Political and social economy: its practical applicationsW. and R. Chambers, 1849 - 345 páginas |
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... Energy and Progress will cause an increase of Popu- lation beyond the means of Supply - Position of those who do not fulfil the Conditions of Advanced Civilisation - The Hand- loom Weavers , CHAPTER II . - LABOUR ( CONTINUED ) . The ...
... Energy and Progress will cause an increase of Popu- lation beyond the means of Supply - Position of those who do not fulfil the Conditions of Advanced Civilisation - The Hand- loom Weavers , CHAPTER II . - LABOUR ( CONTINUED ) . The ...
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... Energy and Progress will cause an increase of Population beyond the means of Supply - Position of those who do not fulfil the conditions of advanced Civilisation - The Hand- loom Weavers . On the primeval earth , the savage finds a few ...
... Energy and Progress will cause an increase of Population beyond the means of Supply - Position of those who do not fulfil the conditions of advanced Civilisation - The Hand- loom Weavers . On the primeval earth , the savage finds a few ...
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... energy with which she has endowed man ; and that the great distinctions in the human race are doomed to arise , not from the relative fruitfulness of the soil , but from the relative productiveness of the men who live on it . But to ...
... energy with which she has endowed man ; and that the great distinctions in the human race are doomed to arise , not from the relative fruitfulness of the soil , but from the relative productiveness of the men who live on it . But to ...
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... energy and enter- prise of man , to the scientific discoveries and inexhaustible labours of civilisation . The idea unfolds a mysterious future , like that which hovered before the sailors of Columbus , and suggested to them that the ...
... energy and enter- prise of man , to the scientific discoveries and inexhaustible labours of civilisation . The idea unfolds a mysterious future , like that which hovered before the sailors of Columbus , and suggested to them that the ...
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... energy and enterprise have opened up to us , and assuredly the twenty millions could not live with the same facilities and the same indi- vidual exertion that supplied the ten ; while , on the other hand , had the ten been informed how ...
... energy and enterprise have opened up to us , and assuredly the twenty millions could not live with the same facilities and the same indi- vidual exertion that supplied the ten ; while , on the other hand , had the ten been informed how ...
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Página 49 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Página 320 - Peace ... for setting to work the Children of all such whose Parents shall not by the said Churchwardens and Overseers, or the greater Part of them, be thought able to keep and maintain their Children; and also for setting to work all such Persons, married or unmarried, having no Means to maintain them, and use no ordinary and daily Trade of Life to get their Living by...
Página 135 - Does he not feel that it is as honorable to owe it to these, as to being the accident of an accident ? — To all these noble lords, the language of the noble duke is as applicable and as insulting as it is to myself. But I don't fear to meet it single and alone.
Página 325 - There are, at this day, in Scotland (besides a great many poor families, very meanly provided for by the church boxes, with others who, by living upon bad food, fall into various diseases) two hundred thousand people begging from door to door.
Página 325 - Many murders have been discovered among them ; and they are not only a most unspeakable oppression to poor tenants, (who, if they give not bread, or some kind of provision to perhaps forty such villains in one day, are sure to be insulted by them,) but they rob many poor people who live in houses distant from any neighbourhood.
Página 203 - The plough of each man was confined to the maintenance of his own family, or to the occasional accommodation of his neighbour.
Página 281 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Página 253 - Great in the earth as in th" ethereal frame; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze. Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees, Lives through all life, extends through all extent. Spreads undivided, operates unspent : Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part. As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns. As the rapt seraph that adores and burns: To him no high, no low, no great, no small ; He fills. he bounds, connects, and equals all.
Página 208 - Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes ; for thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left ; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
Página 13 - Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. Thro...