Descriptive Essays Contributed to the Quarterly Review: Cornish miners in AmericaJ. Murray, 1857 - 384 pàgines |
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Pàgina 4
... scarcely a human being is to be seen . The tall chimneys of the steam - engines emit no smoke ; and nothing is in motion but the great ' bobs ' or levers of these gigantic machines , which , slowly rising and fall- ing , exert their ...
... scarcely a human being is to be seen . The tall chimneys of the steam - engines emit no smoke ; and nothing is in motion but the great ' bobs ' or levers of these gigantic machines , which , slowly rising and fall- ing , exert their ...
Pàgina 14
... come to grass , and that the whole body of subterraneous labourers should be released ; and those who have at- tended to their labours through the day will scarcely regret to see them rising out of the earth , 14 CORNISH MINERS IN AMERICA .
... come to grass , and that the whole body of subterraneous labourers should be released ; and those who have at- tended to their labours through the day will scarcely regret to see them rising out of the earth , 14 CORNISH MINERS IN AMERICA .
Pàgina 15
... scarcely fancy they had worked all day in darkness and confine- ment . The old men , however , tired with their work , and sick of the follies and vagaries of the outside and the inside of this mining world , plod their way in sober ...
... scarcely fancy they had worked all day in darkness and confine- ment . The old men , however , tired with their work , and sick of the follies and vagaries of the outside and the inside of this mining world , plod their way in sober ...
Pàgina 25
... scarcely known : indeed , several Companies sent their miners from Falmouth before they had secured even the frailest title to the mines in which the men were to be employed . The subject of working silver - mines was one to which very ...
... scarcely known : indeed , several Companies sent their miners from Falmouth before they had secured even the frailest title to the mines in which the men were to be employed . The subject of working silver - mines was one to which very ...
Pàgina 27
... scarcely get three , I am very willing to engage . " The captain of the Cornish mines would have said , " I will engage to work your mines in America exactly on the plan they are worked in Cornwall . I know all the tricks of the Cornish ...
... scarcely get three , I am very willing to engage . " The captain of the Cornish mines would have said , " I will engage to work your mines in America exactly on the plan they are worked in Cornwall . I know all the tricks of the Cornish ...
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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.