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... rich at the expense of the poor , but first and chiefly to protect the poor and the weak against the rich and the powerful . Some are disheartened at the present time because so - called Liberal organisations have not obtained their ...
... rich at the expense of the poor , but first and chiefly to protect the poor and the weak against the rich and the powerful . Some are disheartened at the present time because so - called Liberal organisations have not obtained their ...
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... Rich Man's Club at St. Stephen's . A resolution in favour of Home Rule would have been greatly more to the purpose . " Mines Regulation Reform " is sufficiently vague , but that drastic reform is needed no man can doubt . The occupation ...
... Rich Man's Club at St. Stephen's . A resolution in favour of Home Rule would have been greatly more to the purpose . " Mines Regulation Reform " is sufficiently vague , but that drastic reform is needed no man can doubt . The occupation ...
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... rich , and the most crushing economy in the wages of the poor . There is no necessity for such enormous pay- ments to shipowners , as the best speed must now be made for their own advantage and the development of general business . And ...
... rich , and the most crushing economy in the wages of the poor . There is no necessity for such enormous pay- ments to shipowners , as the best speed must now be made for their own advantage and the development of general business . And ...
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... rich and the poor . -Beaconsfield . Let the great lords of Scotland beware ; if once they believe that they have no need of the people the people may in their turn begin to think that they have no need of them . -Sismondi . That is a ...
... rich and the poor . -Beaconsfield . Let the great lords of Scotland beware ; if once they believe that they have no need of the people the people may in their turn begin to think that they have no need of them . -Sismondi . That is a ...
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... rich herbage with which God's people were fed by the hands of Moses . " The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God : in it thou thalt not do any work , thou , nor thy son , nor thy daughter , nor thy manservant , nor thy ...
... rich herbage with which God's people were fed by the hands of Moses . " The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God : in it thou thalt not do any work , thou , nor thy son , nor thy daughter , nor thy manservant , nor thy ...
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Common terms and phrases
acres action allowed amount asked become benefit better Bill British building called carried cause charge Church claim classes comes common condition cost demand DEMOCRAT duty effect England English existence fact farmers force George give given Government ground hands hold Home House human improvements increase industry interest Ireland Irish keep labour land landlords less Liberal live London look Lord matter means meeting ment millions natural never object obtain once owners paid Parliament party passed persons political poor present principle privileged produce proposed purchase question reason received reform rent result rich Rule shilling society stand taken tenants things thousand tion Tory trade true wages whole
Popular passages
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.