 | Henry Hallam - 1818 - 670 pages
...benefit from the cheapness of manufactured commodities, and from many inventions of common utility, he is much inferior in ability to support a family to his ancestors three or four centuries ago. I know not why some have supposed that meat was a luxury seldom obtained by the * See these rates more... | |
 | History - 1820 - 848 pages
...benefit from the cheapness of manufactured commodities, and from many inventions of common utility, he is much inferior in ability to support a family, to his ancestors three or four centuries ago. I know not why some have supposed, that meat was a luxury seldom obtained by the labourer. Doubtless... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - Agriculture - 1826 - 502 pages
...Blomefield's Norfolk, as among the most valuable of our county histories. From it, and Cullum's History Our first position is, that the agricultural labourer...operation of temporary causes, this ability was less than it is at present; but as these temporary causes subsided, their effect disappeared; and the labourer... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1846 - 582 pages
...benefit from the cheapness of manufactured commodities, and from many inventions of common utility, he is much inferior in ability to support a family to his ancestors three or four centuries ago. I know not why some have supposed that meat was a luxury seldom obtained by the labourer. Doubtless... | |
 | Statistics - 1850 - 400 pages
...benefit from the cheapness of manufactured commodities, and from many inventions of common utility, he is much inferior in ability to support a family to his ancestors three or four centuries ago*." It would seem that this happy state of things was a consequence of the conversion of the tenants in... | |
 | Robert Blakey - Political science - 1855 - 556 pages
...benefit from the cheapness of manufactured commodities, and from many inventions of common utility, he is much inferior in ability, to support a family to his ancestors three or four centuries ago." * • Middle Ages, vol. 2. p. 433. •** As purely historical events and details exercise a great influence... | |
 | Robert Blakey - Political Science - 1855 - 558 pages
...benefit from the cheapness of manufactured commodities, and from many inventions of common utility, he is much inferior in ability, to support a family to his ancestors three or four centuries ago." * • Middle Ages, vol. 2. p. 433. •„• As purely historical events and details exercise a great... | |
 | 1860 - 528 pages
...from " the cheapness of manufactured com" modities, and from many inventions " of common utility, he is much inferior " in ability to support a family to his "ancestors three or four centuries ago:" In the time of the Tudors, the weekly wages of ordinary labourers would enable them to purchase twice... | |
 | 1860 - 828 pages
...from ' the cheapness of manufactured com' modifies, and from many inventions ' of common utility, he is much inferior 'in ability to support a family to his ' ancestors three or four centuries ago." In the time of the Tudors, the weekly wages of ordinary labourers would enable them to purchase twice... | |
 | John Hale Hunt - Currency question - 1862 - 300 pages
...benefit from the cheapness of manufactured commodities, and from many inventions of common utility, he is much inferior in ability to support a family to his ancestors three or four centuries ago." Q. 4. The merits of the Feudal System enumerated. — Illustrations of the growth of Usury since that... | |
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I should find it difficult to resist the conclusion, that however the labourer has derived benefit from the cheapness of manufactured commodities, and from many inventions of common utility, he is much inferior in ability to support a family, to his ancestors... 
