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... citizens ; but as facts and the statistics of crime prove that the untaught and
neglected classes mostly supply the offenders against laws and morality , the
reasons are irresistible why ignorance should be banished from our country .
... citizens ; but as facts and the statistics of crime prove that the untaught and
neglected classes mostly supply the offenders against laws and morality , the
reasons are irresistible why ignorance should be banished from our country .
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... and the gases of the atmosphere , is all that is needed to demonstrate the law
of gravitation — to dissect the desolation of an antediluvian world , and to supply
a physiology to destruction - trace the path of an undetected orb — to invent the ...
... and the gases of the atmosphere , is all that is needed to demonstrate the law
of gravitation — to dissect the desolation of an antediluvian world , and to supply
a physiology to destruction - trace the path of an undetected orb — to invent the ...
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Individually you may attain wealth and power ; but your own talents and industry
must be the means of your elevation above the average level of your class , the
monetary value of which will depend upon the supply of and demand for labour .
Individually you may attain wealth and power ; but your own talents and industry
must be the means of your elevation above the average level of your class , the
monetary value of which will depend upon the supply of and demand for labour .
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than that of weaving ; for the spinners could not supply the looms , which were all
worked by hand . In 1769 , & patent was taken out by Richard Arkwright , a native
of Preston , for the application of rollers for spinning . The following year ...
than that of weaving ; for the spinners could not supply the looms , which were all
worked by hand . In 1769 , & patent was taken out by Richard Arkwright , a native
of Preston , for the application of rollers for spinning . The following year ...
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... Bull to the backbone , that I assert that British scholars would be better adapted
to supply mental food for the intellectual stomachs of Britons , to produce a
literature more in accordance with our own institutions , our intellectual character
, our ...
... Bull to the backbone , that I assert that British scholars would be better adapted
to supply mental food for the intellectual stomachs of Britons , to produce a
literature more in accordance with our own institutions , our intellectual character
, our ...
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Page 310 - Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence.
Page 309 - BEFORE the starry threshold of Jove's court /My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live insphered In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth...
Page 238 - The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between men — between the feeble and the powerful, the great and the insignificant — is energy, invincible determination, a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory. That quality will do anything that can be done in this world, and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities, will make a two-legged creature a man without it.
Page 179 - I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the Milky Way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced; but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: A poet could not but...
Page 177 - For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass : 24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
Page 265 - Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, And mountains ; and of all that we behold From this green earth ; of all the mighty world Of eye and ear, both what they half create*, And what perceive...
Page 180 - Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth; Glad hearts, without reproach or blot, Who do thy work and know it not: Oh!
Page 309 - The star that bids the shepherd fold Now the top of heaven doth hold ; And the gilded car of day His glowing axle doth allay In the steep Atlantic stream : And the slope sun his upward beam Shoots against the dusky pole, Pacing toward the other goal Of his chamber in the east.
Page 21 - But time did beckon to the flowers, and they By noon most cunningly did steal away, And withered in my hand.
Page 70 - ... for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost...