EqualityD. Appleton and Company, 1898 - 412 páginas |
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... mass of masonry covered with ashes and charcoal . On opening it , a vault , luxuriously fitted up in the style of a nineteenth - century bedchamber , was found , and on the bed the body of a young man looking as if he had just lain down ...
... mass of masonry covered with ashes and charcoal . On opening it , a vault , luxuriously fitted up in the style of a nineteenth - century bedchamber , was found , and on the bed the body of a young man looking as if he had just lain down ...
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... masses of the poor , the real nation , they surely from the first would have listened as for their lives , for to them your story would have meant glad tidings of great joy . " " I do not wonder that you think so , " I answered , “ but ...
... masses of the poor , the real nation , they surely from the first would have listened as for their lives , for to them your story would have meant glad tidings of great joy . " " I do not wonder that you think so , " I answered , “ but ...
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... masses he would raise than in the active resistance of the few , whose superiority was threatened . And indeed , Edith , to be fair to my own class , I am bound to say that with the best of the rich it was often as much this same ...
... masses he would raise than in the active resistance of the few , whose superiority was threatened . And indeed , Edith , to be fair to my own class , I am bound to say that with the best of the rich it was often as much this same ...
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... masses of the poor - why did they not without a moment's delay put an end to the inequalities from which they suf- fered ? " " Very likely , " she added , as I did not at once reply , " I am only showing how stupid I am by saying this ...
... masses of the poor - why did they not without a moment's delay put an end to the inequalities from which they suf- fered ? " " Very likely , " she added , as I did not at once reply , " I am only showing how stupid I am by saying this ...
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... masses ? " " There was no assurance that they would be more faith- ful . Their very poverty would make them the more liable to money temptation ; and the poor , you must remember , although so much more pitiable , were not morally any ...
... masses ? " " There was no assurance that they would be more faith- ful . Their very poverty would make them the more liable to money temptation ; and the poor , you must remember , although so much more pitiable , were not morally any ...
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Página 273 - For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be ; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the nations...
Página 252 - Heaven lies about us in our infancy ! Shades of the prison house begin to close Upon the growing Boy...
Página 16 - ... whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
Página 268 - No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another God dwelleth in us, and His love is perfected in us.
Página 112 - Shed thou no blood, nor cut thou less nor more But just a pound of flesh : if thou cut'st more Or less than a just pound, be it but so much As makes it light or heavy in the substance, Or the division of the twentieth part Of one poor scruple, nay, if the scale do turn But in the estimation of a hair, Thou diest and all thy goods are confiscate.
Página 268 - He who loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how shall he love God whom he hath not seen ? You, Mr.
Página 17 - ... basis for it ? What is liberty ? How can men be free who must ask the right to labor and to live from their fellow-men and seek their bread from the hands of others ? How else can any government guarantee liberty to men save by providing them a means of labor and of life coupled with independence ; and how could that be done unless the government conducted the economic system upon which employment and maintenance depend...