 | 1861 - 610 էջ
...economy of the households of those small cultivators, in the respectability in which they lived. . . . The provident habits of these small farmers enable them to maintain a high standard of comfort Their marriages are not contracted so early as in Ireland, and the consequent struggle for subsistence... | |
 | Sir George Nicholls - 1838 - 32 էջ
...far as I could learn, there was no tendency to the subdivision of the small holdings ; I heard of c2 none under five acres, held by the class of peasant...enable them to maintain a high standard of comfort, and is necessarily opposed to such subdivision. Their marriages are not contracted so early as in Ireland,... | |
 | 1838 - 528 էջ
...they lived. As far as I could learn, there was no tendency to the subdivision of the small holding ; I heard of none under five acres, held by the class...acres is the more common size. The provident habits of the small farmers enable them to maintain a high standard of comfort. Their marriages are not contracted... | |
 | George Nicholls - 1838 - 192 էջ
...subdivision of the small holdings ; I heard of none under five acres, held by the class of peasant-farmers, and six, seven, or eight acres, is the more common...enable them to maintain a high standard of comfort, and are necessarily opposed to such subdivision. Their marriages are not contracted so early as in Ireland,... | |
 | William Chambers - 1839 - 102 էջ
...they lived. As far as 1 could learn, there was no tendency to the subdivision of the small holdings. 1 heard of none under five acres held by the class of...enable them to maintain a high standard of comfort, and is necessarily opposed to such subdivision. Their marriages arc not contracted so early as in Ireland,... | |
 | 1844 - 444 էջ
...these small cultivators, and the respectability in which they lived. As far as I could learn, there was no tendency to the subdivision of the small holdings;...enable them to maintain a high standard of comfort. Their marriages are not contracted so early as in Ireland, and the consequent struggle for subsistence... | |
 | Joseph Kay - 1850 - 680 էջ
...these small cultivators, and the respectability in which they lived. As far as I could learn, there was no tendency to the subdivision of the small holdings....enable them to maintain a high standard of comfort, and arc necessarily opposed to such subdivision. Their marriages are not contracted so early as in Ireland,... | |
 | 1851 - 366 էջ
...chiefly supported by the loom commonly occupy about an acre of land, sometimes more, their labour on the land alternating with their work at the loom....subdivision. Their marriages are not contracted so early as in Ireland, and the consequent struggle for subsistence among their offspring does not exist. The... | |
 | Henry Charles Carey - 1853 - 436 էջ
...learn, there was no tendency to subdivision of the small holdings. I heard of none under five acres hold by the class of peasant farmers ; and six, seven, or eight acres is the more common size. The average rent is 20*. an acre. Wages, KM. a day. " A small occupier, whose farm we examined near Ghent,... | |
 | robert scott burn - 1861 - 738 էջ
...economy of the households of those small cultivators, in the respectability in which they lived. . . The provident habits of these small farmers enable them to maintain a high standard of comfort. Their marriages are not contracted so early as in Ireland, and the consequent struggle for subsistence... | |
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I could learn, there is no tendency to the subdivision of the small holdings. I heard of none under five acres, held by the, class of peasant farmers, and six, seven, or eight acres, is the more common size. The provident habits of these small farmers... 
