Political and Social Economy: Its Practical Application |
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Political and Social Economy: Its Practical Application (Classic Reprint) <span dir=ltr>John Hill Burton</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2017 |
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able advantage amount appear applied become believe better called capital cause character civilisation condition considered desire difficulty districts duty effect elements employed energy established evil exertion existence extent fact fortune fund give habits hand hold human idle increase individual industry influence instance interest keep labour land least leave less limited live look manufacturing means ment nature necessary never object obtain occupation operation passed perform perhaps persons poor population portion position possess practical present principle produce profits progress protection race received regulations removed require respectable rich saving skill social society sometimes supply thing tion towns trade true wages wealth whole working-classes workmen
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 249 - Great in the earth, as in the ethereal frame; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees; Lives through all life, extends through all extent; Spreads undivided, operates unspent!
עמוד 189 - Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.
עמוד 321 - Many murders have been discovered among them; and they are not only a most unspeakable oppression to poor tenants (who if they give not bread, or some kind of provision to perhaps forty such villains in one day, are sure to be insulted by them) but they rob many poor people who live in houses distant from any neighbourhood. In years of plenty...
עמוד 49 - Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife ! Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant ! Let the dead Past bury its dead ! Act, — act in the living Present! Heart within, and God o'erhead! Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time ; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
עמוד 131 - Does he not feel that it is as honorable to owe it to these, as to being the accident of an accident ? — To all these noble lords, the language of the noble duke is as applicable and as insulting as it is to myself. But I don't fear to meet it single and alone.
עמוד 131 - No one venerates the peerage more than I do ; but, my lords, I must say that the peerage solicited me, — not I the peerage.
עמוד 321 - There are, at this day, in Scotland (besides a great many poor families, very meanly provided for by the church boxes, with others who, by living upon bad food, fall into various diseases) two hundred thousand people begging from door to door.
עמוד 199 - The plough of each man was confined to the maintenance of his own family, or to the occasional accommodation of his neighbour.
עמוד 13 - Thro' the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger day: Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.
עמוד 128 - Lévite — such was the phrase then in use — might be had for his board, a small garret, and ten pounds a year, and might not only perform his own professional functions, might not only be the most patient of butts and...