The Glory and Shame of England, Volume 2Bartram & Lester, 1866 |
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... mean what it once meant - a small house surrounded by its little plot of land , which the inmate might cultivate as he pleased , for the support and gratification of his family and himself . The small freeholds have been long since ...
... mean what it once meant - a small house surrounded by its little plot of land , which the inmate might cultivate as he pleased , for the support and gratification of his family and himself . The small freeholds have been long since ...
Page 313
... means of subsistence are diminished by the increasing competition of their increasing numbers . " A low standard of living always tends to stimulate improvident marriages , to unduly in- crease the numbers of the population , and to ...
... means of subsistence are diminished by the increasing competition of their increasing numbers . " A low standard of living always tends to stimulate improvident marriages , to unduly in- crease the numbers of the population , and to ...
Page 314
... means rare for the two sexes to sleep , not only in the same bedroom , but in the same bed , without regard to decency . Even of the few new cottages be- ing built , none have more than two bedrooms , however large PEASANTS ' FAMILIES ...
... means rare for the two sexes to sleep , not only in the same bedroom , but in the same bed , without regard to decency . Even of the few new cottages be- ing built , none have more than two bedrooms , however large PEASANTS ' FAMILIES ...
Page 318
... means of ventilation , the roofs not weather - tight , wet , rotten , giving out malaria from the thatch and other decaying vegetable matter . " Mr. John Fox , the medical officer of the Cerne Union in Dorsetshire , enumerating the ...
... means of ventilation , the roofs not weather - tight , wet , rotten , giving out malaria from the thatch and other decaying vegetable matter . " Mr. John Fox , the medical officer of the Cerne Union in Dorsetshire , enumerating the ...
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... means possible . " " In a parish between Honiton and the coast , a great part of which is owned by Sir Edward Elton , this process of cottage clearing seems to be a marked feature in proprietary policy . On Sir Edward Elton's property ...
... means possible . " " In a parish between Honiton and the coast , a great part of which is owned by Sir Edward Elton , this process of cottage clearing seems to be a marked feature in proprietary policy . On Sir Edward Elton's property ...
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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.