A Plea for the English Operatives ...Simpkin & Company, 1850 - 123 oldal |
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ABEL HEYWOOD allowed amongst aristocracy arrangements attention become believe brethren calculated Catherine Wheel cause charitable institutions Christ Christianity church circumstances conduct congregation considered constitute crime cultivation denominated duty effect elevation employed employers establishments evil expense favour feel give Gospel honour house of God human humble ignorant important improvement induced influence intelligent isters keep knowledge labour lamented land live look Lord lower orders Manchester masses means ment mental millions mind ministers ministers of religion ministry multitudes nation nature nonconformists once operative classes pauperism pecuniary persons philanthropy place of worship political poor popular pounds poverty present principles profess promote public opinion pulpit racter ragged schools Rehoboam religion religious render require respect rich Salford seek sentiment sinecurists social society soever square miles suitable suppose temperance temperance movement things thought tion toil total abstinence truth views wealth whole
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108. oldal - If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their lord, even unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah.
49. oldal - ... whom we have employed, (and in saying this, I express the experience of every manufacturer on the Continent to whom I have spoken, and especially of the English manufacturers, who make the loudest complaints.) These characteristics of depravity do not apply to the English workmen who have received an education, but attach to the others in the degree in which they are in want of it.
28. oldal - And they gave him audience unto this word, and then lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth : for it is not fit that he should live.
116. oldal - Down with the LAW that binds him thus! Unworthy freemen, let it find No refuge from the withering curse Of God and human kind! Open the prison's living tomb, And usher from its brooding gloom The victims of your savage code To the free sun and air of God ; No longer dare as crime to brand The chastening of the Almighty's hand.
108. oldal - Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David : if this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their lord, even unto Eehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go again to Eehoboam king of Judah.
78. oldal - ... than the saloons, and the costumes, and the show of the universe. He was made to tread all these beneath his feet. What an insult to humanity is the present deference to dress and upholstery, as if silkworms, and looms, and scissors, and needles, could produce something nobler than a man ! Every good man should protest against a caste founded on outward prosperity, because it exalts the outward above the inward, the material above the spiritual ; because it springs from and cherishes a contemptible...
48. oldal - As men of business or of general usefulness, and as men with whom an employer would best like to be surrounded, I should, however, decidedly prefer the Saxons and the Swiss, but more especially the Saxons, because they have had a very careful general education, which has extended their capacities beyond any special employment, and rendered them fit to take up, after a short preparation, any employment to which they may be called.
81. oldal - Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
48. oldal - Whilst in respect to the work to which they have been specially trained they are the most skilful, they are in conduct the most disorderly, debauched, and unruly, and least respectable and trustworthy of any nation whatsoever whom we have employed, (and in saying this, I express the experience of every manufacturer on the Continent to whom I have spoken, and especially of the English manufacturers, who make the loudest complaints.) These...