The Glory and the Shame of England, المجلد 2Harper, 1845 |
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... labour , com- pete with them . British India comprises a tract of country nearly as large as the whole United States , with 150,000,000 of people , and can easily be made to supply the entire demand of Great Britain for cotton , rice ...
... labour , com- pete with them . British India comprises a tract of country nearly as large as the whole United States , with 150,000,000 of people , and can easily be made to supply the entire demand of Great Britain for cotton , rice ...
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... labour ( acknowledged to be more expensive ) to compete with the free- grown products of the British empire . The English abolitionists feel that every shilling which goes out of Great Britain for cotton , or any other slave - grown ...
... labour ( acknowledged to be more expensive ) to compete with the free- grown products of the British empire . The English abolitionists feel that every shilling which goes out of Great Britain for cotton , or any other slave - grown ...
الصفحة 42
... labour annually , and only 45,000,000 pounds which proceed from free labour ; and that , too , while you have the means in India , at a very little expense , of obtaining all you require from free labour . " Said a distinguished author ...
... labour annually , and only 45,000,000 pounds which proceed from free labour ; and that , too , while you have the means in India , at a very little expense , of obtaining all you require from free labour . " Said a distinguished author ...
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... labour at the South , the planters will not be able to stand so many chances against them . If we have been able to produce the same article with a rich soil and ingenious machinery , it does not stand to reason that other countries ...
... labour at the South , the planters will not be able to stand so many chances against them . If we have been able to produce the same article with a rich soil and ingenious machinery , it does not stand to reason that other countries ...
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... labour of three millions of black slaves in America unproduc- tive and of no value . This will be done . There is no vacillation or weakness of purpose in the English character . ( Cheers . ) All India will , in a year or two , teem ...
... labour of three millions of black slaves in America unproduc- tive and of no value . This will be done . There is no vacillation or weakness of purpose in the English character . ( Cheers . ) All India will , in a year or two , teem ...
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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...