| Thomas Douglas Earl of Selkirk - 1805 - 318 pages
...hands were ' requisite. And this is also the cause why victuals be ' now in many places dearer. Yea besides this the price ' of wool is so risen, that...this means very many be forced ' to forsake work and to give themselves to idleness.' From these observations of so great a man, combined with the testimony... | |
| Henry Mayers Hyndman - 1883 - 548 pages
...many hands were requisite. And this is also the cause why victuals be now in many places dearer. Yea, besides this, the price of wool is so risen that poor...this means very many be forced to forsake work, and to give themselves to idleness." * Here the whole process is once more described. Driven from their... | |
| Henry Mayers Hyndman - 1883 - 1044 pages
...many hands were requisite. And this is also the cause why victuals be now in many places dearer. Yea, besides this, the price of wool is so risen that poor...this means very many be forced to forsake work, and to give themselves to idleness." * Here the whole process is once more described. Driven from their... | |
| David Stewart - 1885 - 442 pages
...numbers, whereas about husbandry many hundreds were requisite. And this is also the cause why victuals now in many places be dearer; besides this, the price...tenderness, beyond what would have been shown to strangers, might have been expected towards the hereditary supporters of their families. It was, however, unfortunately... | |
| Howard Williams, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope - 1886 - 632 pages
...this, the price of wool Is so risen, that poor folk, which were wont to *ork it and make cloth thereoi, be now able to buy none at all, and by this means very many be forced to forsake work, and to give themselves to idleness. And after that BO much land was enclosed for pasture, an infinite multitude... | |
| Howard Williams, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope - 1886 - 634 pages
...this, the price of wool is so risen, that poor folk, which were wont to work it and make cloth thereot, be now able to buy none at all, and by this means very many bo forced to forsake work, and to give themselves to idleness. And after that so much land was enclosed... | |
| Thomas Mackay - 1889 - 320 pages
...victuals be now in many places dearer. Yea, beside this the price of wool is so risen that poor folks who were wont to work it and make cloth thereof, be now...this means very many be forced to forsake work and to give themselves to idleness. . .• . And though the number of sheep increase never so fast, yet... | |
| Thomas Mackay - 1889 - 328 pages
...victuals be now in many places dearer. Yea, beside this the price of wool is so risen that poor folks who were wont to work it and make cloth thereof, be now...this means very many be forced to forsake work and to give themselves to idleness. . . . And though the number of sheep increase never so fast, yet the... | |
| Thomas Mackay - 1889 - 328 pages
...victuals be now in many places dearer. Yea, beside this the price of wool is so risen that poor folks who were wont to work it and make cloth thereof, be now...this means very many be forced to forsake work and to give themselves to idleness. . . . And though the number of sheep increase never so fast, yet the... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - 1893 - 632 pages
...many hands were requisite. And this is also the cause why victuals be now in many places dearer. Yea, besides this the price of wool is so risen, that poor...this means very many be forced to forsake work, and to give themselves to idleness. For after that so much ground was inclosed for pasture, an infinite... | |
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