Past and Present: Chartism. New Ed., Complete in One Volume |
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Abbot Samson answer Aristocracy ascer become behold Ben Jonson blessed Bobus brother Bucanier Cant centuries Chaos CHAPTER Chartism Corn-Laws dark Dastards dead Dilettantism discern divine Dolittle Earth Edmund Edmundsbury Elmswell England English eternal everywhere eyes fact fighting French Revolution God's govern hast heart Heaven honour hope human hundred idle indispensable infinite Jocelin Jötuns Justice kind King labour Laissez-faire land Laws living Loculus look Lord Abbot Mammonism man's manner means millions Monks Nation Nature never noble Odin once Parliament Parliamentary Radicalism Phantasms Plugson poor Poor-Law practical present Quack question Reform religion Richard Arkwright Saxon shalt shew Shrine silent soul speak struggling thee thing thou art thou wilt thousand tion true truth Universe verily Vicar of Wakefield victory wages whatsoever whole wise withal Worker Workhouses worship
Popular passages
Page 122 - reverence done to this Revelation in the Flesh. We touch Hea• ven when we lay our hand on a human Body.' And the Body of one Dead ;—a temple where the Hero-soul once was and now is not : Oh, all mystery, all pity, all mute awe and wonder
Page 133 - Brief and yet endless ; Here eyes do regard you, In Eternity's stillness ; Here is all fulness, Ye brave, to reward you ; Work, and despair not." '* * Goethe. BOOK III, THE MODERN WORKER. CHAPTER I. PHENOMENA. BUT, it is said, our religion is gone ; we no longer believe in
Page 219 - dust, the very tears that wetted it now all dry,—do not these speak to thee, what ear hath not heard ? The deep Death-kingdoms, the Stars in their never-resting courses, all Space and all Time, proclaim it to thee in continual silent admonition. Thou too, if ever man should, shalt work while it is called Today. For the Night cometh, wherein no man can work.
Page 359 - mingham or out of it a machine of such value ? ' Good Heavens ! ' a white European Man, standing on his two legs, with his two ' five-fingered Hands at his shackle-bones, and miraculous Head ' on his shoulders, is worth something considerable, one would ' say !' The stupid black African man brings money in the / . market^
Page 352 - Who would suppose that Education were a thing which had to be advocated on the ground of local expediency, or indeed on any ground ? As if it stood not on the basis of everlasting duty, as a prime necessity of man. It is a thing that should need no advocating ; much as it
Page 289 - wrong condition therefore or the wrong disposition, of the Working Classes of England. It is a new name for a thing which has had many names, and which will yet have many. The matter of Chartism is weighty, deep rooted, far extending ; did not begin yesterday ; will by no means end this day or to-morrow. Reform Ministry, constabulary
Page 302 - Legislation presupposes the answer—to be in the affirmative. A large postulate; which should have been made a proposition of ; which should have been demonstrated, made indubitable to all persons ! A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that .Fortune's inequality exhibits under this
Page 159 - done Work. Whatsoever of morality and of intelligence ; what of patience, perseverance, faithfulness, of method, insight, ingenuity, energy ; in a word, whatsoever of Strength the man had in him will lie written in the Work he does. To work: why, it is to try himself against" Nature, and her everlasting unerring Laws ; these will tell
Page 362 - of the Altaic chain, in the central Platform of Asia ; in Spain, ' Greece, Turkey, Grim Tartary, the Curragh of Kildare ? One! ' man, in one year, as I have understood it, if you lend him earth,. \ ' will feed himself and nine others. Alas, where now are the
Page 146 - Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings ; we think, nothing doubting, that it absolves and liquidates all engagements of man. " My starving workers ?" answers the rich Mill-owner : " Did not I hire them fairly in the market ? Did I not pay them, to the last sixpence, the sum covenanted for ? What have I to