The Island, Or An Adventure of a Person of QualityB. Tauchnitz, 1888 - 270 pàgines |
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Frases i termes més freqüents
Ancient asked banyan beauty begin better birds Blackheath boat breadfruit Captain Cave CHAPTER civilisation course England English eyes face factory father feel felt fleas fowl Genoa girl give guavas hand happy heard heart hope hunger strike Island Isle John Milton keep kill knew labour Lascar leave light live look lord of India ment morning native nature never night once perhaps Pitcairn pity play poor potatoes Queen's ship race reflex action Regent Street rock ROMAN HOLIDAY round Royal Exchange scene seemed seen settle settlement shillings side sleep solitary isle sometimes soon sort soul speak spirit square miles stood Swart Tahiti talk tell There's things thought touch trees turned Victoria walk watch wild women wonder word yams
Passatges populars
Pàgina 185 - Adam and Eve, how can they say or prove that they are better than we, if it be not that they make us gain for them by our toil what they spend in their pride ? They are clothed in velvet, and warm in their furs and their ermines, while we are covered with rags.
Pàgina 185 - ... our toil what they spend in their pride ? They are clothed in velvet and warm in their furs and their ermines, while we are covered with rags. They have wine and spices and fair bread ; and we oat-cake and straw, and water to drink. They have leisure and fine houses ; we have pain and labour, the rain and the wind in the fields. And yet it is of us and of our toil that these men hold their state.
Pàgina 185 - Good people," cried the preacher, " things will never go well in England so long as goods be not in common, and so long as there be villeins and gentlemen. By what right are they whom we call lords greater folk than we? On what grounds have they deserved it? Why do they hold us in serfage? If we all came of the same father and mother, of Adam and Eve, how can they say or prove that they are better than we, if it be not that they make us gain for them by our toil what they spend in their pride?
Pàgina 190 - Brahmans he assigned the duties of reading the Veda, of teaching it, of sacrificing, of assisting others to sacrifice, of giving alms, if they be rich, and, if indigent, of receiving gifts: 89.
Pàgina 71 - LAWS FOR THE PUBLIC ANVIL, ETC. " Any person taking the public anvil and public sledge-hammer from the blacksmith's shop, is to take it back after he has done with it; and in case the anvil and sledgehammer should get lost by his neglecting to take it back, he is to get another anvil and sledge-hammer, and pay a fine of four shillings.
Pàgina 208 - Not more than others I deserve, Yet God hath given me more ; For I have food while others starve, Or beg from door to door.
Pàgina 8 - I had just left, with its groups of millionaires gossiping Bagdad and the Irawaddy, Chicago and the Cape; dividend day over at the Bank yonder, and the well known sight of the Blessed going to take their quarterly reward; a sheriff's coach turning the angle of the Mansion House (breakfast to an African pro-consul, I believe), a vanishing splendour of satin and plush and gold; dandy clerks making for Birch's, with the sure and f OUT OF FOCUS.
Pàgina 118 - There must be something wanting, but I cannot tell what it is
Pàgina 9 - Cornhill corner (East-End marching West to demonstrate for the right to a day's toil for a day's crust); thieves, and bludgeon men, and stone men in attendance on demonstration; detectives in attendance on thieves; shutters up at the jewellers' as they pass; probable average of -js.
Pàgina 183 - ... confusion, than submit to such atrocities. Since nature has made the same provision for us as for them, and has given us also a soul and a body, we should like to know whether this is all that we are to expect at her hands. Look at them and look at us: have we not all the same form ? are we not all born in the same way...