On Labour: Its Wrongful Claims and Rightful Dues, Its Actual Present and Possible FutureMacmillan, 1870 - 499 pages |
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... thing , is now almost a mark of imperfect breeding . Airs of imperturbable indifference are now the most approved wear of common sense . Nor , alas ! is it in externals only that fashion has altered for the worse . Commercial honesty ...
... thing , is now almost a mark of imperfect breeding . Airs of imperturbable indifference are now the most approved wear of common sense . Nor , alas ! is it in externals only that fashion has altered for the worse . Commercial honesty ...
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... things - products of tropical countries being specially mentioned - which at no very remote date were costly rarities , reserved for the exclusive use of the opulent , are now within everybody's reach . * So far Macaulay proceeds upon ...
... things - products of tropical countries being specially mentioned - which at no very remote date were costly rarities , reserved for the exclusive use of the opulent , are now within everybody's reach . * So far Macaulay proceeds upon ...
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... thing from the service , ' and touching their hats to the gentle- folk whom they pass on their way out - living , in a word , manifestly in the fear of God and the squire ; spending , too , all their evenings at home , and listening ...
... thing from the service , ' and touching their hats to the gentle- folk whom they pass on their way out - living , in a word , manifestly in the fear of God and the squire ; spending , too , all their evenings at home , and listening ...
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... things he desires . He has some taste for recreation and diversion ; and if he have none for anything but what is low and sordid , it is because the deadening influences to which he has been subjected have extin- guished the germs of ...
... things he desires . He has some taste for recreation and diversion ; and if he have none for anything but what is low and sordid , it is because the deadening influences to which he has been subjected have extin- guished the germs of ...
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... thing denied is leisure . But consider what an infinity is implied in that single want . What , without leisure and ... things His life is to him , epics - the one in He cannot , any primarily in their relations to himself ; his own ...
... thing denied is leisure . But consider what an infinity is implied in that single want . What , without leisure and ... things His life is to him , epics - the one in He cannot , any primarily in their relations to himself ; his own ...
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