Poverty and Riches: A Study of the Industrial Régime, Volumen 25John C. Winston Company, 1916 - 261 páginas |
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... turn , are composed of numerous individual cells . The hand is a unit ; each finger is a unit ; the nerves , capillaries , bones and hairs of the fingers are units , as are the cells of which they are all com- posed . English ...
... turn , are composed of numerous individual cells . The hand is a unit ; each finger is a unit ; the nerves , capillaries , bones and hairs of the fingers are units , as are the cells of which they are all com- posed . English ...
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... turns , and in relays , in filthy beds which were never cool , for one set of children were sent to sleep in them as soon as the others had gone off to their daily or nightly toil . There was often no dis- crimination of sexes ; and ...
... turns , and in relays , in filthy beds which were never cool , for one set of children were sent to sleep in them as soon as the others had gone off to their daily or nightly toil . There was often no dis- crimination of sexes ; and ...
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... turn , would be manufactured and sent out . England bought cheap and sold dear . She made a manu- facturer's and a trader's profit . The British nation was rapidly growing rich . Political economy , in those early days , measured ...
... turn , would be manufactured and sent out . England bought cheap and sold dear . She made a manu- facturer's and a trader's profit . The British nation was rapidly growing rich . Political economy , in those early days , measured ...
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... turns against his neighbor , clutches what he can get , and cries ' Mine ! ' and calls it peace because , in the cut- purse and cut - throat Scramble , no steel knives , but only a far cunninger sort can be employed ? ” Again and again ...
... turns against his neighbor , clutches what he can get , and cries ' Mine ! ' and calls it peace because , in the cut- purse and cut - throat Scramble , no steel knives , but only a far cunninger sort can be employed ? ” Again and again ...
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... turns from the lives of the owners and the exploiters to the lives of the workers . He enters the subject abruptly . " In the hardest - working part of Coketown ; in the innermost fortifications of that ugly citadel , where Nature 28 ...
... turns from the lives of the owners and the exploiters to the lives of the workers . He enters the subject abruptly . " In the hardest - working part of Coketown ; in the innermost fortifications of that ugly citadel , where Nature 28 ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 93 - DO not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you.
Página 220 - Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
Página 31 - There is no wealth but life — -life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings...
Página 43 - What art thou afraid of? Wherefore, like ' a coward, dost thou for ever pip and whimper, and ' go cowering and trembling? Despicable biped ! ' what is the sum-total of the worst that lies before ' thee ? Death ? Well, Death ; and say the pangs of ' Tophet too, and all that the Devil and Man may, ' will, or can do against thee ! Hast thou not a heart ;
Página 221 - Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked...
Página 30 - They are Man's," said the Spirit, looking down upon them. "And they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased. Deny it!
Página 205 - The driver was hunger, and permitted no lagging, though the pace was necessarily very slow. Despite the difficulty of drawing the coach at all along so hard a road, the top was covered with passengers who never got down, even at the steepest ascents. These seats on top were very breezy and comfortable. Well up out of the dust, their occupants could enjoy the scenery at their leisure, or critically discuss the merits of the straining team.
Página 184 - Now what does this Let Him Be Poor mean? It means let him be weak. Let him be ignorant. Let him become a nucleus of disease. Let him be a standing exhibition and example of ugliness and dirt. Let him have rickety children. Let him be cheap and let him drag his fellows down to his price by selling himself to do their work.
Página 126 - For if we will think of it, no time need have gone to ruin, could it have found a man great enough, a man wise and good enough: wisdom to discern truly what the time wanted, valor to lead it on the right road thither; these are the salvation of any time.
Página 16 - ... 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 and clothe properly, because they were so cheap and their places could be so easily supplied.