The mother country: or, The spade, the wastes, and the eldest son. An examination of the condition of EnglandWilliam S. Orr & Company, 1849 - 162 стор. |
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acres agriculture allotments become beggars Belgium believe better Bishop of Bath British Relief Association bushels capital cent charity church clover comfort cottage Court of Chancery cows crime crops cultivation customers duty employment England English entail equal estates evil expense fee simple feed freehold greater half hands Hasketon heart horse human improved increase industry Ireland Irish keep kingdom labour large farmers live Lord mankind manufacturers manure masses means millions moral nation nature neighbouring never paid parish paupers peace peasant peasantry pigs plough political poor rates population possess potatoes primogeniture produce profit proprietors quantity quarters raise real property red republicans rent rich Saxon secure small farms small holdings social society soil soul spade spirit taxes tenant thing tion trade truth turnips virtue wages waste lands wealth wheat whole wise
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Сторінка 159 - Methinks I see, in my mind, a noble and puissant nation, rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks; methinks I see her as an eaglo renewing her mighty youth, and kindling
Сторінка vi - Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion, in good men, is but knowledge in the making. Under these fantastic terrors of sect and schism, we wrong the
Сторінка 159 - renewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam; purging and unsealing her long abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means. " What should ye do, then; should ye suppress all this flowery crop of knowledge and new light,
Сторінка 159 - to bring a famine upon our minds again, when we shall know nothing but what is measured to us by their bushel? Believe it, Lords and Commons! they who counsel ye to such a suppressing, DO AS GOOD AS BID YE SUPPRESS YOURSELVES.
Сторінка viii - tradition of crowding free consciences and Christian liberties into canons and precepts of men, I doubt not, if some great and worthy stranger were to come among us, wise to discern the mould and temper of a people, and how to govern it, observing the high hopes and aims, the diligent alacrity of our extended thoughts and reasons, in
Сторінка 119 - And Herod was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon; but they came with one accord to him, and having made Blastus, the king's chamberlain, their friend, DESIRED PEACE; BECAUSE THEIR COUNTRY WAS NOURISHED BY THE KING'S COUNTRY."—Acts xii.,
Сторінка viii - when you see the whole world hastening the other way ? •' A little generous prudence, a little forbearance of one another, and some grain of charity, might win all these diligences to join and unite into one general and brotherly search after truth; could we but forego this
Сторінка 32 - Arthur Young many a long year ago, "the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.
Сторінка vi - to seek after knowledge ? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies?
Сторінка viii - pursuance of truth and freedom, but that he would cry out as Pyrrhus did, admiring the Roman docility and courage, ' If such were my Epirots, I would not despair the greatest design that could be attempted to make a church or kingdom happy.'