The Crown of Wild Olive: Four Letters on Industry and WarSmith, Elder, & Company, 1873 - 210 páginas |
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... WORK CONTENTS . PAGE I LECTURE I. 21 LECTURE II . TRAFFIC 62 LECTURE III . WAR 98 LECTURE IV . THE FUTURE OF ENGLAND 146 APPENDIX . NOTES ON THE ECONOMIES OF THE KINGS OF PRUSSIA ...... 177 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE . INTRODUCTION . * 1.
... WORK CONTENTS . PAGE I LECTURE I. 21 LECTURE II . TRAFFIC 62 LECTURE III . WAR 98 LECTURE IV . THE FUTURE OF ENGLAND 146 APPENDIX . NOTES ON THE ECONOMIES OF THE KINGS OF PRUSSIA ...... 177 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE . INTRODUCTION . * 1.
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... England , nor any more pathetic , in the world , by its expression of sweet human character and life , than that immediately bordering on the sources of the Wandle , and includ- ing the low moors of Addington , and the villages of ...
... England , nor any more pathetic , in the world , by its expression of sweet human character and life , than that immediately bordering on the sources of the Wandle , and includ- ing the low moors of Addington , and the villages of ...
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... England - for the poor of all countries - is wholly omitted in every common treatise on the subject of wealth . Even by the labourers themselves , the operation of capital is regarded only in its effect on 8 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE .
... England - for the poor of all countries - is wholly omitted in every common treatise on the subject of wealth . Even by the labourers themselves , the operation of capital is regarded only in its effect on 8 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE .
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... what hope , I regard this Institute , as one of many such , now happily estab- lished throughout England , as well as in other countries ; and preparing the way for a great change ( 21 ) INTRODUCTORY I LECTURE I WORK.
... what hope , I regard this Institute , as one of many such , now happily estab- lished throughout England , as well as in other countries ; and preparing the way for a great change ( 21 ) INTRODUCTORY I LECTURE I WORK.
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... England spend their lives in playing at . The first of all English games is making money . That is an all - absorbing game ; and we knock each other down oftener in playing at that , than at foot- ball , or any other roughest sport ...
... England spend their lives in playing at . The first of all English games is making money . That is an all - absorbing game ; and we knock each other down oftener in playing at that , than at foot- ball , or any other roughest sport ...
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Página 112 - Fire!' 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.
Página 69 - Ten of them were sheathed in steel, With belted sword, and spur on heel : They quitted not their harness bright Neither by day nor yet by night • They lay down to rest, With corslet laced, Pillowed on buckler cold and hard ; They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barred.
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