Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century: Wellington, Canning, Stephenson, Russell, Cobden, Peel, Shaftesbury, Palmerston, Gladstone, Disraeli |
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... hours of labor were excessive , and where women and children were subjected to degrading tasks and brutal treatment . The Factory Law and kindred legislation since 1830 are the fruits of the beneficent and untiring labors of the Earl ...
... hours of labor were excessive , and where women and children were subjected to degrading tasks and brutal treatment . The Factory Law and kindred legislation since 1830 are the fruits of the beneficent and untiring labors of the Earl ...
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... Twelve thousand horsemen thundered up the gentle slope past the English guns , only to break against the bayonet - hedged squares of the infantry . At the end of eight hours ' fighting Wellington , and Struggle with Napoleon 41.
... Twelve thousand horsemen thundered up the gentle slope past the English guns , only to break against the bayonet - hedged squares of the infantry . At the end of eight hours ' fighting Wellington , and Struggle with Napoleon 41.
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... hours ' fighting the French center had advanced to within sixty yards of the British position , but the line still held , and Blücher's Prussians were rapidly coming up on the right flank . Marshal Grouchy having failed to prevent this ...
... hours ' fighting the French center had advanced to within sixty yards of the British position , but the line still held , and Blücher's Prussians were rapidly coming up on the right flank . Marshal Grouchy having failed to prevent this ...
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... hour of deliverance from the sword which had been the nightmare of the continent for a gener- ation Alexander proposed to his fellow potentates covenant binding them to be governed by the principles of Christian justice and charity in ...
... hour of deliverance from the sword which had been the nightmare of the continent for a gener- ation Alexander proposed to his fellow potentates covenant binding them to be governed by the principles of Christian justice and charity in ...
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... hour . ] In a bare room of a laborer's tenement in the colliery village of Wylam , in Northumberland , on the 9th day of June , 1781 , was born a babe to whose mind and hand England was to owe as much in future years as to any high ...
... hour . ] In a bare room of a laborer's tenement in the colliery village of Wylam , in Northumberland , on the 9th day of June , 1781 , was born a babe to whose mind and hand England was to owe as much in future years as to any high ...
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Page 198 - I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Page 129 - Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years? They are leaning their young heads against their mothers, And that cannot stop their tears. The young lambs are bleating in the meadows: The young birds are chirping in the nest; The young fawns are playing with the shadows; The young flowers are blowing toward the west — But the young, young children, O my brothers, They are weeping bitterly ! 10 They are weeping in the playtime of the others, In the country of the...
Page 227 - For all day the wheels are droning, turning; Their wind comes in our faces, Till our hearts turn, our heads with pulses burning, And the walls turn in their places: Turns the sky in the high window blank and reeling, Turns the long light that drops...
Page 226 - we are weary, And we cannot run or leap; If we cared for any meadows, it were merely To drop down in them and sleep. Our knees tremble sorely in the stooping, We fall upon our faces, trying to go; And, underneath our heavy eyelids drooping, The reddest flower would look as pale as snow. For, all day, we drag our burden tiring, Through the coal-dark, underground; Or, all day, we drive the wheels of iron 10 In the factories, round and round.
Page 225 - Why their tears are falling so ? The old man may weep for his to-morrow Which is lost in Long Ago. The old tree is leafless in the forest, The old year is ending in the frost, The old wound, if stricken, is the sorest, The old hope is hardest to be lost.
Page 190 - With banner and with music, with soldier and with priest, With a nation weeping, and breaking on my rest?" — Mighty Seaman, this is he Was great by land as thou by sea. Thine island loves thee well, thou famous man, The greatest sailor since our world began. Now, to the roll of muffled drums, To thee the greatest soldier comes; For this is he Was great by land as thou by sea.
Page 196 - Who in their coaches roll along the turnpikeRoad, what hard work 'tis crying all day ' Knives and Scissors to grind O!' "Tell me, Knife-grinder, how you came to grind knives? Did some rich man tyrannically use you ? Was it the squire ? or parson of the parish ? Or the attorney? "Was it the squire, for killing of his game ? or Covetous parson, for his tithes distraining ? Or roguish lawyer, made you lose your little All in a law-suit? "(Have you not read the Rights of Man, by Tom Paine?) Drops of...
Page 226 - We looked into the pit prepared to take her: Was no room for any work in the close clay; From the sleep wherein she lieth, none will wake her, Crying, 'Get up, little Alice! it is day.' If you listen by that grave, in sun and shower, With your ear down, little Alice never cries. Could we see her face, be sure we should not know her, For the smile has time for growing in her eyes; And merry go her moments, lulled and stilled in The shroud by the kirk-chime. It is good when it happens," say the children,...
Page 59 - I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old.
Page 194 - Uplifted high in heart and hope are we, Until we doubt not that for one so true There must be other nobler work to do Than when he fought at Waterloo; And Victor he must ever be, For tho' the Giant Ages heave the hill And break the shore, and evermore Make and break and work their will; Tho...