Notes of a Tour in the Manufacturing Districts of Lancashire: In a Series of Letters to His Grace the Archbishop of Dublin |
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... continued , I was perplexed by the most simple facts , and incapable of discovering their most obvious relations . A great step was gained when I comprehended that the subject I proposed to examine was an " established innovation ...
... continued , I was perplexed by the most simple facts , and incapable of discovering their most obvious relations . A great step was gained when I comprehended that the subject I proposed to examine was an " established innovation ...
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... continued , I must remark that the toil is not very great , nor is it incessant . The heaviest part of the labour is executed by the steam - engine or the water - wheel ; and there are so many intervals of rest , that I am under the ...
... continued , I must remark that the toil is not very great , nor is it incessant . The heaviest part of the labour is executed by the steam - engine or the water - wheel ; and there are so many intervals of rest , that I am under the ...
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... continued , " they once get it into their heads that no remedy is to be expected , there will be no safety in Burnley for any man with a decent coat to his back . " From the conversations which I subsequently had with several of the ...
... continued , " they once get it into their heads that no remedy is to be expected , there will be no safety in Burnley for any man with a decent coat to his back . " From the conversations which I subsequently had with several of the ...
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... continued until the material was no longer able to hold the thread . There were two boys , sons of a widow , one of eleven and one of nine ; between both a decent suit could be mustered , and they went to the Sunday - school on ...
... continued until the material was no longer able to hold the thread . There were two boys , sons of a widow , one of eleven and one of nine ; between both a decent suit could be mustered , and they went to the Sunday - school on ...
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... continued in full employment . Here I heard some fine illustrations of that which had been very often forced upon my atten- tion during these investigations — the unsuspected ex- tent of the charity of the poor to the poor . The widow ...
... continued in full employment . Here I heard some fine illustrations of that which had been very often forced upon my atten- tion during these investigations — the unsuspected ex- tent of the charity of the poor to the poor . The widow ...
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Page 61 - What could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge ? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil but wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies...
Page 96 - Lord, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation. Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time ? Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
Page 290 - The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: For ye have eaten up the vineyard; The spoil of the poor is in your houses. What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, And grind the faces of the poor? Saith the Lord God of hosts.
Page 158 - Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke ? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him ; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
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Page 94 - The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.
Page 164 - one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.
Page 94 - Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city. They say to their mothers, "Where is corn and wine?" when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers
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Page 94 - Alas! regardless of their doom The little victims play; No sense have they of ills to come Nor care beyond to-day: Yet see how all around 'em wait The ministers of human fate And black Misfortune's baleful train!