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... estates . The steps by which beneficiaries became the real proprietors are familiar to almost all classes of readers ; it is enough for our present purpose to see that in Europe , as in Asia and South America , the soil was practically ...
... estates . The steps by which beneficiaries became the real proprietors are familiar to almost all classes of readers ; it is enough for our present purpose to see that in Europe , as in Asia and South America , the soil was practically ...
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... estate , and leave them to extract their own subsistence from it , at their own risk . They exact as a rent for the land thus abandoned , a ... estates to which they belong . 1 Appendix III ... Chap . ii . Sect . 1 . Labor or 18 Rent .
... estate , and leave them to extract their own subsistence from it , at their own risk . They exact as a rent for the land thus abandoned , a ... estates to which they belong . 1 Appendix III ... Chap . ii . Sect . 1 . Labor or 18 Rent .
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... estate of his landlord , employer , and judge , was an offence and an injury . This once sanc- tioned by law and usage , the chains of the serf were rivetted , and he became a slave , the property of a master . In Russia he is so still ...
... estate of his landlord , employer , and judge , was an offence and an injury . This once sanc- tioned by law and usage , the chains of the serf were rivetted , and he became a slave , the property of a master . In Russia he is so still ...
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... estates of all his subjects . fact is indicated by the number of royal serfs : of Russia . these , in 1782 , ten millions and a half belonged This Labor to the crown . body of people , that is to employ them , as they are employed by ...
... estates of all his subjects . fact is indicated by the number of royal serfs : of Russia . these , in 1782 , ten millions and a half belonged This Labor to the crown . body of people , that is to employ them , as they are employed by ...
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... estate and an efficient body of cultivators , fitted gradually to bring into action her great territorial resources . The tenants on the royal domains already appear to be , on the whole2 , in a condition superior to that of the serfs ...
... estate and an efficient body of cultivators , fitted gradually to bring into action her great territorial resources . The tenants on the royal domains already appear to be , on the whole2 , in a condition superior to that of the serfs ...
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