The Condition and Fate of England ...H. G. Langley, 1845 |
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... England made her great mistake , - " either Charles the First never should have been brought to the block , or ... Church and State from their harlot - embrace - fling the reins of government to the people , and bid them guide ...
... England made her great mistake , - " either Charles the First never should have been brought to the block , or ... Church and State from their harlot - embrace - fling the reins of government to the people , and bid them guide ...
Side 26
... church rates , corn - laws , excise and custom duties , & c . must be employed to legalize the robbery . The mass of the people behold this stream of gold incessantly flowing from them towards their idle and profligate oppressors ...
... church rates , corn - laws , excise and custom duties , & c . must be employed to legalize the robbery . The mass of the people behold this stream of gold incessantly flowing from them towards their idle and profligate oppressors ...
Side 27
... church rest . The greatest , keenest - sighted men of England know this , and they begin to study these new and alarming appearances , as philoso- phers study volcanoes , not to see what they shall do with the volcano , but what the ...
... church rest . The greatest , keenest - sighted men of England know this , and they begin to study these new and alarming appearances , as philoso- phers study volcanoes , not to see what they shall do with the volcano , but what the ...
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... - ments , we forget not , that many million pounds were during this same period wrung from the English people to support a National Church , whose funds would have richly maintained schools , churches , 68 GENERAL CONDITION OF THE.
... - ments , we forget not , that many million pounds were during this same period wrung from the English people to support a National Church , whose funds would have richly maintained schools , churches , 68 GENERAL CONDITION OF THE.
Side 69
... Church Tory Magazine thinks they never can abuse enough ; that with these heathen orders the established clergy had nothing to do . And yet this same Re- view has loudly clamoured for church extension , with a clergy which , on its own ...
... Church Tory Magazine thinks they never can abuse enough ; that with these heathen orders the established clergy had nothing to do . And yet this same Re- view has loudly clamoured for church extension , with a clergy which , on its own ...
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Side 30 - I rightly conceived your meaning ; and if, as you say, confessing a truth indeed may procure my safety, I shall with all willingness and duty, perform your command. " But let not your grace ever imagine that your poor wife will ever be brought to acknowledge a fault, where not so much as a thought thereof preceded.
Side 49 - is given ; and they blow the souls out of ,one another ; and in place of sixty brisk, useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcasses, which it must bury, and anew shed tears for. Had these men any quarrel ? Busy as the Devil is, not the smallest! They lived far enough apart; were the entirest strangers; nay, in so wide a Universe, there was even, unconsciously, by Commerce, some mutual helpfulness between them. How then? Simpleton! their Governors had fallen out; and instead of shooting one...
Side 49 - natural enemies" of the French, there are successively selected, during the French war, say thirty able-bodied men : Dumdrudge, at her own expense, has suckled and nursed them ; she has, not without difficulty and sorrow, fed them up to manhood, and even trained them to crafts, so that one can weave, another build, another hammer, and the weakest can stand erect under thirty stone avoirdupois.
Side 235 - We have offended, Oh! my countrymen! We have offended very grievously, And been most tyrannous. From east to west A groan of accusation pierces Heaven! The wretched plead against us; multitudes Countless and vehement, the sons of God, Our brethren!
Side 49 - Dumdrudge, at her own expense, has suckled and nursed them : she has, not without difficulty and sorrow, fed them up to manhood, and even trained them to crafts, so that one can weave, another build, another hammer, and the weakest can stand under thirty stone avoirdupois. Nevertheless, amid much weeping and swearing, they are selected; all dressed in red ; and shipped away, at the public charges, some two thousand miles, or say only to the south of Spain ; and fed there till wanted. And now to that...
Side 260 - I wish to call the attention of the Board to the pits about Brampton. The seams are so thin that several of them have only two feet headway to all the working. They are worked altogether by boys from eight to twelve years of age, on all-fours, with a dog belt and chain. The passages being neither ironed nor wooded, and often an inch or two thick with mud. In Mr. Barnes...
Side 30 - God that he will pardon your great sin therein, and likewise mine enemies, the instruments thereof, and that he will not call you to a strict account for your unprincely and cruel usage of me, at his general judgment-seat, where both you and myself must shortly appear, and in whose judgment I doubt not, whatsoever the world' may think of me, mine innocence shall be openly known and sufficiently cleared.
Side 268 - I found assembled round a fire a group of men, boys, and girls, some of whom were of the age of puberty; the girls as well as the boys stark naked down to the waist, their hair bound up with a tight cap, and trousers supported by their hips.
Side 54 - It is a melancholy truth, that among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than an hundred and sixty have been declared by act of parliament to be felonies without the benefit of clergy; or, in other words to be worthy of instant death.
Side 30 - Try me, good king : but let me have a lawful trial, and let not my sworn enemies sit as my accusers and judges ; yea, let me receive an open trial, for my truth shall fear no open shame...