The Glory and Shame of England, المجلد 2Bartram & Lester, 1866 |
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الصفحة 311
... cottage ' has ceased to mean what it once meant - a small house surrounded by its little plot of land , which the inmate might cultivate as he pleased , for the support and gratification of his family and himself . The small freeholds ...
... cottage ' has ceased to mean what it once meant - a small house surrounded by its little plot of land , which the inmate might cultivate as he pleased , for the support and gratification of his family and himself . The small freeholds ...
الصفحة 312
... cottage is to be found in all parts of England and Wales . " Cottages which have two stories , with one small kitchen room on the ground floor , and with another small room above on the first floor , in which the whole family , father ...
... cottage is to be found in all parts of England and Wales . " Cottages which have two stories , with one small kitchen room on the ground floor , and with another small room above on the first floor , in which the whole family , father ...
الصفحة 313
... cottages , because they know that they can easily let any of the existing cottages , no matter how wretched , owing to the great demand for house - room . " The crowding of the cottages has , therefore , of late been growing worse and ...
... cottages , because they know that they can easily let any of the existing cottages , no matter how wretched , owing to the great demand for house - room . " The crowding of the cottages has , therefore , of late been growing worse and ...
الصفحة 314
... cottages in Cambridgeshire , Hertfordshire and Leicestershire , rich and well cultivated counties , with farms generally of considerable size , Mr. Kay tells us , the peasants have no chance of ever rising to the farmer class . The cottages ...
... cottages in Cambridgeshire , Hertfordshire and Leicestershire , rich and well cultivated counties , with farms generally of considerable size , Mr. Kay tells us , the peasants have no chance of ever rising to the farmer class . The cottages ...
الصفحة 315
... cottages are only slightly improved from the old style , while their sites are at least as wretched as those of the old . This state of things has existed so long , that the wretched inmates very seldom think of complaining . They have ...
... cottages are only slightly improved from the old style , while their sites are at least as wretched as those of the old . This state of things has existed so long , that the wretched inmates very seldom think of complaining . They have ...
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الصفحة 446 - I impeach Warren Hastings of high crimes and misdemeanors. I impeach him in the name of the Commons' House of Parliament, whose trust he has betrayed. I impeach him in the name of the English nation, whose ancient honor he has sullied.
الصفحة 359 - Present! Heart within, and God o'erhead! 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. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.
الصفحة 363 - There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary are at rest. There the prisoners are at ease together ; They hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
الصفحة 450 - Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; Blow upon my garden, That the spices thereof may flow out.
الصفحة 444 - Under their old masters they had at least one resource: when the evil became insupportable, the people rose and pulled down the government. But the English government was not to be so shaken off. That government, oppressive as the most oppressive form of barbarian despotism, was strong with all the strength of civilization. It resembled the government of evil genii, rather than the government of human tyrants.
الصفحة 445 - With all his faults — and they were neither few nor small — only one cemetery was worthy to contain his remains. In that temple of silence and reconciliation, where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried...
الصفحة 443 - Every servant of a British factor was armed with all the power of his master ; and his master was armed with all the power of the Company. Enormous fortunes were thus rapidly accumulated at Calcutta, while thirty millions of human beings were reduced to the extremity of wretchedness.
الصفحة 397 - In these wretched dwellings all ages and both sexes, fathers and daughters, mothers and sons, grown up brothers and sisters, stranger adult males and females, and swarms of children, the sick, the dying, and the dead, are herded together with a proximity and mutual pressure which brutes would resist; where it is physically impossible to preserve the ordinary decencies of life; where all sense of propriety and self-respect must be lost, to be replaced only by a recklessness of demeanour which necessarily...
الصفحة 369 - Westminster, that we find the most flagrant traces of their swarming activity. There the foul and dismal passages are thronged with children of both sexes, and of every age from three to thirteen. Though wan and haggard, they are singularly vivacious, and engaged in every sort of occupation but that, which would be beneficial to themselves and creditable to the neighbourhood.
الصفحة 309 - Here, where the aristocracy is richer and more powerful than that of any other country in the world, the poor are more depressed, more pauperized, more numerous in comparison to the other classes, more irreligious, and very much worse educated than the poor of any other European nation, solely excepting Russia. Turkey, South Italy, Portugal, and Spain.