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Page 20 - In all ways it needs, especially in these times, to be proclaimed aloud that for the idle man there is no place in this England of ours. He that will not work, and save according to his means, let him go...
Page 18 - Such at bottom seems to be the chief social principle, if principle it have, which the Poor-Law Amendment Act has the merit of courageously asserting, in opposition to many things.
Page 24 - A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that Fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
Page 33 - They, with protrusive upper lip, snort dubious ; signifying that Europe, Asia, Africa and America lie somewhat out of their beat; that what cartage may be wanted there is not too well known to them. They can find no cartage. They gallop distracted along highways, all fenced in to the right and to the left: finally, under pains of hunger, they take to leaping fences; eating foreign I property, and — we know the rest.
Page 98 - Who would suppose that Education were a thing which had to be advocated on the ground of local expediency, or indeed on any ground ? As if it stood not on the basis of an everlasting duty, as a prime necessity of man!
Page 75 - To this English People in World-History, there have been, shall I prophesy, Two grand tasks assigned ? Hugelooming through the dim tumult of the always incommensurable Present Time, outlines of two tasks disclose themselves : the grand Industrial task of conquering some half or more of this Terraqueous Planet for the use of man; then secondly, the grand Constitutional task of sharing, in some pacific endurable manner, the fruit of said conquest, and showing all people how it might be done.
Page 28 - Crowds of miserable Irish darken all our towns. The wild Milesian features, looking false ingenuity, restlessness, unreason, misery and mockery, salute you on all highways and byways. The English coachman, as he whirls past, lashes the Milesian with his whip, curses him with his tongue; the Milesian is holding out his hat to beg.
Page 47 - We say also that any given thing either is unjust or else just ; however obscure the arguings and strugglings on it be, the thing in itself there as it lies, infallibly enough, is the one or the other. To which let us add only this, the first, last article of faith, the alpha and omega of all faith among men, That nothing which is unjust can hope to continue in this world.
Page 25 - Sanspotatoe human scarecrow but had a life given him out of Heaven, with eternities depending on it ; for once and no second time. With immensities in him, over him, and round him ; with feelings which a Shakspeare's speech would not utter ; with desires illimitable as the Autocrat's of all the Russias...
Page 5 - Debates, or the Morning Papers, if you have nothing to do! The old grand question, whether A is to be in office or B, with the innumerable subsidiary questions growing out of that, courting paragraphs and suffrages for a blessed solution of that: Canada question, Irish Appropriation question, West India question, Queen's Bedchamber question; Game Laws, Usury Laws; African Blacks, Hill Coolies, Smithfield cattle, and Dog-carts, — all manner of questions and subjects, except simply this, the alpha...