Fallacies and Tendencies of the AgeLongmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1871 - 251 pages |
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... employers 19 to 28 ·· CHAPTER II . Grouse shooting - Dog - breaking - Pigeon - shooting- Gambling , and the result of it - Interview with a gambler - Morbid feeling respecting field sports 29 to 38 CHAPTER III . Description of a ...
... employers 19 to 28 ·· CHAPTER II . Grouse shooting - Dog - breaking - Pigeon - shooting- Gambling , and the result of it - Interview with a gambler - Morbid feeling respecting field sports 29 to 38 CHAPTER III . Description of a ...
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... employer , and not be permitted to receive gratuities , when keepers would become better servants , and guests would be impartially treated ; whereas under the ... employers in a variety of ways . Now , your man , Donald , although an old 27.
... employer , and not be permitted to receive gratuities , when keepers would become better servants , and guests would be impartially treated ; whereas under the ... employers in a variety of ways . Now , your man , Donald , although an old 27.
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... employers are incapable of managing beats , dogs , and shoot- ing in coverts , that keepers change places with their employers . As with keepers , so with jockeys . Stable lads when turned into racing jockeys are taken to dine with my ...
... employers are incapable of managing beats , dogs , and shoot- ing in coverts , that keepers change places with their employers . As with keepers , so with jockeys . Stable lads when turned into racing jockeys are taken to dine with my ...
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... employer , who prided him- self upon possessing such beauties of nature ; who had experienced much pleasure in watch- ing their advancement towards maturity , and who moreover appreciated their graceful and majestic forms . " " One of ...
... employer , who prided him- self upon possessing such beauties of nature ; who had experienced much pleasure in watch- ing their advancement towards maturity , and who moreover appreciated their graceful and majestic forms . " " One of ...
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... employers , and to perform their duties with- out zeal or energy . I remember the young man who was formerly Stratherrick's agent cutting down some ornamental timber , but fortunately , Stratherrick's trustee , who had just then been ...
... employers , and to perform their duties with- out zeal or energy . I remember the young man who was formerly Stratherrick's agent cutting down some ornamental timber , but fortunately , Stratherrick's trustee , who had just then been ...
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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...