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... better off than before . " What the middleman formerly got the employer would first absorb as profit , while he , in turn , would be waylaid by the landlord , who would carry off the whole saving in the name of rent . The lord of the ...
... better off than before . " What the middleman formerly got the employer would first absorb as profit , while he , in turn , would be waylaid by the landlord , who would carry off the whole saving in the name of rent . The lord of the ...
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... better trade instead of worse trade . We find a vast increase of trade , and we do not find that the increase of men is so great as to absorb the profits of that trade . That is to say , while mouths have rapidly in- creased the means ...
... better trade instead of worse trade . We find a vast increase of trade , and we do not find that the increase of men is so great as to absorb the profits of that trade . That is to say , while mouths have rapidly in- creased the means ...
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... better spade . And it is so . The earth is yielding to us such harvests as makes our statistics sound like a fairy tale . Yet many are starving , or are not far from starvation . How is this ? It is a simple problem . If there are a ...
... better spade . And it is so . The earth is yielding to us such harvests as makes our statistics sound like a fairy tale . Yet many are starving , or are not far from starvation . How is this ? It is a simple problem . If there are a ...
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... better than study this excellent pamphlet . Mr. Healy points out that from first to last the greatest tion with the land . wrongs inflicted upon Ireland have been in connec- and shows how , after the rebellions of Tyrone and He begins ...
... better than study this excellent pamphlet . Mr. Healy points out that from first to last the greatest tion with the land . wrongs inflicted upon Ireland have been in connec- and shows how , after the rebellions of Tyrone and He begins ...
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... better than agri- culturists , for the jealousy of the English crushed all rising industry and commercial enterprise . The condition of the country only became worse after the legislative union of 1800 , and the effect of this measure ...
... better than agri- culturists , for the jealousy of the English crushed all rising industry and commercial enterprise . The condition of the country only became worse after the legislative union of 1800 , and the effect of this measure ...
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Page 191 - I can give not what men call love : But wilt thou accept not The worship the heart lifts above, And the Heavens reject not : The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow...
Page 268 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Page 116 - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
Page 89 - Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Page 191 - BREATHES there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go, mark him well; For him no minstrel raptures swell; High though his titles, proud his name, $ Boundless his wealth as wish can claim, — Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And,...
Page 258 - Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their olive-yards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them.
Page 191 - It is good to be merry and wise, It is good to be honest and true ; It is good to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new.
Page 208 - I am now trying an experiment very frequent among modern authors, which is to write upon nothing? when the subject is utterly exhausted, to let the pen still move on; by some called the ghost of wit, delighting to walk after the death of its body.
Page 258 - And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you: and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.
Page 24 - And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said unto the people, There are six days in which men ought to work : in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.