The History of the Factory Movement: From the Year 1802, to the Enactment of the Ten Hours' Bill in 1847, Band 2

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Simkin, Marshall, and Company, 1857
 

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Seite 98 - He that goeth about to persuade a multitude, that they are not so well governed as they ought to be, shall never want attentive and favourable hearers ; because they know the manifold defects whereunto every kind of regiment is subject, 'but the secret lets and difficulties, which in public proceedings are innumerable and inevitable, they have not ordinarily the judgment to consider.
Seite 238 - ... fearfully and wonderfully made. We do not treat a fine horse or a sagacious dog exactly as we treat a spinning jenny.
Seite 27 - If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not ; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it ? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it ? and shall not he render to every man according to his works...
Seite 115 - This operator did his office after a different manner from those of his trade in Europe. He first took my altitude by a quadrant, and then, with rule and compasses, described the dimensions and outlines of my whole body, all which he entered upon paper, and in six days brought my clothes very ill made, and quite out of shape, by happening to mistake a figure in the calculation. But my comfort was, that I observed such accidents very frequent, and little regarded.
Seite 27 - If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain ; if thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not ; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works...
Seite 104 - On the 9th of April, Mr. Labouchere, in the House of Commons, moved for leave to bring in a Bill to suspend the executive constitution and...
Seite 81 - What the State ought to take upon itself to direct by the public wisdom, and what it ought to leave, with as little interference as possible, to individual discretion.
Seite 133 - Sir John Newport then proceeded to move the order of the day for the further consideration of the report of the bill.
Seite 294 - Give me but the liberty of the press, and I will give to the minister a venal House of Peers — I will give him a corrupt and servile House of Commons — I will give him the full sway of the patronage of office — I will give him the whole host of ministerial influence — I will give him all the power that place can confer upon him, to purchase up submission and overawe resistance ; and yet, armed with the liberty of the press...

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