Knight's Penny Magazine, Volúmenes1-2Charles Knight, 1846 |
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... means of subsistence . We may fairly assume that four - fifths of the whole population depend upon wages . It is a law as certain as the law of gravitation , that the rate of wages depends upon the supply of labour as compared with the ...
... means of subsistence . We may fairly assume that four - fifths of the whole population depend upon wages . It is a law as certain as the law of gravitation , that the rate of wages depends upon the supply of labour as compared with the ...
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... means of consumption remained the same to the great body of consumers , the prices of provisions would continue to rise from the scarcity price to the famine price . The pound of bread would with difficulty be bought for sixpence ...
... means of consumption remained the same to the great body of consumers , the prices of provisions would continue to rise from the scarcity price to the famine price . The pound of bread would with difficulty be bought for sixpence ...
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... means of raising food ; or to make such arrangements for receiving food from other coun- tries , as will employ our increasing millions in providing manufactures in exchange ; or sending our increasing population to colonies which have ...
... means of raising food ; or to make such arrangements for receiving food from other coun- tries , as will employ our increasing millions in providing manufactures in exchange ; or sending our increasing population to colonies which have ...
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... means accurate in their use of them . They have been in the habit , for several centuries , of delivering the most absolute judgments upon all social questions , and many private ones . Abundant records have been preserved of these ...
... means accurate in their use of them . They have been in the habit , for several centuries , of delivering the most absolute judgments upon all social questions , and many private ones . Abundant records have been preserved of these ...
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... means of supplying food to a craving household , his supplemental luxuries of clothing and of furniture were sometimes obtained by barter with the people of the towns , not unfre- quently won by the strong hand , and in all cases ...
... means of supplying food to a craving household , his supplemental luxuries of clothing and of furniture were sometimes obtained by barter with the people of the towns , not unfre- quently won by the strong hand , and in all cases ...
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Página 226 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Página 92 - I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of God upon these barbarous wretches, who have imbrued their hands in so much innocent blood ; and that it will tend to prevent the effusion of blood for the future. Which are the satisfactory grounds to such actions, which otherwise cannot but work remorse and regret.
Página 254 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. "But not the praise...
Página 224 - When you kissed your lily hands to your lemans today; And to-morrow shall the fox, from her chambers in the rocks, Lead forth her tawny cubs to howl above the prey. Where be your tongues that late...
Página 249 - Whep he saw a gasping knight lie there, With a gash beneath his clotted hair, And a hump upon his shoulder. And the loyal churchman strove in vain . To mutter a Pater...
Página 19 - I judge this to be true, and utter it with heaviness, — that neither the Britons under the Romans and Saxons, nor yet the English people under the Danes and Normans, had ever such damage of their learned monuments, as we have seen in our time. Our posterity may well curse this wicked fact of our age, this unreasonable spoil of England's most noble antiquities."* 4.
Página 206 - O Printing! how hast thou disturbed the peace of mankind! That lead, when moulded into bullets, is not so mortal, as when founded into letters. There was a mistake, sure, in the story of Cadmus; and the serpent's teeth, which he sowed, were nothing else but the letters which he invented.
Página 225 - Some books also may be read by deputy and extracts made of them by others but that would be only in the less important arguments and the meaner sort of books else distilled books are like common distilled waters flashy things.
Página 249 - And the Priest was ready to vomit, When he hauled out a gentleman, fine and fat, With a belly as big as a brimming vat, And a nose as red as a comet. " A capital stew," the Fisherman said,
Página 83 - Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul!