The 19th Century: A HistoryT. Nelson and Sons, 1892 - 465 Seiten |
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able allies American annually arms army Austria battle became bestowed Bismarck Britain British ceased century Christian church close Congress of Vienna corn law cotton crown defeat defence desire despotism emperor empire endured enemy England English enormous enterprise Europe European evils favour fifty force foreign forty France French gained German held hundred thousand increased India industry inflicted influence Italian Italy king labour land liberal liberty Lombardy Lord Lord Palmerston Louis Louis Philippe maintained manufactures measure ment miles military million sterling minister monarch Naples Napoleon nearly neighbours once overthrow Paris Parliament passed peace persons political poor pope population possession Prince progress railways reform regard resistance restoration revenue revolution Rome Russia Sardinia scarcely ships slavery soil soldiers sought Spain strength success suffered supply taxes territory thirty throne tion trade troops Turkey Turkish Turks twenty universal suffrage vast victory vote yielded
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 218 - Missionaries, whose blameless example and self-denying labours are infusing new vigour into the stereotyped life of the great populations placed under English rule, and are preparing them to be in every way better men and better citizens of the great Empire in which they dwell.
Seite 131 - I shall leave a name execrated by every monopolist, who, from less honourable motives, clamours for Protection because it conduces to his own individual benefit. But it may be that I shall leave a name sometimes remembered with expressions of goodwill in the abodes of those whose lot it is to labour and to earn their daily bread by the sweat of their brow, when they shall recruit their exhausted strength with abundant and untaxed food, the sweeter because it is no longer leavened by a sense of injustice.
Seite 78 - If a man injured Westminster Bridge he was hanged. If he appeared disguised on a public road he was hanged. If he cut down young trees ; if he shot at rabbits ; if he stole property valued at five shillings ; if he stole anything at all from a bleach field : if he wrote a threatening letter to extort money ; if he returned prematurely from transportation ; for any of these offences he was immediately hanged.
Seite 459 - Human history is a record of progress — a record of accumulating knowledge and increasing wisdom, of continual advancement from a lower to a higher platform of intelligence and well-being. Each generation passes on to the next the treasures which it inherited, beneficially modified by its own experience, enlarged by the fruits of all the victories which itself has gained. The rate of this progress ... is irregular and even fitful ... but the stagnation is only apparent.
Seite 78 - Heath avowed from the bench the theory which seemed to govern the criminal policy of the time. There was no hope, he said, of regenerating a felon in this life. His continued existence would merely diffuse a corrupting influence. It was better for his own sake, as well as for society, that he should be hanged. In 1816 there were, at one time, fifty-eight persons under sentence of death. One of these was a child ten years of age.
Seite 135 - While the House frets over its sevenpence in the pound, the poor are paying twice that number of shillings in the pound on the great staples of their consumption. For every 20s. the working classes expend on tea, they pay 10s. of duty; for every 20s. they expend on sugar, they pay 6s. of duty ; for every 20s. they expend on coffee, they pay 8s. of duty ; on soap, 5s. ; on beer, 4s. ; on tobacco, 16s. ; on spirits, 14s.
Seite 204 - ... had been reduced to yarn for thousands of years, the same rude contrivance used in ancient Mycenae and Troy by Homer's heroines. There are men alive to-day, whose mothers, like Solomon's virtuous woman, laid their hands to the spindle and distaff, and knew no other way. William Fairbairn, an eminent mechanic, states that "in the beginning of the century the human hand performed all the work that was done, and performed it badly.