The Industrial History of Modern EnglandK. Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1914 - 603 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
arbitration Arnold Toynbee average Bank Bill Board Britain British capital Census cent Chartist coal commerce common competition Corn Law cost cotton demand districts duties economic effect eighteenth century employers employment engine English established estimated exports fact factory farmers farming favour Feargus O'Connor foreign Francis Place Free Trade Government History House important improvement increase industrial Industrial Revolution inspectors invention Ireland iron J. S. Mill Lancashire land later less London Lord Lord John Russell Luddite machine machinery Malthus Manchester manufacture ment millions sterling mills movement organization parish Parliament pauper peace period persons Poor Law population poverty principle production railway reform relief repeal revolution rise Robert Owen rural Scotland social society Speenhamland steam strike textile thousand tion tons towns trade unions United Kingdom wages wealth weavers whole workers workhouse
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Página 214 - 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...
Página 142 - And while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country blooms — a garden and a grave ! Where, then, ah ! where shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride?
Página 60 - Are we aware of our obligations to a mob ! It is the mob that labour in your fields, and serve in your houses — that man your navy, and recruit your army — that have enabled you to defy all the world,— and can also defy you, when neglect and calamity have driven them to despair.
Página 213 - 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 In the factories, round and round.
Página 197 - But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists and calculators has succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
Página 253 - ... they shall recruit their exhausted strength with abundant and untaxed food, the sweeter because it is no longer leavened by a sense of injustice.
Página 69 - With scarcely any exception, the revenue drawn in the form of rent, from the ownership of the soil, has been at least doubled in every part of Great Britain since 1*790.
Página 234 - ... a remote observer they seem oblivious of their duty. Are they not there, by trade, mission, and express appointment of themselves and others, to speak for the good of the British Nation ? Whatsoever great British interest can the least speak for itself, for that beyond all they are called to speak. They are either speakers for that great dumb toiling class which cannot speak, or they are nothing that one can well specify.
Página 142 - Where then, ah! where, shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride? If to some common's fenceless limits...
Página 60 - When we are told that these men are leagued together not only for the destruction of their own comfort, but of their very means of subsistence, can we forget that it is the bitter policy, the destructive warfare of the last eighteen years, which has destroyed their comfort, your comfort, all men's comfort? that policy, which, originating with "great statesmen now no more," has survived the dead to become a curse on the living, unto the third and fourth generation!