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... hour is not a whit more defensible . The English Parliament , from motives of humanity , have thought proper to limit even the labour of males to ten hours in the factories ; but such a course is more an apparent than a real benefit 30.
... hour is not a whit more defensible . The English Parliament , from motives of humanity , have thought proper to limit even the labour of males to ten hours in the factories ; but such a course is more an apparent than a real benefit 30.
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... parliaments " they are so anxious to establish ; but , since the schoolmaster has clearly made such slight progress in his vocation , most persons , who have any pretensions to common sense , will prefer " the ancient parliaments " of ...
... parliaments " they are so anxious to establish ; but , since the schoolmaster has clearly made such slight progress in his vocation , most persons , who have any pretensions to common sense , will prefer " the ancient parliaments " of ...
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... Parliament , resenting the despotic course pursued by James II . , transferred the crown to the Prince and Princess of Orange , so did the French Chambers in 1830 , from a similar cause , depose the Legitimate Family , and elect the ...
... Parliament , resenting the despotic course pursued by James II . , transferred the crown to the Prince and Princess of Orange , so did the French Chambers in 1830 , from a similar cause , depose the Legitimate Family , and elect the ...
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... Parliament , cannot be ques- tioned at the present day , except by those persons who regard an absolute monarchy as the most perfect form of political government , and who still believe in the obsolete dogmas of passive obedience and ...
... Parliament , cannot be ques- tioned at the present day , except by those persons who regard an absolute monarchy as the most perfect form of political government , and who still believe in the obsolete dogmas of passive obedience and ...
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... Parliaments , it was particularly observed and lamented : " The most that aggrieved the Parliament , of a was the king's concessions for the good of 233.
... Parliaments , it was particularly observed and lamented : " The most that aggrieved the Parliament , of a was the king's concessions for the good of 233.
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Página 496 - midst its dreary dells, Whose walls more awful nod By thy religious gleams. Or, if chill blustering winds, or driving rain, Prevent my willing feet, be mine the hut, That, from the mountain's side, Views wilds, and swelling floods, And hamlets brown, and dim-discover'd spires, And hears their simple bell, and marks o'er all Thy dewy fingers draw The gradual dusky veil.
Página 277 - If you aim at a Scottish Presbytery, it agreeth as well with monarchy as God and the devil. Then Jack, and Tom, and Will, and Dick, shall meet, and at their pleasure censure me and my council, and all our proceedings ; then Will shall stand up and say, It must be thus ; then Dick shall reply, Nay, marry, but we will have it thus.
Página 494 - twas wild. But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure ! Still it whispered promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail ! Still would her touch the strain prolong, And from the rocks, the woods, the vale, She called on Echo still through all the song ; And where her sweetest theme she chose, A soft, responsive voice was heard at every close, And Hope, enchanted, smiled, and waved her golden hair.
Página 496 - O'erhang his wavy bed, Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn...
Página 489 - Cameron's gathering" rose, The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard,— and heard, too, have her Saxon foes; How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills Savage and shrill! But with the breath which fills Their mountain pipe, so fill the mountaineers With the fierce native daring which instils The stirring memory of a thousand years, And Evan's, Donald's fame rings in each clansman's ears!
Página 494 - Pour'd through the mellow horn her pensive soul: And dashing soft from rocks around Bubbling runnels jtiin'd the sound ; Through glades and glooms the mingled measure stole, Or, o'er some haunted stream, with fond delay, Round an holy calm diffusing, Love of peace, and lonely musing, In hollow murmurs died away.
Página 204 - O could I flow like thee ! and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ; Though deep yet clear, though gentle yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full.
Página 424 - The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home.
Página 218 - That as to dispute what God may do is blasphemy, ... so is it sedition in subjects to dispute what a king may do in the height of his power.
Página 497 - Winter yelling through the troublous air, Affrights thy shrinking train, And rudely rends thy robes : So long, regardful of thy quiet rule, Shall Fancy, Friendship, Science, smiling Peace, Thy gentlest influence own, And love thy favourite name ! ODE TO PEACE.