The Mind and Art of Jonathan SwiftOxford University Press, 1936 - 398 pages |
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Page 250
... land on a great scale with the resultant hardships to the tenant farmers , who were sacrificed in order that cultivated land might be turned into the more profitable sheep - walks . As later events were to prove , the great increase of ...
... land on a great scale with the resultant hardships to the tenant farmers , who were sacrificed in order that cultivated land might be turned into the more profitable sheep - walks . As later events were to prove , the great increase of ...
Page 252
... land - owners persisted in retaining their sheep - walks and even enlarging them , and as a consequence the dearth of tillage was acute and land rents were enormously high . The miserable cottier who worked the soil and lived in his ...
... land - owners persisted in retaining their sheep - walks and even enlarging them , and as a consequence the dearth of tillage was acute and land rents were enormously high . The miserable cottier who worked the soil and lived in his ...
Page 253
... land- owners who continue to raise sheep in utter disregard of the restrictions upon the wool trade , then upon the country landlords who by the unmeasurable screwing and racking of their tenants ' have . . . reduced the miserable ...
... land- owners who continue to raise sheep in utter disregard of the restrictions upon the wool trade , then upon the country landlords who by the unmeasurable screwing and racking of their tenants ' have . . . reduced the miserable ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 3 |
CONTROLLING IDEAS | 49 |
The Battle of the Books AND A Tale of a Tub | 75 |
Copyright | |
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