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allies arms army assembly Austria battle became bestowed Britain British ceased century Christian church close command Congress of Vienna corn law crown defeat defence demand desire despotism Duke Duke of Wellington emperor empire endured enemy England English enormous Europe European evil favour fell fifty fighting force foreign forty fought France French gained German hostile House of Commons hundred thousand increased inflicted influence Italian Italy king labour land liberal liberty Lombardy Lord Lord Palmerston Louis Louis Philippe maintained manufactures ment military million sterling monarchs Naples Napoleon nearly neighbours nobles once overthrow Paris Parliament passed peace persons political poor pope population possession Prince prisoners progress reform regard resistance restoration revolution Russian scarcely shillings ships slaughter soldiers Spain strength success suffered supply taxed territory thirty throne tion troops Turkey Turkish Turks twenty universal suffrage utterly vast victory vote yielded
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الصفحة 135 - But it may be that I shall leave a name sometimes remembered with expressions of goodwill in the abodes of those whose lot it is to labour and to earn their daily bread by the sweat of their brow, when they shall recruit their exhausted strength with abundant and untaxed food, the sweeter because it is no longer leavened by a sense of injustice.
الصفحة 81 - ... paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately taxed from two to ten per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel ; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble ; and he is then gathered to his fathers — to be taxed no more.
الصفحة 82 - Heath avowed from the bench the theory which seemed to govern the criminal policy of the time. There was no hope, he said, of regenerating a felon in this life. His continued existence would merely diffuse a corrupting influence. It was better for his own sake, as well as for society, that he should be hanged. In 1816 there were, at one time, fifty-eight persons under sentence of death. One of these was a child ten years of age.
الصفحة 82 - And there were then occasions on which twenty were hanged, not one of whom had been convicted of the crime of murder. Have we not from that time made great and salutary and satisfactory advances in this question ? Is there any man who wants...
الصفحة 82 - If a man injured Westminster Bridge he was hanged. If he appeared disguised on a public road he was hanged. If he cut down young trees ; if he shot at rabbits ; if he stole property valued at five shillings ; if he stole anything at all from a bleach field : if he wrote a threatening letter to extort money ; if he returned prematurely from transportation ; for any of these offences he was immediately hanged.
الصفحة 90 - Children of six were habitually employed. Their hours of labour were fourteen to sixteen daily. The horrors among which they lived induced disease and early death. Law did not seem to reach to the depths of a coal-pit, and the hapless children were often mutilated and occasionally killed with perfect impunity by the brutalized miners among whom they laboured. There was no machinery to drag the coals to the surface, and women climbed long wooden stairs with baskets of coal upon their backs.
الصفحة 96 - Each little community sat apart from its fellows, following its own customs, oher> Miss Frances E. Willard'a " Glimpses of Fifty Years," p. 628. o Dan. xii. 4. ishing its own prejudices, feeding on its own traditions, speaking in a dialect which men from a distance failed to understand. A stranger was ipso facto an enemy.
الصفحة 81 - The feeling of the time was so entirely in favor of severity, that Edmund Burke said he could obtain the assent of the House of Commons to any bill imposing the punishment of death.
الصفحة 94 - In the course of time a process of physical deterioration was seen to be at work among the factory population. They were stunted in size, pallid and emaciated. They were scrofulous and consumptive, and had an aptness for every disease. The foundations were rapidly laid for a population, feeble, shortlived, and ignorant, and in all respects debased. The recruiting sergeant already complained that men suitable for the army could not be found in the manufacturing districts.
الصفحة 98 - A general coarseness of manners prevailed. Profane swearing was the constant practice of gentlemen. They swore at each other because an oath added emphasis to their assertions. They swore at inferiors because their commands would not otherwise receive prompt obedience. The chaplain cursed the sailors because it made them listen more attentively to his admonitions. Ladies swore, orally and in their letters. Lord Braxfield offered to a lady at whom he swore, because she played badly at whist, the sufficient...