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... workers had been rendered exceed- ingly critical since 1780 by the introduction of ma- chinery to do work before done by hand , a change which completely revolutionized the whole system of production other than agricultural . The old ...
... workers had been rendered exceed- ingly critical since 1780 by the introduction of ma- chinery to do work before done by hand , a change which completely revolutionized the whole system of production other than agricultural . The old ...
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... workers , and they were inevitably brought into sharp competition with one another for what places there were , with the result that wages were next to nothing , barely what would suffice to keep body and soul together . So the centers ...
... workers , and they were inevitably brought into sharp competition with one another for what places there were , with the result that wages were next to nothing , barely what would suffice to keep body and soul together . So the centers ...
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... workers , in extenuation it is well to remember that even long after , many , including so distinguished a writer as John Ruskin , took the ground that the way out of labor troubles was to discontinue the use of machinery and return to ...
... workers , in extenuation it is well to remember that even long after , many , including so distinguished a writer as John Ruskin , took the ground that the way out of labor troubles was to discontinue the use of machinery and return to ...
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... workers which takes all ambition out of them . The world therefore , thought Saint - Simon , can afford some curbing of the abnormal energy of the chiefs of industry if it can have an uplift and a quickening given to the spirit of its ...
... workers which takes all ambition out of them . The world therefore , thought Saint - Simon , can afford some curbing of the abnormal energy of the chiefs of industry if it can have an uplift and a quickening given to the spirit of its ...
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... workers ' province . In England particularly , where the cotton industry was making the greatest strides , the situation was most distressing . Sympathetic souls among the gentry were deeply moved and set in the way of grave reflection ...
... workers ' province . In England particularly , where the cotton industry was making the greatest strides , the situation was most distressing . Sympathetic souls among the gentry were deeply moved and set in the way of grave reflection ...
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Page 246 - The rich man also died, and was buried ; and in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. And he cried, and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame.
Page 265 - Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
Page 206 - ... is given : and they blow the souls out of one another ; and in place of sixty brisk useful Craftsmen, the world has sixty dead Carcasses, which it must bury, and anew shed tears for. " Had these men any quarrel ? Busy as the Devil is, not the smallest! They lived far enough apart; were the entirest strangers ; nay, in so wide a Universe, there was even unconsciously, by Commerce, some mutual helpfulness between them. How then? Simpleton! their Governors had fallen out ; and instead of shooting...
Page 205 - natural enemies' of the French, there are successively selected, during the French war, say thirty ablebodied men. Dumdrudge, at her own expense, has suckled and nursed them; she has, not without difficulty and sorrow, fed them up to manhood, and even trained them to crafts, so that one can weave, another build, another hammer, and the weakest can stand under thirty stone l avoirdupois.
Page 252 - The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully. And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits? And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease. Eat, drink, and be merry.
Page 205 - What, speaking in quite unofficial language, is the net purport and upshot of war ? To my own knowledge, for example, there dwell and toil, in the British village of Dumdrudge, usually some five hundred souls. From these, by certain 'Natural Enemies' of the French, there are successively selected, during the French war, say thirty able-bodied men; Dumdrudge, at her own expense, has suckled and nursed them : she has, not without difficulty and sorrow, fed them up to manhood, and even...
Page 245 - There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day : and there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, and desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table : moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
Page 272 - When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompense be made thee. 13 But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind; 14 And thou shalt be blessed : for they cannot recompense thee : for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.
Page 244 - The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Because he anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor : He hath sent me to proclaim release to the captives, And recovering of sight to the blind, To set at liberty them that are bruised, 19 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.
Page 248 - The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his Lord. It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his Lord...