Observations on Some of the Chief Difficulties and Disadvantages of English Society, with Suggestions for Their RemedyHarvey and Darton, 1829 - 216 Seiten |
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... improvement of society , there surely needs some other remedy ; for it is generally considered that there is , and has for years been , an increasing pecuniary distress among the bulk of the nation , by no means confined to the working ...
... improvement of society , there surely needs some other remedy ; for it is generally considered that there is , and has for years been , an increasing pecuniary distress among the bulk of the nation , by no means confined to the working ...
Seite viii
... improvement ! How desirable , yet almost awful , is the situation of the main - spring of the Great British machine in the present day ! ' Tis true that if this oppor- tunity be now neglected , it may continue to present with still more ...
... improvement ! How desirable , yet almost awful , is the situation of the main - spring of the Great British machine in the present day ! ' Tis true that if this oppor- tunity be now neglected , it may continue to present with still more ...
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... improvement ; for whereas formerly a man could hardly propose amelioration of management , but prejudice rose on him at all points , now opposition is nearly confined to the few who profit by the evils ; and with the mass of society ...
... improvement ; for whereas formerly a man could hardly propose amelioration of management , but prejudice rose on him at all points , now opposition is nearly confined to the few who profit by the evils ; and with the mass of society ...
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... improvements by a steadily consistent conduct . Indeed , if all , individually , did their best , and exerted their influence in promoting sound principles , duly blended with practice , the next fifty years might prove more remarkable ...
... improvements by a steadily consistent conduct . Indeed , if all , individually , did their best , and exerted their influence in promoting sound principles , duly blended with practice , the next fifty years might prove more remarkable ...
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... improvements , render- ing both them and the various other circum- stances of man subservient to itself , and producing a ... improvement be considered as offering new principles , but only a more general application of the good old way ...
... improvements , render- ing both them and the various other circum- stances of man subservient to itself , and producing a ... improvement be considered as offering new principles , but only a more general application of the good old way ...
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Seite 149 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
Seite 218 - ... they are indescribably propitious, auspicious, and cheering. They presage the coming of that glorious future, when " all shall know the Lord, from the least to the greatest," and when " there shall be none to harm or destroy