The Age and Its Architects: Ten Chapters on the English People, in Reference to the TimesPartridge and Oakley, 1852 - 456 Seiten |
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... kind of om- nipotence . Science has given to our age a feeling of haughty ambition , an overweening contempt , a vulgar strut . Hence we hear fre- quently of the greatness of man , the godhead of man , things profoundly true in ...
... kind of om- nipotence . Science has given to our age a feeling of haughty ambition , an overweening contempt , a vulgar strut . Hence we hear fre- quently of the greatness of man , the godhead of man , things profoundly true in ...
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... kind , would sedulously find out what they were fit for , and set about it as soon as the task was found . Time was , when every child was born to labour : the first residents on our globe were neither idlers nor savages , and the ...
... kind , would sedulously find out what they were fit for , and set about it as soon as the task was found . Time was , when every child was born to labour : the first residents on our globe were neither idlers nor savages , and the ...
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... kind for the tenure of the manor , such as reaping , harrowing , felling tim- ber , draining fish ponds , & c . The Norman conquest reduced to serfdom and bondage thou- sands who were , perhaps , before holders of farms on the terms ...
... kind for the tenure of the manor , such as reaping , harrowing , felling tim- ber , draining fish ponds , & c . The Norman conquest reduced to serfdom and bondage thou- sands who were , perhaps , before holders of farms on the terms ...
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... kind voice speaks , to sympathize and to cheer , in that dark circle where the shadows of guilt and unhallowed pleasure perpetually obtrude- where the tumult of licentiousness and sin are perpetually heard - where the terrible struggle ...
... kind voice speaks , to sympathize and to cheer , in that dark circle where the shadows of guilt and unhallowed pleasure perpetually obtrude- where the tumult of licentiousness and sin are perpetually heard - where the terrible struggle ...
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... kind of sympathy re- ceived also by dog and by horse ; with this change has come either a gross and utter care- lessness of the labouring classes , or a jealous de- fence of their rights , from a high conviction of their humanity . We ...
... kind of sympathy re- ceived also by dog and by horse ; with this change has come either a gross and utter care- lessness of the labouring classes , or a jealous de- fence of their rights , from a high conviction of their humanity . We ...
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agricultural amidst ancient atheism beauty beneath called character Chartism civilization classes comfort condition cottage crime crowded districts of England Edinburgh Review England English English peasant evil fact faith farms fear feel feudal freedom frequently give happiness hope human idea independence industry influence instances intelligence intemperance interest Jacquerie justice labour Lancashire land lessons liberty live look Lord luxuries ment mighty mind modern moral Morning Chronicle nation nature neighbours ness never noble Northumberland parish peasantry perhaps perpetually political poor population poverty present race racter ragged school reform santry schoolmaster seems shillings slaves social society solemn soul spirit sympathy taxation things THOMAS CARLYLE thou thought tion town true truth Utopia village virtue Wat Tyler wealth whole William the Norman woman wonderful workhouse workmen wrong
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Seite 401 - Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new : That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do...
Seite 177 - ... sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching reformation ! others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement...
Seite 262 - It is good also not to try experiments in states, except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident; and well to beware that it be the reformation that draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation.
Seite 186 - The limits of the sphere of dream, The bounds of true and false, are past. Lead us on, thou wandering gleam, Lead us onward, far and fast, To the wide, the desert waste. But see, how swift advance and shift, Trees behind trees, row by row, — How, clift by clift, rocks bend and lift Their frowning foreheads as we go. The giant-snouted crags, ho ! ho ! How they snort, and how they blow...
Seite 403 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known : riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none : No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil : No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too ; but innocent and pure : No sovereignty : — Seb.
Seite 262 - It were good therefore that men in their innovations would follow the example of time itself; which indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived.
Seite 267 - But the best state for human nature is that in which, while no one is poor, no one desires to be richer, nor has any reason to fear being thrust back, by the efforts of others to push themselves forward.
Seite 213 - Where Plenty smiles - alas! she smiles for few, And those who taste not, yet behold her store, Are as the slaves that dig the golden ore, The wealth around them makes them doubly poor: Or will you deem them amply paid in health, Labour's fair child, that languishes with Wealth?
Seite 401 - Th' eternal step of Progress beats To that great anthem, calm and slow, Which God repeats. Take heart! — the Waster builds again, — A charmed life old Goodness hath; The tares may perish, — but the grain Is not for death. God works in all things; all obey His first propulsion from the night: Wake thou and watch! — the world is gray With morning light 1 THE PRISONER FOR DEBT LOOK on him!
Seite 60 - Greenwich may receive ten shillings a day; that labouring men may be as little used to dine without meat as they now are to eat rye bread; that sanitary police and medical discoveries may have added several more years to the average length of human life; that numerous comforts and luxuries which are now unknown, or confined to a few, may be within the reach of every diligent and thrifty working man.