Notes of a Tour in the Manufacturing Districts of Lancashire: In a Series of Letters to His Grace the Archbishop of DublinDuncan and Malcolm, 1842 - 299 頁 |
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able afford allow amount appearance asked attention become believe called capital cause circumstances clothing common condition consequence considerable continued conversation death described destitution directed distress districts doubt effect employed employment England equally establishment existence extent fact factory families fearful feel forest give given greater hands heard hope importance increased industry instance intelligence interest invested labour Lancashire land less letter living Lord machinery Manchester manufacturing means ment mill misery months moral natural nearly necessary never observations obtain once operatives party passed persons physical poor population present produced prosperity reason received relations relief rent require respect result seen Stockport suffering supply taken thing tion town trade truth turn visited wages week whole wife
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第 274 頁 - Why should that name be sounded more than yours ? Write them together, yours is as fair a name ; Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well ; Weigh them, it is as heavy ; conjure with them, Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.
第 57 頁 - What could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil but wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, of sages and of worthies.
第 286 頁 - The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: For ye have eaten up the vineyard; The spoil of the poor is in your houses. What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, And grind the faces of the poor? Saith the Lord God of hosts.
第 154 頁 - Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke ? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him ; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
第 56 頁 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
第 92 頁 - Thou, O Lord, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation. Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time ? Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
第 119 頁 - Igneus est ollis vigor et coelestis origo Seminibus, quantum non noxia corpora tardant, Terrenique hebetant artus, moribundaque membra.
第 90 頁 - Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city. They say to their mothers, "Where is corn and wine?" when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers
第 92 頁 - ... temples, arch, and tomb? Pageants! — Let the world revere us For our people's rights and laws, And the breasts of civic heroes Bared in Freedom's holy cause. Yours are Hampden's, Russell's glory...
第 17 頁 - I have the authority of a high military officer, and also that of other persons, for saying that the streets of Manchester, at ten o'clock at night, are as retired as those of the most rural districts. When we look at the extent of this parish, containing at least 300,000 souls — more than the population of the half of our counties — can we be surprised that there is a great amount of immorality ? But a great proportion of that immorality is committed by those who have been already nursed in...