Doctor Paleys̕ Follish Pigeons, and Short Sermons to Working-menCubery & Company, 1906 - 272 Seiten |
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Seite xvii - ... worst, pigeon of the flock; sitting round, and looking on all the winter, whilst this one was devouring, throwing about, and wasting it ; and if a pigeon more hardy or hungry than the rest, touched a grain of the hoard, all the others instantly flying upon it, and tearing it to pieces ; if you should see this, you would see nothing more than what is every day' practised and established among men.
Seite xvii - IF you should see a flock of pigeons in a field of corn ; and if (instead of each picking where and what it liked, taking just as much as it wanted, and no more) you should see ninety-nine of them gathering all they got, into a heap...
Seite viii - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Seite 93 - that all men are created equal, and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights — among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,' I shall strenuously contend for the immediate enfranchisement of our slave population.
Seite 161 - It is not enough that men should vote; it is not enough that they should be theoretically equal before the law. They must have liberty to avail themselves of the opportunities and means of life; they must stand on equal terms with reference to the bounty of nature. Either this, or Liberty withdraws her light! Either this, or darkness comes on, and the very forces that progress has evolved turn to powers that work destruction. This is the universal law.
Seite 197 - And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
Seite 237 - These communities, (the thirteen colonies,) by their representatives in old Independence Hall, said to the world of men, ' we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are born equal ; that they are endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights ; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Seite 146 - Thus wealth, as alone the term can be used in political economy, consists of natural products that have been secured, moved, 'Combined, separated, or in other ways modified by human exertion, so as to fit them for the gratification of human desires.
Seite 161 - These rights are denied when the equal right to land— on which and by which men alone can live— is denied. Equality of political rights will not compensate for the denial of the equal right to the bounty of nature. Political liberty, when the equal right to land is denied, becomes, as population increases and invention goes on, merely the liberty to compete for employment at starvation wages.
Seite 207 - ... and so to benefit the consumer at the expense of the workmen. To clear away this fallacy, it is only necessary to remember, that machinery itself must be made with hands ; that the capital of a country will not be diminished by the employment of machinery ; and that such capital must continue to be employed in paying wages, as of old. It is true that there is a shifting of the parties to whom the wages are paid.