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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... 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 . " * the most contradictory opinions on the working ...
... 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 . " * the most contradictory opinions on the working ...
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... fact , it is an institu- tion rooted in our civilization , a step made in a path , that admits of no retrogradation . It is not merely , what the author has called it , 66 un fait accompli ; " it is a fact that carries with it an ...
... fact , it is an institu- tion rooted in our civilization , a step made in a path , that admits of no retrogradation . It is not merely , what the author has called it , 66 un fait accompli ; " it is a fact that carries with it an ...
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... fact a reward reserved for honesty , indus- try , and sobriety , and that a tenant guilty of any vice or immorality would at once be dismissed . Mr. Ashworth was said to be very strict in enforcing at- tention to cleanliness , both of ...
... fact a reward reserved for honesty , indus- try , and sobriety , and that a tenant guilty of any vice or immorality would at once be dismissed . Mr. Ashworth was said to be very strict in enforcing at- tention to cleanliness , both of ...
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... fact is , that the mass of the popula- tion is on the verỷ brink of sheer destitution , and that thousands are absolutely starving . I never heard of any one who ventured to assert that the growth of this physical property was in any ...
... fact is , that the mass of the popula- tion is on the verỷ brink of sheer destitution , and that thousands are absolutely starving . I never heard of any one who ventured to assert that the growth of this physical property was in any ...
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... fact that this is the nineteenth century , and who persist in regarding society as if neither its constitution nor its character had varied since the days of the Stuarts . The exist- ence of thousands of operatives dependent on manu ...
... fact that this is the nineteenth century , and who persist in regarding society as if neither its constitution nor its character had varied since the days of the Stuarts . The exist- ence of thousands of operatives dependent on manu ...
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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?
Page 60 - Lords and commons of England ! consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
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!