The Glory and Shame of England, المجلد 2Bartram & Lester, 1866 |
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... writing for Englishmen . I was bringing home to my countrymen correct views of a state of society in a kindred nation , so revolting to humanity , and withal so little dreamed of as possible among a Christian community , that I found my ...
... writing for Englishmen . I was bringing home to my countrymen correct views of a state of society in a kindred nation , so revolting to humanity , and withal so little dreamed of as possible among a Christian community , that I found my ...
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... writer in human history . That position is well summed up by one of the ablest and best authorities which England can produce . I refer to Mr. Kay , in his " Social Condition and Education of the People of Eng- land . " Mr. Kay was ...
... writer in human history . That position is well summed up by one of the ablest and best authorities which England can produce . I refer to Mr. Kay , in his " Social Condition and Education of the People of Eng- land . " Mr. Kay was ...
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... brought into subjection to the will of the lord of the soil , who can turn them from their holdings at his pleasure . In a recent able article in the Westminster Review , the writer 310 MR . KAY'S INVESTIGATIONS . says : " In.
... brought into subjection to the will of the lord of the soil , who can turn them from their holdings at his pleasure . In a recent able article in the Westminster Review , the writer 310 MR . KAY'S INVESTIGATIONS . says : " In.
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... crowded bed - rooms much too horrible to be alluded to . Nor are these solitary instances , but similar reports are given by gentlemen writing in ALL parts of the country . PEASANT HEATHENISM . 313 " The miserable character of the.
... crowded bed - rooms much too horrible to be alluded to . Nor are these solitary instances , but similar reports are given by gentlemen writing in ALL parts of the country . PEASANT HEATHENISM . 313 " The miserable character of the.
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... writer found that , in the great majority of instances , the condition of the cottages was deplorably bad . The very ... writes : " But bad as are the tenements usually occupied by the poor , they are not , except in rare cases , quite ...
... writer found that , in the great majority of instances , the condition of the cottages was deplorably bad . The very ... writes : " But bad as are the tenements usually occupied by the poor , they are not , except in rare cases , quite ...
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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.