The Laboring Classes of England: Especially Those Concerned in Agriculture and Manufactures ; in a Series of LettersJ. Putnam, 1848 - 168 Seiten |
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Seite 120 - ... a little lower than the angels, and crowned with glory and honor.
Seite 126 - What are the common wages of labour, depends everywhere upon the contract usually made between those two parties, whose interests are by no means the same. The workmen desire to get as much, the masters to give as little, as possible. The former are disposed to combine in order to raise, the latter in order to lower, the wages of labour.
Seite 120 - Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul...
Seite 28 - Manchester and the environs to be 230,000, more than one-half of its inhabitants are, therefore, either so destitute or so degraded, as to require the assistance of public charity in bringing their offspring into the world.
Seite 158 - Scattered like flowers, the rosy children play — Or round her chair a busy crowd they press; But, at the Father's coming, start away, With playful struggle for his loved caress, And jealous of the one he first may bless. To each, a welcoming word is fondly said; He bends and kisses some; lifts up the less; Admires the little cheek, so round and red, Or smooths with tender hand the curled and shining head.
Seite 38 - Cottages generally have only two bed-rooms (with very rare exceptions) ; a great many have only one. The consequence is that it is very often extremely difficult, if not impossible, to divide a family, so that grown-up persons of different sexes — brothers and sisters, fathers and daughters — do not sleep in the same room. Three or four persons not unfrequently sleep in the same bed.
Seite 96 - In one mountain school visited by the writer in 1914, the pupils were sitting in rough hoard pews, the boys on one side of the room and the girls on the other.
Seite 61 - ... they were flogged, fettered, and tortured in the most exquisite refinement of cruelty; that they were, in many cases, starved to the bone while flogged to their work, and...
Seite 150 - Beyond all sorrow which the wanderer knows, Is that these little pent-up wretches feel; Where the air thick and close and stagnant grows, And the low whirring of the incessant wheel Dizzies the head, and makes the senses reel: There, shut for ever from the gladdening sky, Vice premature and Care's corroding seal Stamp on each sallow cheek their hateful die, Line the smooth open brow, and sink the saddened eye.
Seite 64 - A most atrocious instance had been brought before the Court of King's Bench two years ago, in which a number of these boys, apprenticed by a parish in London to one manufacturer, had been transferred to another, and had been found by some benevolent persons in a state of absolute famine. Another...