Observations made in a journey through the western counties of Scotland in the autumn of 1792, Volumen21793 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 310 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny : You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face ; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Página 406 - ... in religion, and in the other ordinary branches of education, — fending the poor creatures prematurely into all the toils and miferies of life. — Yet, I fay not, that in great towns, it is better for the children of the poor to be idle than to be employed : if there be a choice between two fuch evils, I would rather employ them., work them to death, thnn fend them wandering about the ftreets, as blackguard boys and infantftrumpets.
Página 405 - THUS do we, in our halte to render the rifing generation ufeful to the community, anticipate in infancy all the fervices of youth, of manhood, of age, — nipping in the bud, the flowers of humanity. When obliged to labour, before the age of twelve or fourteen, children, ihould never be confined for more than four, or at...
Página 404 - ... of the children of the poor about great towns. Where they are even in infancy fent to earn their fuftenance by their labour, it is hardly better with them: they are cramped in their growth ; their health is wafted by confinement ; their morals are corrupted, in confequence of their being crowded fo much together ; they become independent of parents at an age when they are unfit to judge for themfelves: if fuch children live to the age of thirty or forty, they are commonly the mod difiipated,...
Página 405 - ... fix hours in the day : this, if at employment within doors, for not more than four days in the week : the other two being fet apart for their education. The parents are bafe, who fpending in eating, in drinking, in clothing, thofe earnings, which they might employ to give their children the enjoyment of that fportive freedom in which the innocence of youth delights,— —to...
Página 174 - ... of man. But, not the thronged, comprefled fociety of the camp, of the great city, of the diforderly manufacturing village. In fuch fituations human nature is degraded below itfelf. No wonder that living and writing, as he did, in the...
Página 405 - ... had to lay : he killed his goofe : the eggs were yet in embryo. Thus do we, in our hafte to render the rifing generation ufeful to the community, anticipate in infancy all the fervices of youth, of manhood, of age, — nipping in the bud, the flowers of humanity. When obliged to labour, before...
Página 404 - One (hocking circumftance which, in fpite of every means that can be ufed to prevent it, refults unavoidably from the prefent management of our manufactures, is, the almoft total ruin of the rifing generaiion.
Página 330 - Romifh fuperftition is unfit for the religion of a poliihed people and an enlightened age. But, I muft at the fame time maintain, that no form of fuperftition was ever better calculated to bring favages under the reftraints of order, or to teach the more improved arts of life.
Página 130 - ... Ireland, and the most distant parts of North Britain, horse-dealers, cattledealers, sellers of sweetmeats and of spirituous liquors, gypsies, pickpockets, and smugglers, are accustomed to resort to this fair. Every house in the adjoining villages is crowded ; and all become, on this occasion, houses of entertainment. The roads are, for a day or two before, crowded with visitors to this fair. On the hill or park where it is held, tents are erected in rows, so as to form a sort of street, for the...