The Edinburgh Review, Tom 74A. and C. Black, 1842 |
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... forces them to submit to these terms ; and the highly paid workman often wastes his extra wages in idleness and debauchery . And when employment is abundant ; that is , when his services are most wanted , he often tries to better ...
... forces them to submit to these terms ; and the highly paid workman often wastes his extra wages in idleness and debauchery . And when employment is abundant ; that is , when his services are most wanted , he often tries to better ...
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... force until the present century . A further attempt to reduce husbandry labourers to a hereditary caste of serfs , was made by the 7th Hen . IV . cap . 17 , ( 1405 , ) which , after reciting that the provisions of the former acts were ...
... force until the present century . A further attempt to reduce husbandry labourers to a hereditary caste of serfs , was made by the 7th Hen . IV . cap . 17 , ( 1405 , ) which , after reciting that the provisions of the former acts were ...
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... force until the present century . Sir Frederic Eden has collected regulations of wages by the Justices , from the 35th of Eliz . ( 1593 ) down to 1725. And the last which he gives , that regulating wages for the county of Lancaster in ...
... force until the present century . Sir Frederic Eden has collected regulations of wages by the Justices , from the 35th of Eliz . ( 1593 ) down to 1725. And the last which he gives , that regulating wages for the county of Lancaster in ...
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... following statements of the amount of the poor rates before its enactment , and during the period in which it remained in force . Report , p . 120 . We possess the following estimates and returns of the amount 12 Oct. Poor Law Reform .
... following statements of the amount of the poor rates before its enactment , and during the period in which it remained in force . Report , p . 120 . We possess the following estimates and returns of the amount 12 Oct. Poor Law Reform .
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... force ; and when we consider that the increase of expenditure during that time was from L.690,000 to L.1,912,000 , or nearly 200 per cent , it is clear that they will account for only a small part of it . 6 • Bishop Copleston has traced ...
... force ; and when we consider that the increase of expenditure during that time was from L.690,000 to L.1,912,000 , or nearly 200 per cent , it is clear that they will account for only a small part of it . 6 • Bishop Copleston has traced ...
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Strona 337 - ... only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose. Often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable, and inexplicable ; being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy, and windings of language.
Strona 337 - ... expression ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude; sometimes it is lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, in a quirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense: sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a mimical...
Strona 241 - Wales, conspicuous by his fine person and noble bearing. The gray old walls were hung with scarlet. The long galleries were crowded by an audience such as has rarely excited the fears or, the emulation of an orator.
Strona 233 - ... the black faces, the long beards, the yellow streaks of sect, the turbans and the flowing robes, the spears and the silver maces, the elephants with their canopies of state, the gorgeous palanquin of the prince, and the close litter of the noble lady, all these things were to him as the objects amidst which his own life had been passed, as the objects which lay on the road between Beaconsfield and St.
Strona 243 - North for the duties of a public prosecutor ; and his friends were left without the help of his excellent sense, his tact and his urbanity. But in spite of the absence of these two distinguished members of the Lower House, the box in which the managers stood contained an array of speakers such as perhaps had not appeared together since the great age of Athenian eloquence. There stood Fox and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes and the English Hyperides.
Strona 242 - There were seen, side by side, the greatest painter and the greatest scholar of the age. The spectacle had allured Reynolds from that easel which has preserved to us the thoughtful foreheads of so many writers and statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so many noble matrons. It had induced Parr to suspend his...
Strona 242 - ... court, indicated also habitual self-possession and self-respect, a high and intellectual forehead, a brow pensive, but not gloomy, a mouth of inflexible decision, a face pale and worn, but serene, on which was written, as legibly as under the picture in the council-chamber at Calcutta, Mens aqua in arduis; such was the aspect with which the great Proconsul presented himself to his judges.
Strona 244 - At length the orator concluded. Raising his voice till the old arches of Irish oak resounded — " Therefore," said he, " hath it with all confidence been ordered by the Commons of Great Britain, that I impeach Warren Hastings of high crimes and misdemeanors. I impeach him in the name of the Commons House of Parliament, whose trust he has betrayed.
Strona 245 - Sheridan, when he concluded, contrived, with a knowledge of • stage effect which his father might have envied, to sink back, as if exhausted, into the ' arms of Burke, who hugged him with the energy of generous admiration ? June was now far advanced.