Political and social economy: its practical applicationsW. and R. Chambers, 1849 - 345 páginas |
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... look back upon what they have done and be content - their destiny is still onwards , heaping above the labours of bygone ages other labours , whose greater compass obliterates or dwarfs them . Their citizens must say with the poet ...
... look back upon what they have done and be content - their destiny is still onwards , heaping above the labours of bygone ages other labours , whose greater compass obliterates or dwarfs them . Their citizens must say with the poet ...
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... look to the fact , that food must come from the surface of the earth ; and though the fertility of the human brain be inexhaustible , the extent of the earth's solid surface , and consequently of its productiveness , is limited . It is ...
... look to the fact , that food must come from the surface of the earth ; and though the fertility of the human brain be inexhaustible , the extent of the earth's solid surface , and consequently of its productiveness , is limited . It is ...
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... look back on the past with tenderness . " Then why am I here ? Why am I , and six hundred thousand subjects of the queen - honest , loyal , and industrious - why are we , after manfully struggling for years , and each year sinking lower ...
... look back on the past with tenderness . " Then why am I here ? Why am I , and six hundred thousand subjects of the queen - honest , loyal , and industrious - why are we , after manfully struggling for years , and each year sinking lower ...
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... look this phenomenon of invention and accelera- tion , of new discoveries substituting machinery for handwork , of capital bringing crowds together , that the subdivision of labour may have full scope , of rapidly - increasing ...
... look this phenomenon of invention and accelera- tion , of new discoveries substituting machinery for handwork , of capital bringing crowds together , that the subdivision of labour may have full scope , of rapidly - increasing ...
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... looks into the social economy of an English or Scotch manufac- turing district , in which the population has become thoroughly imbued with the spirit of productiveness , will observe that it is not merely the expertness , despatch , and ...
... looks into the social economy of an English or Scotch manufac- turing district , in which the population has become thoroughly imbued with the spirit of productiveness , will observe that it is not merely the expertness , despatch , and ...
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advantage agricultural amount applied aristocracy believe calamities capital capitalist Celts Channel Islands character civilisation consuetudinary cottars degradation districts duty Earlston Ebenezer Elliot effect elements emigration employed energy England evil exer exertion existence extent favour fortune France free trade fund give habits hand houses human race idle income increase individual indolence industry influence interest Ireland labour land landlord less live look Louis Blanc machinery mankind manufacturing means mendicancy ment misery moral nature neighbours never object obtain occupation operation organisation pauper peculiar perform perhaps persons political economy poor poor-law population portion possess practical present principle produce profits proprietors protection railway regulations require rich rience saving Scotland skill social society subsistence supply tion towns trade United Kingdom vagrancy wages wealth whole working-classes workmen
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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...