The great social evil1871 |
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beautiful snow better called causes of prostitution character Chief Chief Constable Christian Contagious Diseases Acts course crime daughter delicacy depraved DOUGLAS JERROLD drink Edinburgh evil fallen women father fear feel frequent gentleman George Gilfillan Glasgow Glasgow City Mission Greenock harlots heart Henry Ward Beecher honour houses of ill-fame human inmates innocent intemperance intoxicating Jacob Bright lady Leeds liquors Liverpool living London look marriage mercy miserable missionaries mistress moral mother never night number of brothels number of houses number of prostitutes observed pamphlet parents person Police present procuresses public houses pulpit purity question referred reformation respectable RICHARD COBDEN Robert Buchanan Rochdale ruin seducer servants shame sister social society soul streets Superintendent Tait thou town unfortunate females vice victims virtue virtuous visited visitors Wardlaw Westminster Review wretched young woman youth
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Seite 160 - O' clod or stane, Adorns the histie stibble-field, Unseen, alane. There, in thy scanty mantle clad, Thy snawie bosom sun-ward spread, Thou lifts thy unassuming head In humble guise ; But now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies ! Such is the fate of artless maid, Sweet flow'ret of the rural shade ! By love's simplicity betray'd, And guileless trust, Till she, like thee, all soil'd, is laid Low i
Seite 161 - When lovely woman stoops to folly. And finds, too late, that men betray. What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away? The only art her guilt to cover. To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom, — is to die.
Seite 167 - In she plunged boldly, No matter how coldly The rough river ran, Over the brink of it, — Picture it, think of it, Dissolute Man ! Lave in it, drink of it, Then, if you can ! Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care ; Fashioned so slenderly, Young, and so fair!
Seite 159 - And sage experience bids me this declare — 'If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare, One cordial in this melancholy vale, 'Tis when a youthful, loving, modest pair, In other's arms breathe out the tender tale, Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale.
Seite 160 - mang the dewy weet ! Wi' spreckl'd breast, "When upward-springing, blythe, to greet, The purpling east. Cauld blew the bitter-biting north Upon thy early, humble birth ; Yet cheerfully thou glinted forth Amid the storm, Scarce rear'd above the parent earth Thy tender form. The flaunting flowers our gardens yield, High shelt'ring woods and wa's maun shield ; But thou, beneath the random bield O' clod or stane, Adorns the histie stibble-field Unseen, alane.
Seite 206 - My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
Seite 225 - Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth : and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
Seite 157 - But when lust, By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being.
Seite 22 - When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee...
Seite 225 - MASTERS, give unto your servants that which is just and equal ; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.