The Condition and Fate of England ...H. G. Langley, 1845 |
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... ment , and her voice is heard at the council boards of every nation . To one who looks only on the territory of England proper , the extent of her do- minion seems incredible . That a small island should rule half continents is indeed ...
... ment , and her voice is heard at the council boards of every nation . To one who looks only on the territory of England proper , the extent of her do- minion seems incredible . That a small island should rule half continents is indeed ...
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... ment of Domestic Slavery , as a remedy for the squalid wretched- ness and audacious guilt with which his country was overrun.- Quarterly Review . BOOK SECOND . i GENERAL CONDITION OF THE BRITISH PEOPLE BOOK THE SECOND. ...
... ment of Domestic Slavery , as a remedy for the squalid wretched- ness and audacious guilt with which his country was overrun.- Quarterly Review . BOOK SECOND . i GENERAL CONDITION OF THE BRITISH PEOPLE BOOK THE SECOND. ...
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... ment was gained in the human mind for the great principles of Christianity , which in their turn , gave birth to civil freedom , and settled in the human soul a conviction of the equal rights of man , and imparted a firm determination ...
... ment was gained in the human mind for the great principles of Christianity , which in their turn , gave birth to civil freedom , and settled in the human soul a conviction of the equal rights of man , and imparted a firm determination ...
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... ment . In another part of this work I shall review the history of the suffering and wrong Ireland has endured at the hand of England . That subject is of too much interest to be crowded into 46 GENERAL CONDITION OF THE.
... ment . In another part of this work I shall review the history of the suffering and wrong Ireland has endured at the hand of England . That subject is of too much interest to be crowded into 46 GENERAL CONDITION OF THE.
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... ment was wanting in the pauperized parishes , to a complete system of predial slavery . " ( Ed . Rev. ) " The 23 Edward III . requires all servants to accept the wages that were usually given five or six years before ; and to serve by ...
... ment was wanting in the pauperized parishes , to a complete system of predial slavery . " ( Ed . Rev. ) " The 23 Edward III . requires all servants to accept the wages that were usually given five or six years before ; and to serve by ...
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Página 30 - I rightly conceived your meaning ; and if, as you say, confessing a truth indeed may procure my safety, I shall with all willingness and duty, perform your command. " But let not your grace ever imagine that your poor wife will ever be brought to acknowledge a fault, where not so much as a thought thereof preceded.
Página 49 - is given ; and they blow the souls out of ,one another ; and in place of sixty brisk, useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcasses, which it must bury, and anew shed tears for. Had these men any quarrel ? Busy as the Devil is, not the smallest! They lived far enough apart; were the entirest strangers; nay, in so wide a Universe, there was even, unconsciously, by Commerce, some mutual helpfulness between them. How then? Simpleton! their Governors had fallen out; and instead of shooting one...
Página 49 - natural enemies" of the French, there are successively selected, during the French war, say thirty able-bodied men : Dumdrudge, at her own expense, has suckled and nursed them ; she has, not without difficulty and sorrow, fed them up to manhood, and even trained them to crafts, so that one can weave, another build, another hammer, and the weakest can stand erect under thirty stone avoirdupois.
Página 235 - We have offended, Oh! my countrymen! We have offended very grievously, And been most tyrannous. From east to west A groan of accusation pierces Heaven! The wretched plead against us; multitudes Countless and vehement, the sons of God, Our brethren!
Página 49 - Dumdrudge, at her own expense, has suckled and nursed them : she has, not without difficulty and sorrow, fed them up to manhood, and even trained them to crafts, so that one can weave, another build, another hammer, and the weakest can stand under thirty stone avoirdupois. Nevertheless, amid much weeping and swearing, they are selected; all dressed in red ; and shipped away, at the public charges, some two thousand miles, or say only to the south of Spain ; and fed there till wanted. And now to that...
Página 260 - I wish to call the attention of the Board to the pits about Brampton. The seams are so thin that several of them have only two feet headway to all the working. They are worked altogether by boys from eight to twelve years of age, on all-fours, with a dog belt and chain. The passages being neither ironed nor wooded, and often an inch or two thick with mud. In Mr. Barnes...
Página 30 - God that he will pardon your great sin therein, and likewise mine enemies, the instruments thereof, and that he will not call you to a strict account for your unprincely and cruel usage of me, at his general judgment-seat, where both you and myself must shortly appear, and in whose judgment I doubt not, whatsoever the world' may think of me, mine innocence shall be openly known and sufficiently cleared.
Página 268 - I found assembled round a fire a group of men, boys, and girls, some of whom were of the age of puberty; the girls as well as the boys stark naked down to the waist, their hair bound up with a tight cap, and trousers supported by their hips.
Página 54 - It is a melancholy truth, that among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than an hundred and sixty have been declared by act of parliament to be felonies without the benefit of clergy; or, in other words to be worthy of instant death.
Página 30 - Try me, good king : but let me have a lawful trial, and let not my sworn enemies sit as my accusers and judges ; yea, let me receive an open trial, for my truth shall fear no open shame...