The Age and Its Architects: Ten Chapters on the English People, in Reference to the TimesPartridge and Oakley, 1852 - 456 páginas |
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... Universal Sister - Various Modes of Reforms - Reformation by Influence - The Mother -Wrongs of Woman in Trade - Injustice in Her Social Condition - Distinguished Women answer the charge of Woman's Powerlessness - Woman's Sphere CHAPTER ...
... Universal Sister - Various Modes of Reforms - Reformation by Influence - The Mother -Wrongs of Woman in Trade - Injustice in Her Social Condition - Distinguished Women answer the charge of Woman's Powerlessness - Woman's Sphere CHAPTER ...
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... universal awaken- ing of the nations to their right and destiny , by the fusion of parties , so interblending with each other , that we scarce can tell in what the distinction lies . Science is action , and this is the age of experiment ...
... universal awaken- ing of the nations to their right and destiny , by the fusion of parties , so interblending with each other , that we scarce can tell in what the distinction lies . Science is action , and this is the age of experiment ...
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... universal happiness now ? 6 Dr. Scott , of Derby , states , in 1836 , " I attended a family of thirteen , twelve of whom had typhus fever , without a bed , in a cellar , without straw or timber shavings - frequent substitutes . In ...
... universal happiness now ? 6 Dr. Scott , of Derby , states , in 1836 , " I attended a family of thirteen , twelve of whom had typhus fever , without a bed , in a cellar , without straw or timber shavings - frequent substitutes . In ...
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... universal spirit of monopoly - universal selfishness , that legitimate child of grasping and unsanctified trade . The holiness of com- merce needs to be vindicated . The compati- bility of the most extensive dealings with the highest ...
... universal spirit of monopoly - universal selfishness , that legitimate child of grasping and unsanctified trade . The holiness of com- merce needs to be vindicated . The compati- bility of the most extensive dealings with the highest ...
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... universal pouncing and swallowing . There were two very small fry indeed hard at it ; one yielded the contest , and resigned himself to be a meal for his more adroit brother of the pool . But scarce had he finished his meal when there ...
... universal pouncing and swallowing . There were two very small fry indeed hard at it ; one yielded the contest , and resigned himself to be a meal for his more adroit brother of the pool . But scarce had he finished his meal when there ...
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Página 419 - For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see — Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be...
Página 421 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known : riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none : No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil : No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too ; but innocent and pure : No sovereignty : — Seb.
Página 177 - ... sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching reformation ! others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement...
Página 422 - All things in common, nature should produce Without sweat or endeavour : treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine, Would I not have ; but nature should bring forth, Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
Página 290 - It is good also not to try experiments in states, except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident; and well to beware that it be the reformation that draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation.
Página 213 - Where Plenty smiles - alas! she smiles for few And those who taste not, yet behold her store, Are as the slaves that dig the golden ore, The wealth around them makes them doubly poor.
Página 186 - The limits of the sphere of dream, The bounds of true and false, are past. Lead us on, thou wandering gleam, Lead us onward, far and fast, To the wide, the desert waste. But see, how swift advance and shift, Trees behind trees, row by row, — How, clift by clift, rocks bend and lift Their frowning foreheads as we go. The giant-snouted crags, ho ! ho ! How they snort, and how they blow...
Página 295 - But the best state for human nature is that in which, while no one is poor, no one desires to be richer, nor has any reason to fear being thrust back, by the efforts of others to push themselves forward.
Página 267 - 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.
Página 60 - And yet it may then be the mode to assert that the increase of wealth and the progress of science have benefited the few at the expense of the many, and to talk of the reign of Queen Victoria as the time when England was truly merry England, when all classes were bound together by brotherly sympathy, when the rich did not grind the faces of the poor, and when the poor did not envy the splendour of the rich.