The Edinburgh Tales, 3. köideChristian Isobel Johnstone W. Tait, 1846 - 379 pages |
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Page 178 - Labour was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased...
Page 78 - At morning and at evening both You merry were and glad, So little care of sleep and sloth, These pretty ladies had. When Tom came home from labour, Or Ciss to milking rose, Then merrily went their tabor, And nimbly went their toes.
Page 240 - Never : but bravely bearing on, thy will Is destined an eternal war to wage With tyranny and falsehood, and uproot The germs of misery from the human heart.
Page 240 - Before the naked soul has found its home, All tend to perfect happiness, and urge The restless wheels of being on their way, Whose flashing spokes, instinct with infinite life, Bicker and burn to gain their destined goal.
Page 180 - All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind. As soon, therefore, as they could find a method of consuming the whole value of their rents themselves, they had no disposition to share them with any other persons. For a pair of diamond buckles, perhaps, or for something as frivolous and useless, they exchanged the maintenance, or what...
Page 238 - O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united! For in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they digged down a wall. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce, and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.
Page 179 - They are founded upon the most absurd of all suppositions, the supposition that every successive generation of men have not an equal right to the earth, and to all that it possesses ; but that the property of the present generation should be restrained and regulated according to the fancy of those who died perhaps five hundred years ago.
Page 78 - Caput apri defero Reddens laudes Domino. The boar's head in hand bring I, With garlands gay and rosemary. I pray you, all sing merrily Qui estis in convivio.
Page 179 - ... part of Europe, in those countries particularly in which noble birth is a necessary qualification for the enjoyment either of civil or military honours. Entails are thought necessary for maintaining this exclusive privilege of the nobility to the great offices and honours of their country ; and that order having usurped one unjust advantage over the rest of their fellowcitizens, lest their poverty should render it ridiculous, it is thought reasonable that they should have another.
Page 178 - A man grows rich by employing a multitude of manufacturers : he grows poor, by maintaining a multitude of menial servants.