Descriptive Essays, Volum 1J. Murray, 1857 |
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Pàgina 50
... peasant lad , dressed in a smock frock saturated with brown clay , who sat by her bedside . It was her son ... ENGLISH CHARITY .
... peasant lad , dressed in a smock frock saturated with brown clay , who sat by her bedside . It was her son ... ENGLISH CHARITY .
Pàgina 57
... peasant which is required by Act of Par- liament " TO BE DRUNK ON THE ... English charity , which , as shall soon be shown , possesses fifty - four ... English peasant , and above all , the Kentish peasant , would feel an honest pride in ...
... peasant which is required by Act of Par- liament " TO BE DRUNK ON THE ... English charity , which , as shall soon be shown , possesses fifty - four ... English peasant , and above all , the Kentish peasant , would feel an honest pride in ...
Pàgina 59
... English peasant , it is but too true , that if thorns be found growing there instead of fruit , -if the crop be ... peasantry to bequeath their parents , blood , body , and bones , to the workhouse ! With respect to the manner in which ...
... English peasant , it is but too true , that if thorns be found growing there instead of fruit , -if the crop be ... peasantry to bequeath their parents , blood , body , and bones , to the workhouse ! With respect to the manner in which ...
Pàgina 77
... peasant's family to do , " they exclaim , " with the price of fowls , eggs , butter , pork , or anything else that ... Eng- lishmen , let us be profuse ! Shall it be otherwise ? forbid ! " Of all the loathsome vices that disgrace our na ...
... peasant's family to do , " they exclaim , " with the price of fowls , eggs , butter , pork , or anything else that ... Eng- lishmen , let us be profuse ! Shall it be otherwise ? forbid ! " Of all the loathsome vices that disgrace our na ...
Pàgina 84
... peasantry , were to have the ef- fect of obliging a small proportion of them to be separated for a short period from their wives , do you conceive that they could reasonably complain of it , seeing that it is an imposi ... ENGLISH CHARITY .
... peasantry , were to have the ef- fect of obliging a small proportion of them to be separated for a short period from their wives , do you conceive that they could reasonably complain of it , seeing that it is an imposi ... ENGLISH CHARITY .
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 77 - Now them that are such we command and exhort, by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
Pàgina 265 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently ; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Pàgina 265 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor : suit the action to the word, the word to the action ; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature...
Pàgina 292 - The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: which indeed is the least of all seeds : but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
Pàgina 321 - One touch to her hand, and one word in her ear, When they reached the hall door, and the charger stood near; So light to the croupe the fair lady he swung, So light to the saddle before her he sprung ! — "She is won ! we are gone, over bank, bush, and scaur ! They'll have fleet steeds that follow !
Pàgina 279 - Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school: and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and, contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill.
Pàgina 318 - He call'd them untaught knaves, unmannerly, To bring a slovenly unhandsome corse Betwixt the wind and his nobility.
Pàgina 90 - ... hospital for the maintenance and education of exposed and deserted young children...
Pàgina 351 - The majority of the court is of opinion that the nature of the Indian title, which is certainly to be respected by all courts, until it be legitimately extinguished, is not such as to be absolutely repugnant to seisin in fee on the part of the State.
Pàgina 237 - Ministers have declared in a despatch (which they themselves have published), that the terms of his Lordship's proclamation to the inhabitants of our Colonies have " appeared to her Majesty's Ministers calculated to impugn the reverence due to the Royal authority — to derogate from the character of the Imperial Legislature — to excite among the disaffected hopes of impunity, and to enhance the difficulties with which his Lordship's successor would have to contend ? " It is with the deepest regret...