The Workingman's Guide and the Laborer's Friend and Advocate: The Great Social Question SolvedBacon & Company, Book and Job Printers, 1886 - 919 páginas " ... written expressly for the people, especially the workingmen, that is, the farmers, mechanics, laborers, and necessary traders and useful mental workers, and in open hostility to drones, and useless and wasteful, and idle and unnecessary aristocracy, that is living on the vitals of the people, and giving no good in return"--Page 5 |
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... hands of a few , and the people be serfs and slaves ; and they manage to get all the property that is made and do not work . An aristocrat is one in favor of government in the hands of a few , and those who are in favor of such ...
... hands of a few , and the people be serfs and slaves ; and they manage to get all the property that is made and do not work . An aristocrat is one in favor of government in the hands of a few , and those who are in favor of such ...
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... hand for most that he has done in the world ; the hand helped him out . But says the Smart Aleck , the monkeys have a hand and what can they do ? Man could do but little without the hand , all will ad- mit , but man has some other aids ...
... hand for most that he has done in the world ; the hand helped him out . But says the Smart Aleck , the monkeys have a hand and what can they do ? Man could do but little without the hand , all will ad- mit , but man has some other aids ...
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... hands of an expert . In Homer we read of the bow of Ulysses , and no one could bend his bow but himself . And we also read of an African who gave some deputies a bow that they could not spring . The Indians will send an arrow through a ...
... hands of an expert . In Homer we read of the bow of Ulysses , and no one could bend his bow but himself . And we also read of an African who gave some deputies a bow that they could not spring . The Indians will send an arrow through a ...
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... hands , as they cannot fool the people any longer . But the old fogies saw the boat move off , and , no doubt , they were sorry . He who condemns a thing when he knows nothing about it , is naturally opposed to progress ; that can ...
... hands , as they cannot fool the people any longer . But the old fogies saw the boat move off , and , no doubt , they were sorry . He who condemns a thing when he knows nothing about it , is naturally opposed to progress ; that can ...
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... hands . No trav- eler ventured in the country without making his will . The single bed of a poor family had sometimes been carried away and sold for taxes . The revenue was $ 7,000,000 , and yet under Charles II . , he was allow- ed to ...
... hands . No trav- eler ventured in the country without making his will . The single bed of a poor family had sometimes been carried away and sold for taxes . The revenue was $ 7,000,000 , and yet under Charles II . , he was allow- ed to ...
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Página 315 - No facts have been preserved to sustain an account, or even a conjecture, of the numbers that perished in this extraordinary mortality. " I only find, that during three months, five, and at length ten, thousand persons died each day at Constantinople ; that many cities of the east were left vacant, and in several districts of Italy the harvest and the vintage withered on the ground.
Página 147 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Página 534 - All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good. And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear,
Página 380 - Consider the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin: yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Página 279 - After this dreadful chastisement, Attila pursued his march; and, as he passed, the cities of Altinum, Concordia, and Padua, were reduced into heaps of stones and ashes. The inland towns, Vicenza, Verona, and Bergamo, were exposed to the rapacious cruelty of the Huns. Milan and Pavia submitted, without resistance, to the loss of their wealth; and applauded the unusual clemency, which preserved from the flames the public, as well as private, buildings; and spared the lives of the captive multitude.
Página 868 - Mark by what wretched steps their glory grows, From dirt and sea-weed as proud Venice rose ; In each how guilt and greatness equal ran, And all that rais'd the hero, sunk the man...
Página 163 - After having spent a whole night in carousing, a second entertainment was proposed to him. He met accordingly, and there were twenty guests at table. He drank to the health of every person in company, and then pledged them severally. After this, calling for...
Página 288 - For the benefit of his Latin readers, his genius submitted to teach the first elements of the arts and sciences of Greece. The geometry of Euclid, the music of Pythagoras, the arithmetic of Nicomachus, the mechanics of Archimedes, the astronomy of Ptolemy, the theology of Plato, and the logic of Aristotle, with the commentary of Porphyry, were translated and illustrated by the indefatigable pen of the Roman Senator.
Página 739 - Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again; The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes in pain, And dies among his worshippers.
Página 769 - That railroads, though constructed by private corporations and owned by them, are public highways, has been the doctrine of nearly all the courts ever since such conveniences for passage and transportation have had any existence. Very early the question arose whether a State's right of eminent domain could be exercised by a private corporation created for the purpose of constructing a railroad. Clearly it could not, unless taking land for such a purpose by such an agency is taking land for public...