 | William Howitt - Germany - 1842 - 546 pages
...higher classes, which consists of their amusements rather than their business. In Germany the peasants are the great and ever-present objects of country...part, in the hands of the people. It is parcelled out amongst the multitude; and wherever you go, instead of the great halls, the vast parks, and the broad... | |
 | 1842 - 606 pages
...German peasantry : In Germany the peasants are the great and ever-present subjects of country-life. They are the great population of the country, because...the people. It is parcelled out among the multitude ; and wherever you go, instead of the great halls, the vast parks, and the broad lands of the nobility... | |
 | Child rearing - 1845 - 328 pages
...of life have fled, And I long to lay my aching breast THE GERMAN PEASANTRY. IN Germany the peasants are the great and ever-present objects of country...for the most part, in the hands of the people. It is parceled out among the multitude ; and wherever you go, instead of the great halls, the vast parks,... | |
 | Joseph Kay - Education - 1850 - 680 pages
...is admirable to see the crops which he obtains." " The peasants are the great and everpresent object of country life. They are the great population of...cut off from property in the soil they cultivate, and totally dependent on the labour afforded by others ; they are themselves the proprietors. It is,... | |
 | International law - 1851 - 462 pages
...this system the produce of the land is enormous. " The peasants are the great and ever present object of country life. They are the great population of...cut off from property in the soil they cultivate, and totally dependent on the labour afforded by others ; they are themselves the proprietors. It is,... | |
 | 1859 - 748 pages
...land till it is in the nicest order, and it is admirable to see the crops he obtains. The peasants are the great and ever-present objects of country...country, because they themselves are the possessors. The country is, in fact, for the most part in the hands of the people. It is parcelled out among the... | |
 | William M'Combie - Capital - 1852 - 116 pages
...to others for one morsel that he eats." Speaking of the Palatinate (Germany), Mr. Howittsays: — " The peasants are not, as with us, for the most part...cut off from property in the soil they cultivate. They are the proprietors. It is, perhaps, from this that they are probably the most industrious peasantry... | |
 | George Washington Julian - Civil rights - 1872 - 508 pages
...that nobody is ever out of work." Mr. Howitt, in his " Rural and Domestic Life of Germany," says : " The peasants are not, as with us, for the most part, totally cut off from property in^the soil they cultivate, totally dependent on the labor afforded by others — they are themselves... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1875 - 624 pages
...it is in the nicest order, and it is admirable to see the crops which he obtains."* "The peasants f are the great and ever-present objects of country...among the multitude The peasants are not, as with rs, for the most part, totally cut off from property in the soil they cultivate, totally dependent... | |
 | 1879 - 280 pages
...and it is admirable to see the crops which he obtains. The peasants are the great and ever present objects of country life. They are the great population...people. It is parcelled out among the multitude. The German peasants work hard, but they liare no actiu.d want. Every man has his house, his orchard, his... | |
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The peasant harrows and clears his land till it is in the nicest order, and it is admirable to see the crops which he obtains."* "The peasantsf are the great and ever-present objects of country life. They are the great population of the country, because... 
