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... persons connected with it . Some may be inclined to complain of the somewhat disproportionate length of the chapter on the repeal of the fiscal restrictions on literature and the Press , but I believe its length is justified by the fact ...
... persons connected with it . Some may be inclined to complain of the somewhat disproportionate length of the chapter on the repeal of the fiscal restrictions on literature and the Press , but I believe its length is justified by the fact ...
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... person in whose house he went to board and lodge amply to supply him , though an utter stranger , with both clothes and money , and to maintain him upon the faith of being paid when he got home or could obtain remittances . ” To this ...
... person in whose house he went to board and lodge amply to supply him , though an utter stranger , with both clothes and money , and to maintain him upon the faith of being paid when he got home or could obtain remittances . ” To this ...
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... character . Thus , speaking of Geneva , “ There are in it some exemplary persons ; yet the a Howard Begins his Life - work . 23 principles of. he says : * Blackwood's Magazine , January , 1850 , art . 22 Prison Reform .
... character . Thus , speaking of Geneva , “ There are in it some exemplary persons ; yet the a Howard Begins his Life - work . 23 principles of. he says : * Blackwood's Magazine , January , 1850 , art . 22 Prison Reform .
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... persons having been locked up in some of them , not sixteen feet square ; and at the same time that these rooms have been so crowded , to the great endangering the health of the prisoners , the largest room on the common side hath been ...
... persons having been locked up in some of them , not sixteen feet square ; and at the same time that these rooms have been so crowded , to the great endangering the health of the prisoners , the largest room on the common side hath been ...
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... persons who breathe in that narrow compass , that it is not sufficient to keep them from stifling , several having in the heat of summer perished for want of air . ” Horrible as this account is , its horrors do not nearly come up to ...
... persons who breathe in that narrow compass , that it is not sufficient to keep them from stifling , several having in the heat of summer perished for want of air . ” Horrible as this account is , its horrors do not nearly come up to ...
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Page 59 - No matter in what language his doom may have been pronounced ; no matter what complexion incompatible with freedom, an Indian or an African sun may have burnt upon him ; no matter in what disastrous battle his liberty may have been cloven down ; no matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of slavery ; the first moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the god sink together in the dust ; his soul walks abroad in her own majesty ; his body swells beyond...
Page 13 - He has visited all Europe, — not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts : — but to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt...
Page 135 - ... the blow that rends its kindred throne! You have said, my lords, you have willed — the Church and the King have willed — that the Queen should be deprived of its solemn service! She has, instead of that solemnity, the heartfelt prayers of the people. She wants no prayers of mine. But I do here pour forth my humble...
Page 273 - That live according to her sober laws, And holy dictate of spare temperance : If every just man, that now pines with want, Had but a moderate and beseeming share Of that which lewdly-pampered luxury Now heaps upon some few with vast excess, Nature's full blessings would be well dispensed In unsuperfluous even proportion, And she no whit encumbered with her store...
Page 136 - ... kindred Throne ! You have said, my Lords, you have willed — -the Church and the King have willed — that the Queen should be deprived of its solemn service. She has instead of that solemnity, the heartfelt prayers of the people. She wants no prayers of mine. But I do here pour forth my humble supplications at the Throne of Mercy, that that mercy may be poured down upon the people, in a larger measure than the merits of its rulers may deserve, and that your hearts may be turned to justice.
Page 23 - Rousseau, Sir, is a very bad man. I would sooner sign a sentence for his transportation, than that of any felon who has gone from the Old Bailey these many years. Yes, I should like to have him work in the plantations." BOSWELL. "Sir, do you think him as bad a man as Voltaire?" JOHNSON. "Why, Sir, it is difficult to settle the proportion of iniquity between them.
Page 439 - You Enterprised a Railroad through the valley — you blasted its rocks away, heaped thousands of tons of shale into its lovely stream. The valley is gone, and the Gods with it; and now, every fool in Buxton can be at Bakewell in half an hour, and every fool in Bakewell at Buxton; which you think a lucrative process of exchange — you Fools Everywhere.
Page 409 - ... effort or hesitation. Nor was this promptitude and compass of knowledge confined in any degree to the studies connected with his ordinary pursuits. That he should have been minutely and extensively skilled in chemistry and the arts, and in most of the branches of physical science, might perhaps have been conjectured ; but it could not have been inferred from his usual occupations, and probably is not generally known, that he was curiously learned in many branches of antiquity, metaphysics, medicine,...
Page 432 - The day will come when some more powerful man will get fame and riches from my invention, but nobody will believe that poor John Fitch can do anything worthy of attention.
Page 247 - To expect, indeed, that the freedom of trade should ever be entirely restored in Great Britain, is as absurd as to expect that an Oceana or Utopia should ever be established in it.