 | History - 1834 - 850 pages
...sums up the statement with this remarkable expression, which is true to the present day— "There is scarce a poor man in England of 40 years of age, i...numerous difficulties to which agriculture in this crtuntry is exposed, and amidst the distress which unhappily, exists, it is a consolation to your committee... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1809 - 372 pages
...as was not likely to occasion any general oppression. There is scarce a poor man in England of forty years of age, I will venture to say, who has not,...most cruelly oppressed by this ill-contrived law of settlements. I shall conclude this long chapter with observing, that though anciently it was usual... | |
 | Great Britain - 1833 - 426 pages
...remarkable expression, which is true to the present day, " There is scarce a poor " man in England, of forty years of age, " I will venture to say, who has not...settlement.'' Amidst the numerous difficulties to 413 418 which the agriculture in this country is exposed, and amidst the distress which unhappily exists,... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1833 - 850 pages
...remarkable expression, which is true to the present day, " There is scarce a poor " man in England, of forty years of age, " I will venture to say, who has not..." cruelly oppressed by this ill-contrived " law of settlement.1' Amidst the numerous difficulties to •which the agriculture in this country is exposed,... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1835 - 486 pages
...as was not likely to occasion any general oppression. There is scarce a poor man in England of forty years of age, I will venture to say, who has not in...his life felt himself most cruelly oppressed by this ill-con trived law of settlements. I shall conclude this long chapter with observing, that though anciently... | |
 | Portfolio - 1843 - 676 pages
...of natural liberty and justice ;" and " There is scarce a poor man of England of forty years of age, who has not, in some part of his life, felt himself...oppressed by this ill-contrived law of settlement." — Wealth of Nations, BIch. 10. For its effects sec also Haggle's " History of the Poor," Vol. I,... | |
 | David Urquhart - Great Britain - 1844 - 702 pages
...of natural liberty and justice ;" and " There is scarce a poor man of England of forty years of age, who has not, in some part of his life, felt himself...oppressed by this ill-contrived law of settlement." — Wealth of Nations, BI ch. 10. For its effects see also Ruggle's " History of the Poor," Vol. I,... | |
 | David Urquhart - Europe - 1844 - 666 pages
...of natural liberty and justice ;" and " There is scarce a poor man of England of forty years of age, who has not, in some part of his life, felt himself...oppressed by this ill-contrived law of settlement." — Wealth of Nations, BI ch. 10. For its effects see also Ruggle's " History of the Poor," Vol. I,... | |
 | Robert Pashley - Poor - 1852 - 516 pages
...was not likely to occasion any general oppression. There is scarce a poor man in England, of forty years of age, I will venture to say, who has not, in some part of life, felt himself most cruelly oppressed by this ill-contrived law of settlements."* " Break down... | |
 | 1853 - 166 pages
...carrying those principles into effect.] " There is scarce a poor man in England of forty years of age who has not in some part of his life felt himself most cruelly oppressed by the law of settlements." Such was the decision, eighty years ago, of the greatest master of domestic... | |
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There is scarce a poor man in England of forty years of age, I will venture to say, who has not in some part of his life felt himself most cruelly oppressed by this ill-contrived law of settlements. 
