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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from Histoire du Travail Et des Salaires en Angleterre Depuis la Fin du Xiiie SiècleOn me reprochera sans doute de m'être, dans un sujet absolument inexploré, abstenu de citer mes sources. Pour la moitié de la période que j'étudie, j'aurais pu ren voyer a mes propres publications, et pour le siècle et demi suivant, invoquer mes notes manuscrites et les tableaux qu'elles m'ont permis de dresser. Ma situation était exceptionnellement dif...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from The Economic Interpretation of History, Vol. 2: Lectures Delivered in Worcester College Hall, Oxford, 1887-8About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing impe...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Vol. 6: From the Year After the Oxford Parliamentary, 1259, to the Commencement of the Continental War, 1793, 1583 1702About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the...

Excerpt from A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Vol. 1: From the Year After the Oxford Parliament (1259) To the Commencement of the Continental War (1793), Compiled Entirely From Original and Contemporaneous RecordsI anticipate that the facts and comments contained in these volumes will attract but few readers. The form of such a work is necessarily repulsive, and the dry details of business transacted many centuries ago will have...

Excerpt from A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Vol. 7: From the Year After the Oxford Parliament (1259) To the Commencement of the Continental War (1793), Compiled Entirely From Original and Contemporaneous Records, 1703-1793, Part IIThe entries printed in the second part of this volume are of a different character from those contained in the first. The first table is a collection of miscellaneous prices that could not properly b...

Excerpt from The Industrial and Commercial History of England, Vol. 1: Lectures Delivered to the University of OxfordAn acquaintance with the main theories of the older economists is sufficient for the schools. Let the Professor of Political Economy teach what he will, even the undergraduates who seek honours in the history school, soon drop away. In this way it came about that these lectures were attended by an extremely small audience. Had t...

Excerpt from A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, 1401 1582, Vol. 3: From the Year After the Oxford Parliament, 1259, to the Commencement of the Continental War, 1793The most valuable facts contained in this volume are derived from the records preserved in the Oxford and Cambridge Colleges. There are a few farm accounts of New College, which continued the practice of agriculture on account of the corporation for about thirty-five ye...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from Epistles, Satires, and EpigramsTricked out by dainty paper, clad in blue, Marked with some quaint device and lettered too, Like a weak bird, in gaudy plumage dressed, You strive, poor book, to ¿utter from your nest, And win attention from the noisy throng.Will they believe your twitter is a song? Bentley, forsooth, must tell your little all 1, And Smith2 must vend you at the station-stall.About the PublisherForgotten Books publish...

Excerpt from Six Centuries of Work and Wages: The History of English LabourWith few exceptions, the anglo-saxon lords were de graded, and assumed a lower social position, or were wholly dispossessed, and sought their fortunes in other countries. But the higher social element of the residual English was still strong enough to be useful to the sovereign in an emergency, and the lower retained and clung to their local institutions. It was therefo...

Excerpt from The Free Trade Policy of the Liberal Party: A Speech Delivered at Pendleton, September 30, 1868ON Wednesday evening, September 3oth, 1868, at the Pendleton Club, Charlestown, Henry Rawson, Esq., in the chair, Professor J. E. Thorold rogers spoke as follows upon the free trade policy of the Liberal party.Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen, - There are, perhaps, several reasons why at the present crisis the attention, not of you only, but a...

Excerpt from Education in Oxford: Its Method, Its Aids, and Its RewardsThe author of the following pages has more than one purpose in what he has written, and hopes to attract the attention of more than one class of readers.First of all, he wishes to give information to that very large body of persons who may think of placing their sons in the University of Oxford, but who know nothing but what is very vague about the studies of the university...

Excerpt from The British Citizen, His Rights and Privileges: A Short HistoryBut the early promise of these nations passed away. The genius and the free institutions of Italy had a very short duration. The manu factures of Flanders and southern France were well-nigh extirpated. The parliaments of Spain and France were silenced, and the liberties of the people were violently reft from them. The trading Cities and markets of the Middle Ages, the ...

Excerpt from Social EconomyThe object of this little book is to give instruction in the rudiments of social science, and to do so in such language and in such a form as will make the subject clear to the youngest students, The author has stated what he has to say in the shape of a series of lessons, each of which should be carefully read and understood before the pupil passes on to the next. It is hoped that when he has read through the whole,...

Excerpt from Six Centuries of Work and Wages, Vol. 1: The History of English LabourThe economical history Of England is illustrated with Singular clearness towards the end Of the eleventh century, by that great survey Of the whole kingdom, with the exception Of the four northern counties and part Of Lancashire, which is known as Domesday Book. This unique and invaluable record, which has never yet been adequately analysed, is a register Of lan...