The Glory and the Shame of England, المجلد 2Harper, 1845 |
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... whole body . Perhaps there is no question now before the British people in which our country is so deep- ly concerned as the commerce and agriculture of the East Indies ; none which will so direct- ly , powerfully , and permanently ...
... whole body . Perhaps there is no question now before the British people in which our country is so deep- ly concerned as the commerce and agriculture of the East Indies ; none which will so direct- ly , powerfully , and permanently ...
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Charles Edwards Lester. ly , powerfully , and permanently affect the whole of our Southern and Southwestern States . My attention has been turned to this subject for a considerable time with deep interest ; and al- though I cannot admit ...
Charles Edwards Lester. ly , powerfully , and permanently affect the whole of our Southern and Southwestern States . My attention has been turned to this subject for a considerable time with deep interest ; and al- though I cannot admit ...
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... 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 , and tobacco ; and , at the same time , more adequately provide for her own population . * 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 , and tobacco ; and , at the same time , more adequately provide for her own population . * The ...
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... whole world . This valley is densely populated , and might be given up entirely to the growth of cotton , sugar , tobacco , and other valuable productions , getting its grain and provision from neighbouring provinces . ' 99 It appears ...
... whole world . This valley is densely populated , and might be given up entirely to the growth of cotton , sugar , tobacco , and other valuable productions , getting its grain and provision from neighbouring provinces . ' 99 It appears ...
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... whole subject , have come to the conclusion that they will turn their domains into cotton plantations , and divert into their own coffers the $ 30,000,000 that now flow annually into the pockets of the planters of the South . The ...
... whole subject , have come to the conclusion that they will turn their domains into cotton plantations , and divert into their own coffers the $ 30,000,000 that now flow annually into the pockets of the planters of the South . The ...
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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...