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Past and Present - Page 3
by Thomas Carlyle - 1843 - 148 pages
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Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 520 pages
...workers some two millions, it is now counted, sit in Workhouses, Poor-law Prisons ; or have ' out-door relief flung over the wall to them, — the workhouse...filled to bursting, and the strong Poor-law broken asundu by a stronger.1 They sit there, these many months now ; tr.eir hope of deliverance as yet small....
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The Christian Teacher, Volume 5

England - 1843 - 508 pages
...workers, some two millions, it is now counted, sit in Workhouses, Poor-law Prisons ; or have ' out-door relief flung over the wall to them, — the workhouse...hundred thousand workers in England alone; their cunning right hand lamed, lying idle in their sorrowful bosoms ; their hopes, outlooks, share of this fair...
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The Monthly Review

Books - 1843 - 574 pages
...Poor-law prisons ; or have " out-door relief flung over the wall to them — the workhouse bastile being filled to bursting, and the strong Poor-law...thousand workers in England alone ; their cunning right hand lamed, lying idle in their sorrowful bosom ; their hopes, outlooks, share of this fair world,...
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The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, Volume 13

United States - 1843 - 678 pages
...workers some two millions it is now counted, sit in Workhouse?, Poor-law Prisons ; or have 'oul-door relief flung over the wall to them — the workhouse...a stronger. They sit there, these many months now ; Iheir hope of deliverance as yet small. In workhouses, pleasantly so named, because work cannot be...
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Thoughts on Thomas Carlyle: Or, A Commentary on the "Past and Present,"

R. B. E. - 1843 - 44 pages
...workhouses, poor-law prisons, or have out-door relief flung over the wall to them ; the workhouse bastile being filled to bursting, and the strong poor-law broken asunder by a stronger." (p. 2.) There is wealth — associated with privation : grandeur, yet co-existent with misery and despair...
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Past and Present: Chartism and Sartor Resartus

Thomas Carlyle - Great Britain - 1850 - 676 pages
...Prisons ; or have ' out-door relief ' flung over the wall to them, — the workhouse Bastille being a filled to bursting, and the strong Poor-law broken...deliverance as yet small. In workhouses, pleasantly BO named, because work cannot be done in them. Twelve hundred thousand workers in England alone : their...
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Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Volume 13

Thomas Carlyle - 1870 - 406 pages
...workers some two millions, it is now counted, sit in Workhouses, Poor-law Prisons ; or have 'out-door relief flung over the wall to them, — the workhouse...bursting, and the strong Poor-law broken asunder by a stronger.1 They sit there, these many months now ; their hope of deliverance as yet small. In workhouses,...
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Collected Works, Volume 13

Thomas Carlyle - 1870 - 408 pages
...workers some two millions. it is now counted, sit in Workhouses, Poor-law Prisons ; or have 'out-door relief flung over the wall to them, — the workhouse...bursting, and the strong Poor-law broken asunder by a stronger.1 They sit there, these many months now ; their hope of deliverance as yet small. In workhouses,...
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The Works of Orestes A. Brownson: Religion and society

Orestes Augustus Brownson - Literature - 1883 - 614 pages
...workers, some two millions, it is now counted, sit in Workhouses. Poor-law Prisons ; or have ' out-door relief flung over the wall to them— the workhouse...pleasantly so named, because work cannot be done in them. Twdve hundred thoumnd workers in England alone ; their cunning right-hand lamed, lying idle in their...
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The Works of Orestes A. Brownson: Religion and society

Orestes Augustus Brownson - Literature - 1883 - 612 pages
...workers, some two millions, it is now counted, sit in Workhouses, Poor-law Prisons ; or have ' out-door relief flung over the wall to them — the workhouse...bursting, and the strong Poor-law broken asunder by n stronger. They sit there, these many months now ; their hope of deliverance as yet small. In workhouses,...
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