The aristocracy of Britain and the laws of entail and primogeniture judged by recent French writers, selections from Passy, Beaumont [and others. Transl.].1844 |
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abolition advantages ancient aristo aristocracy become betwixt Britain canton in France causes century church clergy constitution Corn Laws Court of Cassation courts cracy cultivation debt despotism disposal effects England English aristocracy entail and primogeniture established estates Europe evils exist fact farms father favour feudal fortunes France French Government greater number Guizot hands heir immense increased industry inferior classes influence institutions interests Ireland judges justice labour latter law of primogeniture laws of France legislation liberty Lord majorats means ment Merlin monarchial monopoly moral nation nature nobility NOTE object opinion opulent order of things Paris party passed Passy perty political economy popular possession present preserve prietors principles privileged orders proprietors prosperity reform rendered rent result Revolution rich rience ruin Scotland shew short parliaments Sismondi social society soil spirit taxes tion Tories wealth Whig party Whigs whilst whole William the Conquerer writers
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144 psl. - In ancient times, the sacred plough employed The kings and awful fathers of mankind : And some, with whom compared your insect tribes Are but the beings of a summer's day, Have held the scale of empire, ruled the storm Of mighty war, then with victorious hand, Disdaining little delicacies, seized The plough, and greatly independent scorned All the vile stores corruption can bestow.
93 psl. - Gay sprightly land of mirth and social ease, Pleased with thyself, whom all the world can please How often have I led thy sportive choir, With tuneless pipe, beside the murmuring Loire ; Where shading elms along the margin grew.
206 psl. - For then he was inspired, and from him came, As from the Pythian's mystic cave of yore, Those oracles which set the world in flame, Nor ceased to burn till kingdoms were no more...
93 psl. - And haply though my harsh touch faltering still But mock'd all tune, and marr'd the dancer's skill, Yet would the village praise my wondrous power, And dance, forgetful of the noon-tide hour. Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze, And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore, Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore.
193 psl. - ... of mind which this habit naturally forms, follows him when he comes to think of the improvement of land. He embellishes perhaps four or five hundred acres in the neighbourhood of his house, at ten times the expense which the land is worth after all his improvements ; and finds that if he was to improve his whole estate in the same manner, and he has little taste for any other, he would be a bankrupt before he had finished the tenth part of it.
189 psl. - Laws frequently continue in force long after the circumstances, which first gave occasion to them, and which could alone render them reasonable, are no more.
93 psl. - Pleased with thyself, whom all the world can please, How often have I led thy sportive choir, With tuneless pipe, beside the murmuring Loire ! Where shading elms along the margin grew, And freshen'd from the wave the zephyr flew.
190 psl. - In every other respect, nothing can be more contrary to the real interest of a numerous family, than a right which in order to enrich one, beggars all the rest of the children.
191 psl. - They are founded upon the most absurd of all suppositions, the supposition that every successive generation ok men have not an equal right to the earth, and to all that it possesses ; but that the property of the present generation should be restrained and regulated according to the fancy of those who died perhaps five hundred years ago.
163 psl. - Alas ! poor Caledonia's mountaineer, That want's stern edict e'er, and feudal grief, Had forced him from a home he loved so dear! Yet found he here a home, and glad relief, And plied the beverage from his own fair sheaf, That...