Fallacies and Tendencies of the AgeLongmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1871 - 251 pages |
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... CONDITION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE LABOURING CLASS , AND OTHER WORKS . LONDON : LONGMANS , GREEN , READER , AND DYER . YORK : SAMPSON , CONEY STREET . 1871 . Price 7s . 6d . Br 2180,4 ? 23 . 1872 , April Minot Fund CHAPTER.
... CONDITION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE LABOURING CLASS , AND OTHER WORKS . LONDON : LONGMANS , GREEN , READER , AND DYER . YORK : SAMPSON , CONEY STREET . 1871 . Price 7s . 6d . Br 2180,4 ? 23 . 1872 , April Minot Fund CHAPTER.
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... London - Effects of injudicious edu- cation - Apprehended agitation for a revision of the Elementary Educational Act - Rate - provided schools -Compulsory education - Apprehended attempt to destroy the Protestant Church 216 to 232 ...
... London - Effects of injudicious edu- cation - Apprehended agitation for a revision of the Elementary Educational Act - Rate - provided schools -Compulsory education - Apprehended attempt to destroy the Protestant Church 216 to 232 ...
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... London . " The language , however , still used by some members of what is designated the Advanced Liberal party , is often vulgar , as is also that used by some of the writers in Advanced Liberal journals . The views of parties ...
... London . " The language , however , still used by some members of what is designated the Advanced Liberal party , is often vulgar , as is also that used by some of the writers in Advanced Liberal journals . The views of parties ...
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... London . He was un- educated , but naturally possessed an extra- ordinary amount of shrewdness . On being ushered into his dining - room , his servant informed me that his master would be with me in a few minutes , and shortly ...
... London . He was un- educated , but naturally possessed an extra- ordinary amount of shrewdness . On being ushered into his dining - room , his servant informed me that his master would be with me in a few minutes , and shortly ...
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... London journals might have envied them had they seen them , and , out of spite , abuse shooting , for the reason the fox said the grapes were sour . 66 وو I hope you have enjoyed the day's sport , observed Mr. Duncan to his friend ...
... London journals might have envied them had they seen them , and , out of spite , abuse shooting , for the reason the fox said the grapes were sour . 66 وو I hope you have enjoyed the day's sport , observed Mr. Duncan to his friend ...
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Page 98 - Such is the aspect of this shore ; 'Tis Greece, but living Greece no more ! So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there.
Page 124 - The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable. The patrimony of a poor man lies in the strength and dexterity of his hands; and to hinder him from employing this strength and dexterity in what manner he thinks proper without injury to his neighbour is a plain violation of this most sacred property.
Page 76 - ORDER is Heaven's first law ; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More rich, more wise; but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense.
Page 41 - BREATHES there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd, As home his footsteps he hath turn'd, From wandering on a foreign strand...
Page 55 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No, — men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude — Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain...
Page 26 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Page 199 - Magna Charta, the Petition of Right, the Habeas Corpus Act, and the Bill of Rights.
Page vi - What stronger breast-plate than a heart untainted ? Thrice is he armed, that hath his quarrel just ; And he but naked, though locked up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.
Page 41 - From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go mark him well : For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim ; Despite those titles, power and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored and unsung.
Page 69 - ... and important. They are the guardians of the English constitution ; the makers, repealers, and interpreters of the English laws ; delegated to watch, to check, and to avert every dangerous innovation, to propose, to adopt, and to cherish any solid and...