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Excerpt from More's Utopia He next complains of the raising Of rents beyond the real value of the land, of the number of idle retainers who when their masters die must steal or starve, of the unnecessary multitudes of soldiers that are kept, of the decay of husbandry, and the great evil of increased sheep-farming, seeing that it employs few men while husbandry furnishes work and wages for many. He then proceeds to point out the dearness of all commodities in the land, victuals, wool and cattle; 'speaks in strong terms of the licentiousness in manners and of the greed of the rich, who by monopolies and engrossing regulate the markets just as they please. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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 imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Prose: non-fiction Literary essays

• Full title: More's Utopia (Classic Reprint)
• Author: Thomas More
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 348
• EAN: 9781331938279
• ISBN: 9781331938279
• ID: 09800469
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Weight: 467 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 21. July 2015

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