The Glory and Shame of England, Volume 2Bartram & Lester, 1866 |
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... existence , and a bad season is a sentence of death to many of the suffering poor . — London Sun. There is no doubt more misery and acute suffering among the mass of the people of England than there is in any kingdom of the world ; but ...
... existence , and a bad season is a sentence of death to many of the suffering poor . — London Sun. There is no doubt more misery and acute suffering among the mass of the people of England than there is in any kingdom of the world ; but ...
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... existence throughout the country , and in every parish , of low lodging - houses , where persons of the lowest grade of sciety , beggars , thieves and such - like , take up a tem- porary abode in passing from one part of the kingdom to ...
... existence throughout the country , and in every parish , of low lodging - houses , where persons of the lowest grade of sciety , beggars , thieves and such - like , take up a tem- porary abode in passing from one part of the kingdom to ...
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... existence here , the richer and more intelligent classes are obliged to guard them with police and standing armies , and to cover the land with prisons , cages , and all kinds of receptacles for those , who in their thoughtlessness or ...
... existence here , the richer and more intelligent classes are obliged to guard them with police and standing armies , and to cover the land with prisons , cages , and all kinds of receptacles for those , who in their thoughtlessness or ...
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... existence except in fancy , I am enabled not only to prove the truth of the appalling pictures I drew , but to show that my representations were far below the truth . I said , at the time : " Talk of slavery ! What slave is in a worse ...
... existence except in fancy , I am enabled not only to prove the truth of the appalling pictures I drew , but to show that my representations were far below the truth . I said , at the time : " Talk of slavery ! What slave is in a worse ...
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... existence of hundreds of our fellow - creatures a picture is presented of deadly physical oppression , and systematic slavery , of which I conscientiously believe no one unacquainted with such facts would credit the existence in the ...
... existence of hundreds of our fellow - creatures a picture is presented of deadly physical oppression , and systematic slavery , of which I conscientiously believe no one unacquainted with such facts would credit the existence in the ...
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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.