Letters to 'The Times', 1884-1922private circulation, 1927 - 284 páginas |
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... wages , heighten the rate of taxation , descend into competi- tion with private business , and , after all , perhaps multiply the unemployed ' [ p . 175 ] . On the whole , Case's ideal of a constitution , so far as an ideal could be ...
... wages , heighten the rate of taxation , descend into competi- tion with private business , and , after all , perhaps multiply the unemployed ' [ p . 175 ] . On the whole , Case's ideal of a constitution , so far as an ideal could be ...
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... wages . His theory , clearly expressed in his first letter on Labour was that a strike , with picketing , is not merely a struggle of labour against capital but a struggle of labour against labour , of those who can at all events afford ...
... wages . His theory , clearly expressed in his first letter on Labour was that a strike , with picketing , is not merely a struggle of labour against capital but a struggle of labour against labour , of those who can at all events afford ...
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... wages to an uneconomic level , ' how can this great country hope to maintain a commercial position which was not won by fear but by freedom ? ' [ p . 157 ] . Case was a sturdy patriot , and had strong views concerning the necessity of ...
... wages to an uneconomic level , ' how can this great country hope to maintain a commercial position which was not won by fear but by freedom ? ' [ p . 157 ] . Case was a sturdy patriot , and had strong views concerning the necessity of ...
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... wages more and more absorb the profits . In other words , a forcible monopoly of employment will make the workmen who exercise it the real owners . Now , many of the employers in the railway companies , for example , are share- holders ...
... wages more and more absorb the profits . In other words , a forcible monopoly of employment will make the workmen who exercise it the real owners . Now , many of the employers in the railway companies , for example , are share- holders ...
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... wages at first . But a general rise in S wages would not only over - stimulate population , but THE LABOUR QUESTION 129.
... wages at first . But a general rise in S wages would not only over - stimulate population , but THE LABOUR QUESTION 129.
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Página 134 - Every person who, with a view to compel any other person to abstain from doing or to do any act which such other person has a legal right to do or abstain from doing, wrongfully and without legal authority — 1.
Página 189 - We believe that the intolerable wrongs done in this war by the furious and brutal power of the Imperial German Government ought to be repaired...
Página 254 - THE views of space and time which I wish to lay before you have sprung from the soil of experimental physics, and therein lies their strength. They are radical. Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality.
Página 279 - I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing, whatsoever he penned, he never blotted out line. My answer hath been, 'Would he had blotted a thousand'; which they thought a malevolent speech.
Página 36 - SWEET stream, that winds through yonder glade, Apt emblem of a virtuous maid — Silent and chaste she steals along, Far from the world's gay busy throng ; • With gentle yet prevailing force, Intent upon her destined course ; Graceful and useful all she does, Blessing and blest where'er she goes. Pure-bosom'd as that watery glass, And heaven reflected in her face.
Página 279 - No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Página 274 - And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish.
Página 208 - might be rendered another source of revenue more abundant, perhaps, than all...
Página 279 - ... emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end.
Página 121 - ... historical or philosophical. There is a narrow professional spirit which may grow up among men of science, just as it does among men who practise any other special business. But surely a University is the very place where we should be able to overcome this tendency of men to become, as it were, granulated into small worlds, which are all the more worldly for their very smallness. We lose the advantage of having men of varied pursuits collected into one body, if we do not endeavour to imbibe some...