 | Paul Lafargue - Poverty - 1908 - 194 pages
...seasons than to improvident consumption, was frequently endured. But after every" allowance of this kind, I should find it difficult to resist the conclusion...a family to his ancestors three or four centuries When the French Eevolution broke out in 1789 feudal property had not as yet succeeded in enfranchising... | |
 | Paul Lafargue - Future interests - 1910 - 170 pages
...seasons than to improvident consumption, was frequently endured. But after every allowance of this kind, I should find it difficult to resist the conclusion that, however the laborer has derived benefit from the cheapness of manufactured commodities and from many inventions... | |
 | Joseph Husslein - Christian sociology - 1919 - 384 pages
...shillings the quarter, and twelve pounds of meat at sevenpence. . . . After every allowance has been made, I should find it difficult to resist the conclusion that, however the laborer has derived benefit from the cheapness of manufactured commodities and from many inventions... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1820 - 894 pages
...seasons than to improvident consumption, was frequently endured. But after every allowance of this kind, I should find it difficult to resist the conclusion,...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... | |
 | Royal Statistical Society (Great Britain) - Great Britain - 1850 - 404 pages
...bushel of wheat at six shillings the quarter, and 241bs. of meat for his family. After every allowance I should find it difficult to resist the conclusion,...is much inferior in ability to support a family to hia ancestors three or four centuries ago*." It would seem that this happy state of things was a consequence... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1871 - 818 pages
...impartiality will admit, says : ' But after every allowance of this kind (bad harvests and the like) I should find it difficult to resist the conclusion...he is much inferior in ability to support a family than were his ancestors four centuries ago.' To occupy space in showing that, however we may have progressed... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1872 - 510 pages
...that, however the laborer of to-day is benefited by the cheapness of manufactured commodities, and many inventions of common utility, he is much inferior in ability to support a family to his ancestors of three and four centuries ago." Froude, also, is authority for the following statement : "Until the... | |
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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... 
