Democrat1886 |
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... unjust and permanently disastrous . The Government intend to enforce the exaction of rents which are admitted to be excessive , and in doing so they are encouraged by Lord Har- tington , who urges them to carry out this policy without ...
... unjust and permanently disastrous . The Government intend to enforce the exaction of rents which are admitted to be excessive , and in doing so they are encouraged by Lord Har- tington , who urges them to carry out this policy without ...
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... unjust and mendacious charge of indifference to human suffering was never made . Michael Davitt has striven nobly to keep the cause he loves free from outrage , and has done more than any living man to sow the seeds of good will between ...
... unjust and mendacious charge of indifference to human suffering was never made . Michael Davitt has striven nobly to keep the cause he loves free from outrage , and has done more than any living man to sow the seeds of good will between ...
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... unjustly obtain , working men will have to labour without remuneration , and this in perpetuity , or until the nation sinks under the burdens imposed upon an industrious people by unscrupulous legislators . The question comes - Will the ...
... unjustly obtain , working men will have to labour without remuneration , and this in perpetuity , or until the nation sinks under the burdens imposed upon an industrious people by unscrupulous legislators . The question comes - Will the ...
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... unjust claims of idle landlords . Even if landlords had a right to any payment , this payment should be the last , and not the first , to receive Government protection and enforce- ment . Our rulers must learn that their proper duty is ...
... unjust claims of idle landlords . Even if landlords had a right to any payment , this payment should be the last , and not the first , to receive Government protection and enforce- ment . Our rulers must learn that their proper duty is ...
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... unjust . When the Government pur- chased the the telegraph companies , it was provided by Act of Parliament that all the employés and officers of the old companies should be compensated , if not re - engaged , provided they received ...
... unjust . When the Government pur- chased the the telegraph companies , it was provided by Act of Parliament that all the employés and officers of the old companies should be compensated , if not re - engaged , provided they received ...
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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.