Descriptive Essays Contributed to the Quarterly Review: Cornish miners in AmericaJ. Murray, 1857 - 384 pàgines |
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Pàgina 18
... colonies across the Atlantic . It is certainly the case that nature has formed the vast continent of America on a scale very different from that of the Old World . In point of grandeur and mag- nificence the outline of the Western world ...
... colonies across the Atlantic . It is certainly the case that nature has formed the vast continent of America on a scale very different from that of the Old World . In point of grandeur and mag- nificence the outline of the Western world ...
Pàgina 143
... colonies might and should be encouraged ; the Allotment System might and should be encouraged ; but that even the Poor - Law Amend- ment Act , though it could not undertake directly to meet the evil , would , if it had fair play given ...
... colonies might and should be encouraged ; the Allotment System might and should be encouraged ; but that even the Poor - Law Amend- ment Act , though it could not undertake directly to meet the evil , would , if it had fair play given ...
Pàgina 221
... colonies , he directly appealed , not unto Cæsar , but against Cæsar — TO THE PEOPLE ! In this document , as well as in others of a similar tendency , which we shall quote , Lord Durham strongly contrasts a solemn Act of the Queen and ...
... colonies , he directly appealed , not unto Cæsar , but against Cæsar — TO THE PEOPLE ! In this document , as well as in others of a similar tendency , which we shall quote , Lord Durham strongly contrasts a solemn Act of the Queen and ...
Pàgina 222
... Colonies as follows : - " In these just expectations I have been painfully disap- pointed . From the very commencement of my task , the mi- nutest details of my administration have been exposed to inces- sant criticism , in a spirit ...
... Colonies as follows : - " In these just expectations I have been painfully disap- pointed . From the very commencement of my task , the mi- nutest details of my administration have been exposed to inces- sant criticism , in a spirit ...
Pàgina 223
... colonies in general , against the solemn Act of the British Legislature , and against the deliberate instructions of her Majesty's Government , Lord Durham , as the representative of his Sovereign , addressed to the deputies of Nova ...
... colonies in general , against the solemn Act of the British Legislature , and against the deliberate instructions of her Majesty's Government , Lord Durham , as the representative of his Sovereign , addressed to the deputies of Nova ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 69 - 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 257 - 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 284 - 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 256 - ... or the intelligence they contain. One would think that compositors would be as sick of reading as a grocer's boy is of treacle ; but that this is not the case is proved by the fact, that they not only willingly pay for these newspapers, but often indemnify one of their own community for giving up his time in order to sit in the middle of the hall on a high stool and read the news aloud to them while they are laboring at their work : they will, morever, even pay him to read to them any new book...
Pàgina 271 - 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 310 - He call'd them untaught knaves, unmannerly, To bring a slovenly unhandsome corse Betwixt the wind and his nobility.
Pàgina 82 - ... hospital for the maintenance and education of exposed and deserted young children...
Pàgina 342 - ... But what is the right of a huntsman to the forest of a thousand miles over which he has accidentally ranged in quest of prey? Shall the liberal bounties of Providence to the race of man be monopolized by one of ten thousand for whom they were created ? Shall the exuberant bosom of the common mother, amply adequate to the nourishment of millions, be claimed exclusively by a few hundreds of her offspring?
Pàgina 229 - The terms in which that appeal has been made, in this instance, appear to her Majesty's ministers calculated to impair the reverence due to the royal authority, to derogate from the character of the Imperial legislature, to excite amongst the disaffected hopes of impunity, and to enhance the difficulties with which your Lordship's successor will have to contend.
Pàgina 214 - I shall have occasion hereafter most fully to prove. I also did believe that, even if I had not the precedents of these Acts of Parliament, a Government and a Legislature anxious for the peace of this unhappy country and for the integrity of the British Empire, would not sacrifice to a petty technicality the vast benefits which my entire policy promised and had already in a great measure secured.