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... district were often made to bear the burden of building a church for Protestants who perhaps lived fifty miles away . Thus had the burden of Protestant church- building to be borne not only by Catholics who lived where Protestants were ...
... district were often made to bear the burden of building a church for Protestants who perhaps lived fifty miles away . Thus had the burden of Protestant church- building to be borne not only by Catholics who lived where Protestants were ...
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... ignorance by the meridian light which the Reformers brought - superstitions such as , we are told , are to be found " in backward districts " of Ireland to - day " sapping all strength of 48 THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND PROGRESS .
... ignorance by the meridian light which the Reformers brought - superstitions such as , we are told , are to be found " in backward districts " of Ireland to - day " sapping all strength of 48 THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND PROGRESS .
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... district , and there keep them , generally in some dark cellar , till they could hand them over to the mill - owner in want of hands , who would come and examine their height , strength , and bodily capacities , exactly as did the slave ...
... district , and there keep them , generally in some dark cellar , till they could hand them over to the mill - owner in want of hands , who would come and examine their height , strength , and bodily capacities , exactly as did the slave ...
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... districts ? If it does not recount fables , your mines contained not long since , a degree of misery and a peculiar species of de- gradation , whereof we in this country know nothing . Amongst us , women have never toiled in the ...
... districts ? If it does not recount fables , your mines contained not long since , a degree of misery and a peculiar species of de- gradation , whereof we in this country know nothing . Amongst us , women have never toiled in the ...
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... districts Have you ever read any of the Parliamentary Reports on that subject ? . In Irish hovels you meet with a worship which you con- demn ; it is in English manufacturing districts that you are confronted by multitudes who have ...
... districts Have you ever read any of the Parliamentary Reports on that subject ? . In Irish hovels you meet with a worship which you con- demn ; it is in English manufacturing districts that you are confronted by multitudes who have ...
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Page 22 - This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.
Page 288 - No one shall run on the Sabbath day, or walk in his garden or elsewhere, except reverently to and from meeting. "No one shall travel, cook victuals, make beds, sweep house, cut hair, or shave, on the Sabbath day.
Page 140 - ... of the like manufactures have of late been made, and are daily increasing in the kingdom of Ireland, and in the English plantations in America, and are exported from thence to foreign markets, heretofore supplied from England, which will inevitably sink the value of lands, and tend to the ruin of the trade, and the woollen manufactures of this realm; for the prevention whereof, and for the encouragement of the woollen manufactures within this kingdom.
Page 107 - Full religious liberty is granted by the constitution, and part of the income of the ministers of all denominations is paid from the national treasury. The amount thus...
Page 359 - These are they whom we had some time in derision, and for a parable of reproach. We fools esteemed their life madness, and their end without honour. Behold, how they are numbered among the children of God, and their lot is among the saints.
Page 67 - England has erected no churches, no hospitals, no palaces, no schools ; England has built no bridges, made no high roads, cut no navigations, dug out no reservoirs. Every other conqueror of every other description has left some monument, either of state or beneficence, behind him. Were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing would remain to tell that it had been possessed, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by anything better than the ourang-outang or the tiger.
Page 250 - And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of truth, that they might be saved.
Page 440 - ... and that the time for giving it be so fixed, that no child shall be thereby in effect excluded directly or indirectly from the other advantages which the school affords.
Page 78 - ... in the American markets. After that the children were simply at the mercy of their owners, nominally as apprentices, but in reality as mere slaves, who got no wages, and whom it was not worth while even to feed or clothe properly, because they were so cheap and their places could be so easily supplied.
Page 160 - In Limerick, Tipperary, Clare, Meath, and Waterford, there were to be found, in the words of Arthur Young, ' the greatest graziers and cowkeepers perhaps in the world, some who rent and occupy from 3,0001.