The Great Social Evil: Its Causes, Extent, Results, and RemediesHodder and Stoughton, 1871 - 240 頁 |
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Acts called causes of prostitution character Chief Chief Constable Chief Superintendent Christian class brothels Contagious Diseases Acts course crime daughter delicacy disease DOUGLAS JERROLD drink Edinburgh evil fallen women father feel frequent gentleman George Gilfillan Glasgow Greenock habits harlots heart Henry Ward Beecher honour houses of bad houses of ill-fame human infamous inmates innocent intemperance Jacob Bright lady large number Leeds Liverpool living London look Magdalene marriage mercy miserable missionary mistress moral mother never night number of brothels number of houses number of prostitutes observed parents person procuresses prosti public houses purity question referred respectable RICHARD COBDEN Rochdale ruin second-class seducer servants shame sisters social society soul streets Superintendent Tait thou town unfortunate females vice victims virtue virtuous visited visitors Wardlaw Westminster Review William Bevan wretched writes young woman youth
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第 157 頁 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
第 45 頁 - Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
第 160 頁 - 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
第 161 頁 - 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.
第 159 頁 - Is there, in human form, that bears a heart — A wretch ! a villain ! lost to love and truth! That can, with studied, sly, ensnaring art, Betray sweet Jenny's unsuspecting youth ? Curse on his...
第 225 頁 - 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.
第 155 頁 - Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i...
第 22 頁 - When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee...
第 160 頁 - mang the dewy weet ! Wi' speckl'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.
第 157 頁 - Be it not done in pride, or in presumption. Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost, That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin or swart faery of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.