 | Samuel Laing - 1836 - 502 Seiten
...Scottish highlands. It is vastly better, however, in another respect — they have no rents to pay—being the owners of the farms they cultivate. Here are the...same thing of their slaves. If property is a good D 3 and desirable thing, I suspect that the very smallest quantity of it is good and desirable ; and... | |
 | 1837 - 664 Seiten
...labour. Which is the happiest state of the population ? • * * Our agricultural writers, indeed, tell us that labourers in agriculture are much better off...servants than they would be as small proprietors. We have only the master's word for this : — ask the servant." — Page 37. The question is, after all,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1848 - 622 Seiten
...land, and has not a third of its produce to pay as rent, can afford to be a worse farmer by one-third, than a tenant, and is, notwithstanding, in a preferable...that labourers in agriculture are much better off as farm-servants than they would be as small proprietors. We have only the master's word for this. Ask... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1849 - 638 Seiten
...land, and has not a third of its produce to pay as rent, can afford to be a worse farmer by one-third, than a tenant, and is, notwithstanding, in a preferable...that labourers in agriculture are much better off as farm-servants than they would be as small proprietors. We have only the master's word for this. Ask... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1886 - 620 Seiten
...land on the roadside, outside of their hedges.' He also derides ' the agricultural writers ' who ' tell us, indeed, that labourers in agriculture are...servants, than they would be as small proprietors,' for ' if property is a good and desirable thing, the very smallest quantity of it is good and desirable.'... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1909 - 1086 Seiten
...land, and has not a third of its produce to pay as rent, can afford to be a worse farmer by one-third, than a tenant, and is, notwithstanding, in a preferable...writers tell us, indeed, that labourers in agriculture arc much better off as farm-servants than they would be a.< small proprietors. We have only the master's... | |
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It has more effect on their numbers than on their condition. The producer of grain, who is working for himself only, who is owner of his land, and has not a third of its produce to pay as rent, can afford to be a worse farmer, by one third, than a tenant,... 