The Laborer; a Remedy for His Wrongs: Or, A Disquisition on the Usages of SocietyW. Dealtry, compositor, 1869 - 420 من الصفحات |
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... Lord Kame's History of Man , four volumes . Wesley's Works , thirty volumes , edition of 1780 . Kay's Social condition of England . Pridden's History and present condition of Australia . Howitt's Rural Life in England . Abbott's life of ...
... Lord Kame's History of Man , four volumes . Wesley's Works , thirty volumes , edition of 1780 . Kay's Social condition of England . Pridden's History and present condition of Australia . Howitt's Rural Life in England . Abbott's life of ...
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... Lords ; he told them they were robbers of the people . Bulwer says the writings of the social philosophers of last century are not generally known . If this collection of opinions and histor- ical facts shall teach the young , to think ...
... Lords ; he told them they were robbers of the people . Bulwer says the writings of the social philosophers of last century are not generally known . If this collection of opinions and histor- ical facts shall teach the young , to think ...
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... Lord Bolingbroke , in the time of Queen Anne , said , if every man would work one year , it would maintain him twenty years . Franklin tells us " If every one would labor four hours a day , at something useful , poverty and want would ...
... Lord Bolingbroke , in the time of Queen Anne , said , if every man would work one year , it would maintain him twenty years . Franklin tells us " If every one would labor four hours a day , at something useful , poverty and want would ...
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... Lord Brougham has , in his writings on the nature of la- bor - saving machinery , declared : " That after the most careful investigation of the subject in England , with its present advantages in labor - saving machinery , but twenty ...
... Lord Brougham has , in his writings on the nature of la- bor - saving machinery , declared : " That after the most careful investigation of the subject in England , with its present advantages in labor - saving machinery , but twenty ...
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... lords of Britain knew that , being surround- ed with water , the laborers could not escape , and that they * Ammianus Marcellinus , lib . , xiv . c . 25. † See Gibbon's Roman Empire . would still contribute to their idleness and luxury ...
... lords of Britain knew that , being surround- ed with water , the laborers could not escape , and that they * Ammianus Marcellinus , lib . , xiv . c . 25. † See Gibbon's Roman Empire . would still contribute to their idleness and luxury ...
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الصفحة 385 - IF you should see a flock of pigeons in a field of corn; and if (instead of each picking where and what it liked, taking just as much as it wanted, and no more) you should see ninety-nine of them gathering all they got into a heap; reserving nothing for themselves but the chaff and the refuse; keeping this heap for one, and that the weakest perhaps...
الصفحة 385 - ... worst, pigeon of the flock; sitting round, and looking on all the winter, whilst this one was devouring, throwing about, and wasting it ; and if a pigeon more hardy or hungry than the rest, touched a grain of the hoard, all the others instantly flying upon it, and tearing it to pieces ; if you should see this, you would see nothing more than what is every day' practised and established among men.
الصفحة 376 - Why was an independent wish E'er planted in my mind ? If not, why am I subject to His cruelty, or scorn ? Or why has man the will and pow'r To make his fellow mourn...
الصفحة 205 - York, the project was viewed by the public either with indifference or with contempt, as a visionary scheme. My friends, indeed, were civil, but they were shy. They listened with patience to my explanations, but with a settled cast of incredulity on their countenances. I felt the full force of the lamentation of the poet, • " Truths would you teach, to save a sinking land, All shun, none aid you, and few understand.
الصفحة 238 - It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
الصفحة 266 - Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country, and wedded to its liberty and interests, by the most lasting bonds.
الصفحة 348 - A man who is born into a world already possessed, if he cannot get subsistence from his parents on whom he has a just demand, and if the society do not want his labour, has no claim of right to the smallest portion of food, and, in fact, has no business to be where he is. At nature's mighty feast there is no vacant cover for him. She tells him to be gone, and will quickly execute her own orders, if he do not work upon the compassion of some of her guests.
الصفحة 376 - ... condition. It is for the man in humble life, and to raise his nature, and to put him in mind of a state in which the privileges of opulence will cease, when he will be equal by nature, and may be more than equal by virtue, that this portion of the general wealth of his country is employed and sanctified.
الصفحة 344 - ... for as the severity was too great, so the remedy was not effectual; simple theft not being so great a crime that it ought to cost a man his life, no punishment how severe soever being able to restrain those from robbing who can find out no other way of livelihood. 'In this...
الصفحة 255 - Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure In heart: for they shall see God. Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. Blessed are they which are persecuted for...