Lectures on the Industrial Revolution in England: Popular Addresses, Notes and Other FragmentsRivingtons, 1884 - 256 páginas |
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... means by which they were to be fulfilled , will recall to the mind of some the narrative of another movement which commenced in Oxford about fifty years ago , and , from a grain of mustard seed , has grown up to be a great tree . His ...
... means by which they were to be fulfilled , will recall to the mind of some the narrative of another movement which commenced in Oxford about fifty years ago , and , from a grain of mustard seed , has grown up to be a great tree . His ...
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... means at my disposal , and those which , without the expenditure of much time , I hope to be able to add to them , will be sufficient for my maintenance . I do not care to spend my life in acquiring material benefits which might have an ...
... means at my disposal , and those which , without the expenditure of much time , I hope to be able to add to them , will be sufficient for my maintenance . I do not care to spend my life in acquiring material benefits which might have an ...
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... mean nervous about heaven and hell , but about the purity of our thoughts , and the truth of our aims . From another letter : - Religion has revealed itself to me in clearer shapes than ever , and in daily words and deeds I feel its ...
... mean nervous about heaven and hell , but about the purity of our thoughts , and the truth of our aims . From another letter : - Religion has revealed itself to me in clearer shapes than ever , and in daily words and deeds I feel its ...
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... mean the ideal of gentle , equable , intel- lectual intercourse , with something of a prophetic glow about it , glancing brightly into the future , yet always embalming itself in the memory as a resting - place for the soul in a future ...
... mean the ideal of gentle , equable , intel- lectual intercourse , with something of a prophetic glow about it , glancing brightly into the future , yet always embalming itself in the memory as a resting - place for the soul in a future ...
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... mean that in the sad fate of this city I was impressed for the thousandth time with man's ignorance of the way of all things . He schemes and works , and the result is some undreamt - of thing which is linked to some other distant ...
... mean that in the sad fate of this city I was impressed for the thousandth time with man's ignorance of the way of all things . He schemes and works , and the result is some undreamt - of thing which is linked to some other distant ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Adam Smith agricultural America Arnold Toynbee Arthur Young artisans assertion Balliol College believe capital capitalist causes cent century Chartists Church classes co-operators common competition condition corn Corn-Laws cotton cultivation demand distribution of wealth districts economists effect employer enclosures England English existence fact factory farmers farms freedom freeholders growth hands human idea ideal importance improved increase individual industrial Industrial Revolution influence instance interest James Mill James Watt labour Lancashire land landowners living Malthus manufacturers masters mediæval merchants method Mill modern moral nature Northern Tour organisation pauperism Political Economy Poor Law population present principle produce profits progress question Radicals rate of wages recognise reform religion rent repeal revolution Ricardo rise Robert Owen social Socialists society spiritual theory things thought tion towns Toynbee trade Trades-Unions true union wage-fund wants Wealth of Nations whole wool woollen workmen
Pasajes populares
Página 15 - The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.
Página 75 - The directors of such companies, however, being the managers rather of other people's money than of their own, it cannot well be expected that they should watch over it with the same anxious vigilance with which the partners in a private copartnery frequently watch over their own.
Página 12 - By this wise provision," he says, " ie by making the passion of self-love beyond comparison stronger than the passion of benevolence, the more ignorant are led to pursue the general happiness, an end which they would have totally failed to attain if the moving principle of their conduct had been benevolence.
Página 185 - The masters, being fewer in number, can combine much more easily ; and the law, besides, authorizes, or at least does not prohibit, their combinations, while it prohibits those of the workmen. We have no acts of parliament against combining to lower the price of work, but many against combining to raise it.
Página 194 - We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named "fair competition" and so forth, it is a mutual hostility. We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings; we think, nothing doubting, that // absolves and liquidates all engagements of man. "My starving workers?
Página 106 - Throughout the whole of the present work I have so far differed in principle from the former, as to suppose the action of another check to population which does not come under the head either of vice or misery; and, in the latter part I have endeavoured to soften some of the harshest conclusions of the first Essay.
Página 98 - Sunday following, if need require, when the people are at the church at divine service, shall gently ask and demand of every man and woman what they of their charity will be contented to give weekly towards the relief of the poor...
Página 81 - To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers.
Página 90 - Passing to manufactures, we find here the all-prominent fact to be the substitution of the factory for the domestic system, the consequence of the mechanical discoveries of the time.
Página 115 - There is supposed to be, at any given instant, a sum of wealth, which is unconditionally devoted to the payment of wages of labour.