The Condition and Fate of England ...H. G. Langley, 1845 |
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Side 96
... amount of direct and indirect taxation which weighs down the people of England . Besides the interest on the national debt ( $ 150,000,000 ) there is expend- ed every year over one hundred millions of dol- lars , making the sum annually ...
... amount of direct and indirect taxation which weighs down the people of England . Besides the interest on the national debt ( $ 150,000,000 ) there is expend- ed every year over one hundred millions of dol- lars , making the sum annually ...
Side 101
... amount col- lected by customs , we shall have a very inadequate idea of the real burden imposed on the people . For example ; the duties collected on the CORN imported in 1839 , were only a little more than $ 5,000,000 ; but as it will ...
... amount col- lected by customs , we shall have a very inadequate idea of the real burden imposed on the people . For example ; the duties collected on the CORN imported in 1839 , were only a little more than $ 5,000,000 ; but as it will ...
Side 103
... to pay 52s . I am now paying 84s . and 86s . for ; and we are in- formed the price will be still higher . " We learn from this report , that in 1820 the amount of sugar consumed in the United King- dom and THE BRITISH PEOPLE . 103.
... to pay 52s . I am now paying 84s . and 86s . for ; and we are in- formed the price will be still higher . " We learn from this report , that in 1820 the amount of sugar consumed in the United King- dom and THE BRITISH PEOPLE . 103.
Side 104
... amount consumed in England in propor- tion to the population . The reason of this differ- ence is apparent . The poor Englishman , or Scotchman , or Irishman can make no extensive use of sugar , when he is compelled to pay three or four ...
... amount consumed in England in propor- tion to the population . The reason of this differ- ence is apparent . The poor Englishman , or Scotchman , or Irishman can make no extensive use of sugar , when he is compelled to pay three or four ...
Side 108
... amount almost to prohibition being laid on every other kind of meat , this great necessary of human life has been nearly placed beyond the reach of the lower classes . The English are called a beef- eating nation ; a portion of them are ...
... amount almost to prohibition being laid on every other kind of meat , this great necessary of human life has been nearly placed beyond the reach of the lower classes . The English are called a beef- eating nation ; a portion of them are ...
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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...