 | Leisure - 1852 - 950 pages
...the same father and mother, of Adam and Eve, how can they say or prove that they are better than wo, if it be not that they make us gain for them by our toil what they spend in their pride T They are clothed Iu velvet, and warm in their furs and their ermines, while wo are covered with rags.... | |
 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1874 - 1076 pages
...it ? Why do they hold us in serfage? If we all came of the same father and mother, of Adam and Eve, how can they say or prove that they are better than...pride ? They are clothed in velvet, and warm in their firs and their ermines, while we are covered with rags. They have wine and spices and fair bread ;... | |
 | Mary Elsie Thalheimer - Great Britain - 1875 - 318 pages
...folk than we ? Why do they hold us in serfage ? They are clothed in velvet, and warm in their furs, while we are covered with rags. They have wine and spices and fair bread, and we oat-cake and straw, and water to drink. They have leisure and fine houses; we have pain and labor,... | |
 | Mary Elsie Thalheimer - Great Britain - 1875 - 297 pages
...we? Why do they hold us in serfage? They are clothed in velvet, and warm in their furs, while j^e^are covered with rags. They have wine and spices and fair bread, and we oat-cake and straw, and water to drink. They have leisure and fine houses ; we have pain and labor,... | |
 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1877 - 630 pages
...it ? Why do they hold us in serfage ? If we all came of the same father and mother, of Adam and Eve, how can they say or prove that they are better than...velvet and warm in their furs and their ermines, while wo are covered with rags. They have wine and spices and fair bread ; and we oat-cake and straw, and... | |
 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1877 - 920 pages
...it ? Why do they hold us in •rfijR? If we all came of the same father and mother, of Adam M ETC, how can they say or prove that they are better than we, i 'i be not that they make us gain for them by our toil what they •ec in their pride ? They are clothed... | |
 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1878 - 622 pages
...it ? Why do they hold us in serfage ? If we all came of the same father and mother, of Adam and Eve, how can they say or prove that they are better than...in velvet and warm in their furs and their ermines, Avhile we are covered with rags. They have wine and spices and fair bread ; and we oat-cake and straw,... | |
 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1879 - 638 pages
...father and mother, of Adam and Eve, how can they say or prove that they are better thau we, if it he not that they make us gain for them by our toil what...They have wine and spices and fair bread ; and we oat-cake and straw, and water to drink. They have leisure and fine houses ; we have pain and labour,... | |
 | Blackie and son, ltd - 1879 - 138 pages
...it? Why do they hold us in serfage? If we all came of the same father and mother, of Adam and Eve, how can they say or prove that they are better than...are clothed in velvet, and warm in their furs and ermines, while we are covered with rags. They have wines and spices and fair bread; and we oat-cake... | |
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By what right are they whom we call lords greater folk than we? On what grounds have they deserved it ? Why do they hold us in serfage? If we all came of the same father and mother, of Adam and Eve, how can they say or prove that they are better than... 
