The Quarterly Review, Volumen18John Murray, 1818 |
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... workhouses , the rector's house , and the church of the same materials with the other buildings . The sick had an hospital , and widows and help- less persons an almshouse . The education of the children was the object of all others on ...
... workhouses , the rector's house , and the church of the same materials with the other buildings . The sick had an hospital , and widows and help- less persons an almshouse . The education of the children was the object of all others on ...
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... workhouses ; but which , in the beginning of the system , when work was really in con- templation , went under the ... workhouse is no longer avoided . Sir Josiah Child , about the year 1669 , projected the formation of London and its ...
... workhouses ; but which , in the beginning of the system , when work was really in con- templation , went under the ... workhouse is no longer avoided . Sir Josiah Child , about the year 1669 , projected the formation of London and its ...
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... workhouse system . Some recommended whole counties to be in- corporated for this purpose , others were satisfied with hundreds or districts of ten or fifteen parishes ; and this last recommendation was largely carried into effect in ...
... workhouse system . Some recommended whole counties to be in- corporated for this purpose , others were satisfied with hundreds or districts of ten or fifteen parishes ; and this last recommendation was largely carried into effect in ...
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... workhouse system many other obstacles and hindrances peculiar to itself occur , which render the profit ridiculous ... workhouse , the value of the work done is unknown . The average cost of maintenance in workhouses was 12l . 3s . 6d ...
... workhouse system many other obstacles and hindrances peculiar to itself occur , which render the profit ridiculous ... workhouse , the value of the work done is unknown . The average cost of maintenance in workhouses was 12l . 3s . 6d ...
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... workhouses stand empty , having indeed become useless from a cause which we would rather explain in the words of the Poor Law Committee than in our own.- " The workhouse system , though enacted with other views , yet for a long time ...
... workhouses stand empty , having indeed become useless from a cause which we would rather explain in the words of the Poor Law Committee than in our own.- " The workhouse system , though enacted with other views , yet for a long time ...
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Página 379 - I thought I saw Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt. Delighted and surprised, I embraced her ; but as I imprinted the first kiss on her lips, they became livid with the hue of death ; her features appeared to change, and I thought that I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms ; a shroud enveloped her form, and I saw the grave-worms crawling in the folds of the flannel.
Página 192 - That it is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent man should suffer.
Página 378 - His limbs were in proportion and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful!— Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips.
Página 455 - I have lived long enough : my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf ; And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Página 192 - I would never convict any person of murder or manslaughter, unless the fact were proved to be done, or at least the body found dead,(/) for the sake of two cases, one mentioned in my lord Coke's PC cap.
Página 379 - I beheld the wretch — the miserable monster whom I had created. He held up the curtain of the bed ; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me. His jaws opened, and he muttered some inarticulate sounds, while a grin wrinkled his cheeks.
Página 326 - Sleep breathes at last from out thee, My little patient boy ; And balmy rest about thee Smooths off the day's annoy. I sit me down, and think Of all thy winning ways : Yet almost wish, with sudden shrink, That I had less to praise.
Página 459 - Shakespear was no moralist at all : in another, he was the greatest of all moralists. He was a moralist in the same sense in which nature is one. He taught what he had learnt from her. He shewed the greatest knowledge of humanity with the greatest fellow-feeling for it.
Página 327 - His voice — his face — is gone ; " To feel impatient-hearted, Yet feel we must bear on ; Ah, I could not endure To whisper of such woe, Unless I felt this sleep ensure That it will not be so.
Página 379 - Wandering spirits, if indeed ye wander, and do not rest in your narrow beds, allow me this faint happiness, or take me, as your companion, away from the joys of life.