The Nineteenth Century, Volume 9Henry S. King & Company, 1881 - Nineteenth century |
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... labour before the birth of capital . The two all - controlling economic necessities of primitive society have everywhere been defence and food - war and agriculture . Hence arose everywhere the division of society in its early tribal ...
... labour before the birth of capital . The two all - controlling economic necessities of primitive society have everywhere been defence and food - war and agriculture . Hence arose everywhere the division of society in its early tribal ...
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... labour . These facts produced the ' tenant farmer , ' and the reason why in England the area under ' tenant farming ' and the individual holdings are so large , is that economic laws have favoured first the accumulation of capital and ...
... labour . These facts produced the ' tenant farmer , ' and the reason why in England the area under ' tenant farming ' and the individual holdings are so large , is that economic laws have favoured first the accumulation of capital and ...
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... labour . 15 Need there be any wonder that a custom of tenant right in these half a million cabins should be found to exist at the end of that period , strong enough in some districts to ensure practical recognition though unrecognised ...
... labour . 15 Need there be any wonder that a custom of tenant right in these half a million cabins should be found to exist at the end of that period , strong enough in some districts to ensure practical recognition though unrecognised ...
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... labour and capital expended here or there ; and according to the answer cultivate the Irish bog or leave it alone . Instead of rooting greater numbers to the soil , let in the daylight of education , and trust to the growth of ...
... labour and capital expended here or there ; and according to the answer cultivate the Irish bog or leave it alone . Instead of rooting greater numbers to the soil , let in the daylight of education , and trust to the growth of ...
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... labour to reclaim the surface which would be cut gradually away as the turf - banks encroach . The surface , too , of cut - away bogs barely repays the outlay of recla- mation . It would be better and more for the benefit of the country ...
... labour to reclaim the surface which would be cut gradually away as the turf - banks encroach . The surface , too , of cut - away bogs barely repays the outlay of recla- mation . It would be better and more for the benefit of the country ...
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Page 103 - Faintly as tolls the evening chime Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time. Soon as the woods on shore look dim, We'll sing at St. Ann's our parting hymn. Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The Rapids are near and the daylight's past.
Page 740 - When the Priest, standing before the table, hath so ordered the bread and wine, that he may with the more readiness and decency break the bread before the people, and take the cup into his hands...
Page 635 - But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.
Page 685 - Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them; they looked like anatomies of death ; they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves...
Page 740 - THE blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, which was shed for thee, preserve thy body and soul unto everlasting life!
Page 635 - And Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said unto him, Art thou the man that spakest unto the woman ? And he said, I am. And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass. How shall we order the child, and how shall we do unto him...
Page 685 - But I am not in the least pain upon that matter, because it is very well known, that they are every day dying, and rotting, by cold, and famine, and filth, and vermin, as fast as can be reasonably expected.
Page 760 - Yet these commonplace people — many of them — bear a conscience, and have felt the sublime prompting to do the painful right ; they have their unspoken sorrows, and their sacred joys; their hearts have perhaps gone out towards their first-born, and they have mourned over the irreclaimable dead. Nay, is there not a pathos in their very insignificance,- — in our comparison of their dim and narrow existence with the glorious possibilities of that human nature which they share...
Page 786 - When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rhyme, In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights, Then in the blazon of sweet beauty's best, Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow, I see their antique pen would have express'd Even such a beauty as you master now.
Page 685 - ... after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue there withal; that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast...