Arthur Young
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Young
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Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
English traveller who documented French rural conditions before the Revolution
Arthur Young, who travelled just before and just after the outbreak of the Revolution, singles out certain French services for their especial grotesqueness, but feudal obligations nearly answering to several of them are mentioned by one or other of the witnesses examined by the Select Committee of the House of Commons on Copyholds which sat in 1850 and 1851.
immediately before it, Arthur Young, one of the most observant of English travellers, expresses himself as amazed at their multitude.
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Agricultural writer cited for observing the effect that property ownership has upon small owners.
It is among them that the possession of property exercises the magical effect attributed to it by Arthur Young.
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
English agricultural writer and traveller in pre-Revolutionary France.
A writer—I was going to say as commonly read as Arthur Young, but certainly as often mentioned as if he were commonly read—notices this morcellement, on the very eve of the French Revolution, and immediately after it, as the great feature which distinguished France from England.