The Glory and Shame of England, Volume 2Bartram & Lester, 1866 |
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... character of the peasants , and of the little proprietors , have been im- measurably improved ; and now , the most prudent , economical and conservative members of those countries , are the peasants and proprietors of the soil . " To ...
... character of the peasants , and of the little proprietors , have been im- measurably improved ; and now , the most prudent , economical and conservative members of those countries , are the peasants and proprietors of the soil . " To ...
Page 312
... bed - rooms much too horrible to be alluded to . Nor are these solitary instances , but similar reports are given by gentlemen writing in ALL parts of the country . PEASANT HEATHENISM . 313 " The miserable character of the.
... bed - rooms much too horrible to be alluded to . Nor are these solitary instances , but similar reports are given by gentlemen writing in ALL parts of the country . PEASANT HEATHENISM . 313 " The miserable character of the.
Page 313
... character of the cottages , because they know that they can easily let any of the existing cottages , no matter how wretched , owing to the great demand for house - room . " The crowding of the cottages has , therefore , of late been ...
... character of the cottages , because they know that they can easily let any of the existing cottages , no matter how wretched , owing to the great demand for house - room . " The crowding of the cottages has , therefore , of late been ...
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... character , in- creases the comfort of his family , augments his happiness , and makes him a good and conservative citizen . There is a great outcry made by the English press about French tyranny . Eng- land has at most 35,000 land ...
... character , in- creases the comfort of his family , augments his happiness , and makes him a good and conservative citizen . There is a great outcry made by the English press about French tyranny . Eng- land has at most 35,000 land ...
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... character succeeds , and the whole family sinks perceptibly to a lower grade in character and conduct . " The Hon . and Rev. S. Godolphin Osborne , rector of Bryan- ston - cum - Durweston , Dorsetshire , says : ALL AGES AND SEXES ...
... character succeeds , and the whole family sinks perceptibly to a lower grade in character and conduct . " The Hon . and Rev. S. Godolphin Osborne , rector of Bryan- ston - cum - Durweston , Dorsetshire , says : ALL AGES AND SEXES ...
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Page 446 - I impeach Warren Hastings of high crimes and misdemeanors. I impeach him in the name of the Commons' House of Parliament, whose trust he has betrayed. I impeach him in the name of the English nation, whose ancient honor he has sullied.
Page 359 - Present! Heart within, and God o'erhead! Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.
Page 363 - There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary are at rest. There the prisoners are at ease together ; They hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
Page 450 - Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; Blow upon my garden, That the spices thereof may flow out.
Page 444 - Under their old masters they had at least one resource: when the evil became insupportable, the people rose and pulled down the government. But the English government was not to be so shaken off. That government, oppressive as the most oppressive form of barbarian despotism, was strong with all the strength of civilization. It resembled the government of evil genii, rather than the government of human tyrants.
Page 445 - With all his faults — and they were neither few nor small — only one cemetery was worthy to contain his remains. In that temple of silence and reconciliation, where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried...
Page 443 - Every servant of a British factor was armed with all the power of his master ; and his master was armed with all the power of the Company. Enormous fortunes were thus rapidly accumulated at Calcutta, while thirty millions of human beings were reduced to the extremity of wretchedness.
Page 397 - In these wretched dwellings all ages and both sexes, fathers and daughters, mothers and sons, grown up brothers and sisters, stranger adult males and females, and swarms of children, the sick, the dying, and the dead, are herded together with a proximity and mutual pressure which brutes would resist; where it is physically impossible to preserve the ordinary decencies of life; where all sense of propriety and self-respect must be lost, to be replaced only by a recklessness of demeanour which necessarily...
Page 369 - Westminster, that we find the most flagrant traces of their swarming activity. There the foul and dismal passages are thronged with children of both sexes, and of every age from three to thirteen. Though wan and haggard, they are singularly vivacious, and engaged in every sort of occupation but that, which would be beneficial to themselves and creditable to the neighbourhood.
Page 309 - Here, where the aristocracy is richer and more powerful than that of any other country in the world, the poor are more depressed, more pauperized, more numerous in comparison to the other classes, more irreligious, and very much worse educated than the poor of any other European nation, solely excepting Russia. Turkey, South Italy, Portugal, and Spain.