The Life, Times and Labours of Robert Owen, Volums 1-2S. Sonnenschein and Company, 1890 - 203 pàgines |
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active agitation attack believed Bishop Bishop of Exeter Brindley brought carried cause CHAPTER character Chartists classes commenced condition Congress connection consequence corn laws cotton Dale David Dale desire districts Duke of Kent duty efforts employed employers employment establishment evils existence experiment fact favour felt friends Glasgow Government Gray's Inn Road habits human ideas ignorance improvement increase industry interest kind Labour Exchange Lanark land large numbers London Lord Aberdeen machinery Manchester manufacturing means meeting ment mills mind misery moral movement nation necessary necessity never object operations opinion opposition Owen's partners pauper persons plans population possessed practical present principles proceedings produce profit proposed purpose Queenwood question reform regard religion religious result Robert Dale Owen Robert Owen Salford says Scotland Socialists society spirit success suffering things thought tion took town trade truth visited wealth workers Xalapa young
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Pàgina 70 - Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years? They are leaning their young heads against their mothers, And that cannot stop their tears. The young lambs are bleating in the meadows, The young birds are chirping in the nest, The young fawns are playing with the shadows, The young flowers are blowing towards the west — But the young, young children, O my brothers, They are weeping bitterly! They are weeping in the playtime of the others, in the country of the free.
Pàgina 69 - Safe in their barns these Sabine tillers sent Their brethren out to battle - why? for rent! Year after year they voted cent.
Pàgina 86 - Any general character, from the best to the worst, from the most ignorant to the most enlightened, may be given to any community, even to the world at large, by the application of proper means; which means are to a great extent at the command and under the control of those who have influence in the affairs of men.
Pàgina 158 - ID silence : for, alas, what word was to be said ? An Earth all lying round, crying, Come and till me, come and reap me ; — yet we...
Pàgina 99 - If, then, due care as to the state of your inanimate machines can produce such beneficial results, what may not be expected if you devote equal attention to your vital machines, which are far more wonderfully constructed.
Pàgina 69 - See these inglorious Cincinnati swarm, Farmers of war, dictators of the farm ; Their ploughshare was the sword in hireling hands, Their fields manured by gore of other lands; Safe in their barns, these Sabine tillers sent Their bretliren out to battle — why?
Pàgina 99 - Many of you have long experienced in your manufacturing operations the advantages of substantial, wellcontrived, and well-executed machinery. Experience has also shown you the difference of the results between mechanism which is neat, clean, wellarranged, and always in a high state of repair; and that which is allowed to be dirty, in disorder, without the means of preventing unnecessary friction, and which therefore becomes, and works, much out of repair.
Pàgina 37 - ... such infection is received, it is rapidly propagated, not only amongst those who are crowded together in the same apartments, but in the families and neighbourhoods to which they belong.
Pàgina 100 - Will you, then, continue to expend large sums of money to procure the best devised mechanism of wood, brass, or iron, and to retain it in perfect repair, — to provide the best substance for the prevention of unnecessary friction, and to save it from falling into premature decay...
Pàgina 28 - I have mentioned, sufficient for the consumption of one weaver, this shows clearly the inexhaustible source there was for labour for every person from the age of seven to eighty years (who retained their sight and could move their hands) to earn their bread, say one to three shillings per week, without going to the parish.