 ... has neither moral dignity, nor intellectual nor organic strength, to resist the seductions of appetite. His wife and children, too frequently subjected to the same process, are unable to cheer his remaining moments of leisure.  England and the English - Page 31by Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1834Full view - About this book
 | Peter Gaskell - Artisans - 1836 - 438 pages
...renders it difficult of digestion ; it dissolves slowly, and their stomachs do not * " The artisan seldom possesses sufficient moral dignity, or intellectual...power to cheer his remaining moments of leisure." — Moral and Physical Condition of the Working Classes, p. 25. t The increased consumption of tea... | |
 | P. Gaskell - Artisans - 1836 - 436 pages
...renders it difficult of digestion ; it dissolves slowly, and their stomachs do not * " The artisan seldom possesses sufficient moral dignity, or intellectual...power to cheer his remaining moments of leisure." — Moral and Physical Condition of the Working Classes, p. 25. t The increased consumption of tea... | |
 | P. Gaskell - Artisans - 1836 - 456 pages
...renders it difficult of digestion ; it dissolves slowly, and their stomachs do not * " The artisan seldom possesses sufficient moral dignity, or intellectual...have little power to cheer his remaining moments of leisure."—Moral and Physical Condition of the Working Classes, p. 25. t The increased consumption... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1836 - 572 pages
...wasted — his mind in supine inaction — the artizan has neither moral dignity, nor intellectual nor organic strength, to resist the seductions of appetite. His wife and children, too frequently subjected to the same process, arc unable to cheer his remaining moments of leisure.... | |
 | 1836 - 564 pages
...wasted — his mind in supine inaction — the artizan has neither moral dignity, nor intellectual nor organic strength, to resist the seductions of appetite. His wife and children, too frequently subjected to the same process, are unable to cheer his remaining moments of leisure.... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1840 - 616 pages
...produce of a week's toil. The Continental peasant is not selfish in his pleasure ; he shares his holyday with his family, and, not being selfish, he is not...Home has little other relation to him than that of shelter—few pleasures are there—it chiefly presents to him a scene of physical exhaustion, from... | |
 | Charles Bray - Cooperation - 1841 - 694 pages
...energy wasted, his mind in supine inaction—the artizan has neither moral dignity, nor intellectual nor organic strength to resist the seductions of appetite. His wife and children, too frequently subjected to the same process, are unable to cheer his remaining moments of leisure.... | |
 | Charles Bray - Cooperation - 1841 - 380 pages
...energy wasted, his mind in supine inaction—the artizan has neither moral dignity, nor intellectual nor organic strength to resist the seductions of appetite. His wife and children, too frequently subjected to the same process, are unable to cheer his remaining moments of leisure.... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1842 - 742 pages
...wasted — his mind in supine inaction — the artizan lias neither moral dignity nor intellectual nor organic strength to resist the seductions of appetite. His wife and children too frequently subjected to the same process are unable to cheer his remaining moments o leisure. Domestic... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Child labor - 1842 - 96 pages
...wasted — his mind in supine inaction — the artisan has neither moral dignity, nor intellectual nor organic strength, to resist the seductions of appetite. His wife and children, too frequently subjected to the same process, are unable to cheer his remaining moments of leisure.... | |
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