The Glory and the Shame of England, المجلد 2Harper, 1845 |
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... parliamentary reports I have examined , that the importation of sugar from India has trebled in the last nine years . " I have no doubt , " says the estimable Zachary Macaulay , " that sugar could be produced in India profitably at a ...
... parliamentary reports I have examined , that the importation of sugar from India has trebled in the last nine years . " I have no doubt , " says the estimable Zachary Macaulay , " that sugar could be produced in India profitably at a ...
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... Parliament published an estimate of the extent and population of the territories of British India , by which it appears that the East India Company have at the present time control over nearly 150,000,000 human be- ings . Their affairs ...
... Parliament published an estimate of the extent and population of the territories of British India , by which it appears that the East India Company have at the present time control over nearly 150,000,000 human be- ings . Their affairs ...
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... Parliament , painting in strong colours the hardship of their situation ; enjoy- ing neither the privileges of Europeans nor In- dians , to both of which they consider themselves entitled by blood . I was yesterday making some inquiries ...
... Parliament , painting in strong colours the hardship of their situation ; enjoy- ing neither the privileges of Europeans nor In- dians , to both of which they consider themselves entitled by blood . I was yesterday making some inquiries ...
الصفحة 69
... you some new thing about iniquity . " There are some persons who pretend to say that even the Imperial Parliament ( whose pow . er is supreme ) has no right to abolish slavery in the East Indies : " It is a civil , TREATMENT OF FEMALES. ...
... you some new thing about iniquity . " There are some persons who pretend to say that even the Imperial Parliament ( whose pow . er is supreme ) has no right to abolish slavery in the East Indies : " It is a civil , TREATMENT OF FEMALES. ...
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... parliamentary re- formers . Oh ! no ; it proceeds from quite an- other motive than this ; they wish to rend , be- cause they cannot rule the halls of Almack's . Besides , it was soon discovered that the Imperial Parliament was itself ...
... parliamentary re- formers . Oh ! no ; it proceeds from quite an- other motive than this ; they wish to rend , be- cause they cannot rule the halls of Almack's . Besides , it was soon discovered that the Imperial Parliament was itself ...
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Almack's American aristocracy beautiful better bless bread Britain British British empire British India Brougham Campbell CAMPBELL'S character Chartists Christian civilized conversation corn corn-laws cotton countrymen crime DANIEL O'CONNELL declare deep Dickens duty earth East India Company EDWARDS LESTER empire enemies England English English peasant eyes famine FAMINES IN INDIA favour feel friends genius glorious grievance Hall hand hear heard heart Heaven honour human interest Ireland Irish labour land liberty Limeric living London Lord Lord Brougham Loud cheers manufactures ment millions missionaries nation native never New-York NICHOLAS NICKLEBY O'Connell O'CONNELL'S oppression Parliament party passed persons poor present produce reform repeal Repeal Association scenes Sir Robert Peel slavery slaves speech spirit starving suffering suppose thing Thomas Campbell thousands throne tion Tories Whigs whole words wretched
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الصفحة 113 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
الصفحة 273 - Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth ; and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
الصفحة 77 - Thou art gone to the grave! but we will not deplore thee, Whose God was thy Ransom, thy Guardian, and • Guide ; He gave thee, He took thee, and He will restore thee, And death has no sting, for the Saviour has died.
الصفحة 274 - The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses. 15 What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord God of hosts.
الصفحة 155 - The features of Brougham, were harsh in the extreme; while his forehead shot up to a great elevation, his chin was long and square; his mouth, nose, and eyes, seemed huddled together in the centre of his face—the eyes absolutely lost amid folds and corrugations; and while...
الصفحة 251 - A labourer at present, earning twelve shillings a week, can only buy half a bushel of wheat, at eighty shillings the quarter, and twelve pounds of meat at seven-pence.
الصفحة 157 - Brougham was, at the outset, disjointed and ragged, and apparently without aim or application. He careered over the whole annals of the world, and collected every instance in which genius had degraded itself at the footstool of power, or principle had been sacrificed for the vanity or the lucre of place ; but still there was no allusion to Canning, and no connection that ordinary men could discover with the business before the House.
الصفحة 250 - Cullum observes, a harvest man had fourpence a day, which enabled him in a week to buy a comb of wheat ; but to buy a comb of wheat, a man must now (1784) work ten or twelve days. So...
الصفحة 250 - There is one very unpleasing remark which every one who attends to the subject of prices will be induced to make, that the labouring classes, especially those engaged in agriculture, were better provided with the means of subsistence in the reign of Edward 3rd, or of Henry 6th, than they are at present.
الصفحة 24 - ... heads, and but for which they might have earned their honest bread and lived in peace— how many died in soul, and had no chance of life— how many who could scarcely go astray, be they vicious as they would, turned haughtily from the crushed and stricken wretch who could scarce do otherwise, and who would have been a greater wonder had he or she done well, than even they, had they done ill— how much injustice, and misery, and wrong, there was, and yet how the world rolled on from year to...