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 pàgines |
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... instance of infant labour , to render an authoritative interference between the employer and the employed de- sirable , if not necessary . My inquiries were chiefly directed to ascertaining whether the pre- sent dispute respecting wages ...
... instance of infant labour , to render an authoritative interference between the employer and the employed de- sirable , if not necessary . My inquiries were chiefly directed to ascertaining whether the pre- sent dispute respecting wages ...
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... instances within my own knowledge has been so conducted , as to create and diffuse social happiness . It has also been insinuated that I have taken too favour- able a view of the Lancastrian character : I can only say in reply that I ...
... instances within my own knowledge has been so conducted , as to create and diffuse social happiness . It has also been insinuated that I have taken too favour- able a view of the Lancastrian character : I can only say in reply that I ...
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... instance , are porterage , lighterage , coal- heaving , & c . This demand for untrained labour is not so great as in Liverpool , nor could Manchester exhibit anything so low in the social scale as the dock - population of that port ...
... instance , are porterage , lighterage , coal- heaving , & c . This demand for untrained labour is not so great as in Liverpool , nor could Manchester exhibit anything so low in the social scale as the dock - population of that port ...
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... instance of even a cherry having been plucked , though the young piecers and cleaners must pass them five or six times every day , and they are far from being deficient in the natural love for fruit , as I found that they were good ...
... instance of even a cherry having been plucked , though the young piecers and cleaners must pass them five or six times every day , and they are far from being deficient in the natural love for fruit , as I found that they were good ...
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... instances out of ten is the case with the junior branches of the operative's family . My opinion on these points is not worth much , but , as the Times ' has in some degree forced me to express it , I beg leave to say that I consider ...
... instances out of ten is the case with the junior branches of the operative's family . My opinion on these points is not worth much , but , as the Times ' has in some degree forced me to express it , I beg leave to say that I consider ...
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Notes of a Tour in the Manufacturing Districts of Lancashire: In a Series of ... William Cooke Taylor Visualització completa - 1842 |
Notes of a Tour in the Manufacturing Districts of Lancashire: In a Series of ... William Cooke Taylor Visualització completa - 1842 |
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agricultural amount appearance Ashworth asked believe Bolton bread Burnley capital cause cent Charles Shaw Charter Chartist Cheshire circumstances Colne comfort condition consequence corn-laws cotton declared destitution distress doubt Dukinfield earnings employed employers employment England established evil existence fact factory operatives factory system families favourable fearful feel forest hand-loom weavers hands heard Hollymount increased industry inquiries instance intel intelligence interest invested juvenile labour Lancashire lative less letter Liverpool Lord machinery Manchester manufacturing districts masters means ment mill misery moral nation nearly necessity neighbourhood never Norman yoke obtain Padiham Pendle Forest persons political poor population portunity power-loom present print-works produced proprietor prosperity racter received relief relieving officer rent Rosendale sophism spinners starving Stockport suffering Sunnyside tion Todmorden town trade truth tural Turton Union visited wages week weekly wife workhouse workmen
Passatges populars
Pàgina 61 - 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...
Pàgina 96 - 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.
Pàgina 290 - 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.
Pàgina 158 - 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?
Pàgina 60 - 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, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Pàgina 94 - The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.
Pàgina 164 - one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.
Pàgina 94 - 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
Pàgina 96 - ... 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...
Pàgina 94 - Alas! regardless of their doom The little victims play; No sense have they of ills to come Nor care beyond to-day: Yet see how all around 'em wait The ministers of human fate And black Misfortune's baleful train!