Political and Social Economy: Its Practical ApplicationsChambers, 1849 - 345 Seiten |
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Political and Social Economy: Its Practical Application (Classic Reprint) John Hill Burton Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2017 |
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advantage agricultural amount applied aristocracy believe calamities capital capitalist Celts Channel Islands character civilisation consuetudinary cottars degradation districts duty Earlston Ebenezer Elliot effect elements emigration employed energy England evil exer exertion existence favour fortune France free trade fund give habits hand human race idle income increase individual indolence industry influence interest Ireland labour land landlord less live look Louis Blanc machinery mankind manufacturing means mendicancy ment misery moral nature neighbours never object obtain occupation operation organisation pauper peculiar perform perhaps persons political economy poor poor-law population portion possess practical present principle produce profession profits proprietors protection railway regulations require rich rience saving Scotland skill social society subsistence supply tion towns trade United Kingdom vagrancy wages wealth weavers whole working-classes workmen
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Seite 249 - Great in the earth, as in the ethereal frame; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees; Lives through all life, extends through all extent; Spreads undivided, operates unspent!
Seite 189 - Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.
Seite 321 - Many murders have been discovered among them; and they are not only a most unspeakable oppression to poor tenants (who if they give not bread, or some kind of provision to perhaps forty such villains in one day, are sure to be insulted by them) but they rob many poor people who live in houses distant from any neighbourhood. In years of plenty...
Seite 49 - Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife ! Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant ! Let the dead Past bury its dead ! Act, — act in the living 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.
Seite 131 - Does he not feel that it is as honorable to owe it to these, as to being the accident of an accident ? — To all these noble lords, the language of the noble duke is as applicable and as insulting as it is to myself. But I don't fear to meet it single and alone.
Seite 131 - No one venerates the peerage more than I do ; but, my lords, I must say that the peerage solicited me, — not I the peerage.
Seite 321 - There are, at this day, in Scotland (besides a great many poor families, very meanly provided for by the church boxes, with others who, by living upon bad food, fall into various diseases) two hundred thousand people begging from door to door.
Seite 199 - The plough of each man was confined to the maintenance of his own family, or to the occasional accommodation of his neighbour.
Seite 13 - Thro' the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger day: Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.
Seite 128 - Lévite — such was the phrase then in use — might be had for his board, a small garret, and ten pounds a year, and might not only perform his own professional functions, might not only be the most patient of butts and...