research , or rather perhaps a great deal of speculation . Such speculations were pur- sued the more earnestly ...
Page xxv
... prietors and the cultivators , which are peculiar to each of these classes , and on their distinct effects in the societies in which they prevail , whether economical , political or moral . While tra- velling through this wide ...
... prietors and the cultivators , which are peculiar to each of these classes , and on their distinct effects in the societies in which they prevail , whether economical , political or moral . While tra- velling through this wide ...
Page 36
... prietors in Esthonia agreed among themselves on some preliminary regulations for the peasantry on their estates , which , it was avowed , were meant to pave the way to their ultimate emancipation . These Boox І. Sect . 5 . Chap . ii ...
... prietors in Esthonia agreed among themselves on some preliminary regulations for the peasantry on their estates , which , it was avowed , were meant to pave the way to their ultimate emancipation . These Boox І. Sect . 5 . Chap . ii ...
Page 57
... prietors , this authority is usually administered by the Amtmen , who , either as tenants or stewards , have charge of the domain . 2 In the west of Europe , as in France for instance , the pride of the nobility , and the connivance or ...
... prietors , this authority is usually administered by the Amtmen , who , either as tenants or stewards , have charge of the domain . 2 In the west of Europe , as in France for instance , the pride of the nobility , and the connivance or ...
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... prietors , as a body , to advance the science of agri- culture , or improve the conduct of its details , makes this mode of increasing the rents derived from the lands which the serfs hold , rare . It would be visionary to count upon it ...
... prietors , as a body , to advance the science of agri- culture , or improve the conduct of its details , makes this mode of increasing the rents derived from the lands which the serfs hold , rare . It would be visionary to count upon it ...
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3d Edit accumulation actual additional advance agricultural allotments amount auxiliary capital body Book capital employed capitalists causes Chap circumstances condition corn cottier rents crease cultivation decreasing Destutt de Tracy districts division domains duce earth effects England estates Europe existence extent Germany gradually Greece habits Hungary improvement Increase of Farmers industry influence interests labor rents land landlords laws less Livonia means ment Metayer Rents mode money rents nations non-agricultural classes observed occupied original owners paid peasant rents peasantry peculiar Persia Poland political population portion present prevail prietors produce rents productive power progress proportion proprietors quantity race raise rents rate of profits raw produce relative numbers revenue Ricardo rise of rents Russia Ryot Rents Sect SECTION Serf Rents share shew slaves society soil sovereign subsistence supposed tenantry tenants tillage tion tivation Turgot villeins wages wealth whole wholly
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Page 210 - ... no demand for any additional quantity of corn ; the capital and labour employed on No. 3 will be devoted to the production of other commodities desirable to the community, and can have no effect in raising rent, unless the raw material from which they are made cannot be obtained without employing capital less advantageously on the land, in which case No. 3 must again be cultivated.