The Condition and Fate of England ...H. G. Langley, 1845 |
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... whole classes of labourers of whom I scarcely spoke , or at whose condition I glanced so briefly , that it will be necessary to devote some attention to them here . I will first add a word to what I said of the juvenile workers in the ...
... whole classes of labourers of whom I scarcely spoke , or at whose condition I glanced so briefly , that it will be necessary to devote some attention to them here . I will first add a word to what I said of the juvenile workers in the ...
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... whole week they are employed in the night - work ? Yes . At the end of a week , during which they have been employed in the night , do you think they have much capacity left for study on Sunday ? No : my opinion is most decidedly , that ...
... whole week they are employed in the night - work ? Yes . At the end of a week , during which they have been employed in the night , do you think they have much capacity left for study on Sunday ? No : my opinion is most decidedly , that ...
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... whole time , so long a deten- tion from their homes is extremely prejudicial ? Yes . Are they not called up at all ... whole of the night on the Friday night.- And the children , from nine to fifteen years of age , are obliged to be in ...
... whole time , so long a deten- tion from their homes is extremely prejudicial ? Yes . Are they not called up at all ... whole of the night on the Friday night.- And the children , from nine to fifteen years of age , are obliged to be in ...
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... whole of the time that the machines are at work . The whole twenty - four hours ? If it is worked twen- ty - four hours , the same set of children must be in , or about the premises during the whole time . What opportunity have the ...
... whole of the time that the machines are at work . The whole twenty - four hours ? If it is worked twen- ty - four hours , the same set of children must be in , or about the premises during the whole time . What opportunity have the ...
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... sinking in their circumstances . In truth , the present Corn Laws are demoralizing the whole manufacturing population ; and they are becoming atheistical in their views of religion . They cannot 24 SUFFERING AND CRIME.
... sinking in their circumstances . In truth , the present Corn Laws are demoralizing the whole manufacturing population ; and they are becoming atheistical in their views of religion . They cannot 24 SUFFERING AND CRIME.
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agitation aristocracy Bishop blood bread British British exchequer Catholic charity Chartists compelled Corn Laws crime debt declared demands destitution discontent distress Duke Duke of Wellington emigration England English government entire evil exchequer famine fear Feargus O'Connor feeling freedom hand-loom weavers heart House House of Lords human hunger increased indignation Ireland Irish Irishmen justice kingdom labour land landlord laws legislation liberty live Lord Lord Brougham Lord Castlereagh lower classes Macauley manufactures ment millions nation never night noble O'Connell oppression parish Parliament passed People's Charter petition physical force plunder poor population present principle relief Repeal revenue rotten boroughs Sir Robert Peel speak spirit starvation starving strength struggle suffering suffrage taxation taxes things thousands throne tion tithes toil Tory truth union universal suffrage unjust utter vote Whigs whole wretched wrong
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Página 92 - ... after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue there withal; that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast...
Página 71 - But though glory be gone, and though hope fade away, Thy name, loved Erin ! shall live in his songs, Not even in the hour when his heart is most gay Will he lose the remembrance of thee and thy wrongs ! The stranger shall hear thy lament on his plains ; The sigh of thy harp shall be sent o'er the deep, Till thy masters themselves, as they rivet thy chains, Shall pause at the song of their captive and weep ! WHILE GAZING ON THE MOON'S LIGHT.
Página 290 - Islands — the frenzy of believing, or making believe, that the adults of the nineteenth century can be led like children, or driven like barbarians ! This it is that has conjured up the strange sights at which we now stand aghast ! And shall we persist in the fatal error of...
Página 92 - Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them; they looked like anatomies of death ; they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves...
Página 290 - Exchequer ; whence do they spring, and how come they to haunt our shores ? What power engendered those uncouth shapes, what multiplied the monstrous births till they people the land? Trust me, the same power which called into frightful existence, and armed with resistless force, the Irish volunteers of 1782 — the same power which rent in twain your empire, and raised up thirteen republics — the same power which created the Catholic Association, and gave it Ireland for a portion.
Página 277 - This is the feeding and leading we have had of you: EMPTINESS, — of pocket, of stomach, of head and of heart. Behold there is nothing in us; nothing but what Nature gives her wild children of the desert : Ferocity and Appetite ; Strength grounded on Hunger.
Página 272 - To us individually this matter appears, and has for many years appeared, to be the most ominous of all practical matters whatever; a matter in regard to which if something be not done, something will do itself one day, and in a fashion that will please nobody.
Página 238 - Yet, when I consider the whole case as it lies before me, I am not much astonished, I am not surprised, that men who hate liberty, should detest those who prize it ; or that those who want virtue themselves, should endeavour to persecute those who possess it. Were I disposed...
Página 301 - And whosoever shall fall on this stone, shall be broken : but on whomsoever it shall fall, it shall grind him to powder.
Página 27 - ... break off our sins by righteousness, and our iniquities by showing mercy to the poor, if it may be a.