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... benefits of useful knowledge , active measures must be taken to ameliorate the general condition of the labouring classes : these measures will principally consist- I. In an investigation into the actual circumstances of all the poor ...
... benefits of useful knowledge , active measures must be taken to ameliorate the general condition of the labouring classes : these measures will principally consist- I. In an investigation into the actual circumstances of all the poor ...
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... benefit of the provision fund , or in works connected with the clothing fund . In aid of the fund for provision , the patrons are to hire a piece of ground , of one , two , or three acres , or more if it shall be judged necessary ...
... benefit of the provision fund , or in works connected with the clothing fund . In aid of the fund for provision , the patrons are to hire a piece of ground , of one , two , or three acres , or more if it shall be judged necessary ...
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... benefits are to be procured for our villagers are the following A village is to be fixed upon , situated as nearly as possible in the middle of a square , three miles each way , and including so many villages as to afford 252 boys and ...
... benefits are to be procured for our villagers are the following A village is to be fixed upon , situated as nearly as possible in the middle of a square , three miles each way , and including so many villages as to afford 252 boys and ...
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... benefits may , it is true , be conferred ; but , in Ireland , injustice is to be repaired . Ages of misgovernment and oppression have passed away ; but their consequences still exist , and may be traced in the character of the Irish ...
... benefits may , it is true , be conferred ; but , in Ireland , injustice is to be repaired . Ages of misgovernment and oppression have passed away ; but their consequences still exist , and may be traced in the character of the Irish ...
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... benefits were reserved for the English colonists within the pale ; and their cruel severities were directed against the Irish . The murder of a native was not con- sidered a felony . " Merus erat Hibernicus " was a sufficient answer to ...
... benefits were reserved for the English colonists within the pale ; and their cruel severities were directed against the Irish . The murder of a native was not con- sidered a felony . " Merus erat Hibernicus " was a sufficient answer to ...
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Popular passages
Page 54 - TO him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Page 54 - Yet a few days, and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his course, nor yet in the cold ground Where thy pale form was laid with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image.
Page 53 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Page 55 - The hills, Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun ; the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between ; The venerable woods, rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green ; and poured round all Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.
Page 54 - Shalt thou retire alone ; nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth— the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre.
Page 53 - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, The desert and illimitable air, Lone wandering, but not lost.
Page 279 - Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever; that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation is among possible events; that it may become probable by supernatural interference) The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.
Page 13 - That the laws made by them for the purposes aforesaid shall not be repugnant, but, as near as may be, agreeable to the laws of England, and shall be transmitted to the King in Council for approbation, as soon as may be after their passing; and if not disapproved within three years after presentation, to remain in force.
Page 53 - At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near.
Page 55 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings,— yet the dead are there...