The Life of Robert Owen, 1. köideWilson, 1858 |
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Common terms and phrases
acquire acre adopted advantages agriculture amelioration Antinomians APPENDIX arrangements associations attained Bank of England beneficial benefit British British Empire character circumstances City of London classes colledge combined comfort Committee common conduct consequence cotton created cultivation desire distress Duke of Kent effects employed employment enable errors establishment evil existing expense experience feelings formed Gateshead give Gray's Inn habits happiness hitherto human nature ignorance improvement increase individual infants injurious interest JAMES STEWART knowledge Lanark land mankind manual labour manufactures means measures ment mental Mill mind misery moral nations necessary object Owen's plan parties pauperism persons placed plough poor population possess practice present principle produce profit proper proposed racter relief render Reporter ROBERT OWEN society soil spade standard of value sufficient superior tion trade trained truth villages Villages of Unity wealth Whigs whole
Popular passages
Page 131 - For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
Page 32 - And be it further enacted, that this act shall be deemed and taken to be a public act, and shall be judicially taken notice of as such by all judges, justices, and others, without being specially pleaded.
Page 132 - And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; "men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Page 23 - An Act for the Preservation of the Health and Morals of Apprentices and others employed in Cotton and other Mills and Cotton and other Factories...
Page 24 - Act, every such person or persons shall for every such offence forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding ten pounds nor less than five pounds.
Page 131 - Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; Love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up; Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, Is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
Page 279 - Villages of this extent, in the neighbourhood of others of a similar description, at due distances, will be found capable of combining within themselves all the advantages that city and country residences now afford, without any of the numerous inconveniences and evils which necessarily attach to both those modes of society. But a very erroneous opinion will be formed of the proposed arrangements and the social advantages which they will exhibit, if it should be imagined from what has been said that...
Page 32 - That it shall be lawful for the occupier of any mill, manufactory, or building, when time is so lost, then and in every such case and so often as the same shall happen...
Page 162 - Without them, they cannot be rich ; for if one had a hundred thousand acres of land, and as many pounds in money, and as many cattle, without a labourer, what would the rich man be, but a labourer...