English Social ReformersMethuen & Company, 1892 - 229 من الصفحات |
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¹ Cf abolition agricultural Author BARING GOULD became Carlyle Carlyle's cause Charles Kingsley Chartist Christian Christian Socialists Church classes College Craigenputtock Crown 8vo death edition England Erasmus evils fact factory factory reform father Fellow of Lincoln fourteenth century friends Gurth human idle Industrial History influence John Ball John Ruskin John Wesley King Kingsley's labour Lanark land landowners Langland living London Lord Ashley MABEL ROBINSON manufacturers master ment mills modern More's nation negro Oastler Oxford Parliament peasants perhaps persons Piers the Plowman poem political poor preaching present priests Prince question religious Revolution Richard Oastler Robert Owen Ruskin seems slavery slaves social reform Socialist society spirit teaching tenants things Thomas Thomas Carlyle thought to-day towns Unto This Last Utopia villeins volumes wages wealth Wesley's Wiklif Wilberforce William Langland words working-classes Yorkshire young
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الصفحة 72 - Such a society is no other than " a company of men having the form and seeking the power of godliness, united in order to pray together, to receive the word of exhortation, and to watch over one another in love, that they may help each other to work out their salvation.
الصفحة 5 - By what right are they whom we call lords greater folk than we? On what grounds have they deserved it ? Why do they hold us in serfage? If we all came of the same father and mother, of Adam and Eve, how can they say or prove that they are better than we, if it be not that they make us gain for 'them by our toil what they spend in their pride ? They are clothed in velvet, and warm in their furs and their ermines, while we are covered with rags.
الصفحة 125 - Never indeed was any man more contented with doing his duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him.
الصفحة 50 - I find His Grace my very good lord indeed, and I believe he doth as singularly favour me as any subject within this Realm; howbeit, son Roper, I may tell thee I have no cause to be proud thereof, for if my head would win him a castle in France (for then there was war between us), it should not fail to go.
الصفحة 193 - The law of nature is, that a certain quantity of work is necessary to produce a certain quantity of good, of any kind whatever. If you want knowledge, you must toil for it : if food, you must toil for it ; and if pleasure, you must toil for it.
الصفحة 172 - I know not whether this book is worth anything, nor what the world will do with it, or misdo, or entirely forbear to do, as is likeliest; but this I could tell the world: You have not had for a hundred years any book that comes more direct and flamingly from the heart of a living man.
الصفحة 51 - Pluck up thy spirits, man, and be not afraid to do thine office, my neck is very short. Take heed therefore thou shoot not awry for saving thine honesty.
الصفحة 60 - It is come,' I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment...
الصفحة 35 - There is a great number of noblemen among you, that are themselves as idle as drones, that subsist on other men's labour — on the labour of their tenants, whom, to raise their revenues, they pare to the quick. This, indeed, is the only instance of their frugality; for in all other things they are prodigal, even to the beggaring of themselves. But, besides this, they carry about with them a great number of idle fellows, who never...
الصفحة 204 - THERE is NO WEALTH BUT LIFE. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings; that man is richest who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost, has also the widest helpful influence, both personal, and by means of his possessions, over the lives of others.