Observations on the Social and Political State of Denmark, and the Duchies of Sleswick and Holstein in 1851: Being the Third Series of the Notes of a Traveller on the Social and Political State of the European PeopleLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852 - Počet stran: 446 |
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Strana 137 - Laing's (S.) Observations on the Social and Political State of the European People in 1848 and 1849: Being the Second Series of Notes of a Traveller.
Strana 291 - This treatise presents views compatible with the idea that " every country has a political economy of its own, suitable to its own physical circumstances of position on the globe, and to the character, habits, and institutions of the people.
Strana 52 - With a large and increasing proportion of the small farms belonging to peasant proprietors working themselves with hired labourers, and of a size to keep from five to thirty or forty cows summer and winter, there are many large farms of a size to keep from two hundred to three hundred, and even four hundred cows, summer and winter, and let to verpachters, or large tenant farmers, paying money rents. This class of verpachters are farmers of great capital and skill, very intelligent and enterprising,...
Strana 446 - Dunham's British Dramatists 2 vols. 7s. 17. Dunham's Lives of Early Writers of Great Britain 1 vol. 3s. 6d.
Strana 445 - It is not easy to devise a cure for such a state of things [the declining taste for science] ; but the most obvious remedy is to provide the educated classes with a series of works on popular and practical science, freed from mathematical symbols and technical terms, written in simple and perspicuous language, and illustrated by facts and experiments which...
Strana 445 - Cyclopaedia's reputation as, in the words of a typical newspaper review, "one of the most valuable contributions that has ever been made to the cause of general knowledge and national education.
Strana 418 - P. 379. In regard to house accommodation, he says: — "The country people of Denmark and the duchies are well lodged. The material is brick. The roofing is of thatch in the country, and of tiles in the towns. Slate is unknown. The dwelling apartments are always floored with wood. I have described in a former note the great hall in which all the cattle and crops and wagons are housed, and into which the dwelling apartments open. The accommodations outside of the meanest cottage, the yard, garden,...
Strana 297 - ... import and consume. She stands alone in her corner of the world, exchanging her loaf of bread, which she can spare, for articles she cannot provide for herself, but still providing for herself everything she can by her own industry. This is no unhappy condition either for an individual or a nation.
Strana 292 - being altogether agricultural, not manufacturing, except for the home use of her own agricultural consumers, her population increases very slowly, and keeps very far behind the means of subsistence from the products of the soil. She is a living evidence of the falsity of the theory, that population increases more rapidly than subsistence where the land of a country is held by small working proprietors. There are large estates and small all over the country, estates of noblemen and gentlemen, and...
Strana 445 - BUT THE MOST OBVIOUS REMEDY IS TO PROVIDE THE EDUCATED CLASSES WITH A SERIES OF WORKS ON POPULAR AND PRACTICAL SCIENCE, FREED FROM MATHEMATICAL SYMBOLS AND TECHNICAL TERMS, WRITTEN IN SIMPLE AND PERSPICUOUS LANGUAGE, AIS'D ILLUSTRATED BY FACTS AND EXPERIMENTS, WHICH ARE LEVEL TO THE CAPACITY OF ORDINARY MINDS.