Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society, and the Results of Labour, Capital, and SkillGould and Lincoln, 1856 - 503 páginas |
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Página 20 - with indifference or contempt, as a visionary scheme. My friends, indeed, were civil, but they were shy, they listened with patience to my explanations, but with a settled cast of incredulity on their countenances. As I had occasion to pass daily to and from the building-yard, while my boat was in progress, I have often loitered, unknown, near
Página 119 - the strength and dexterity of his hands ; and to hinder him from employing this strength and dexterity in what manner he thinks proper, without injury to his neighbor, is a plain violation of this most sacred property.
Página 196 - Rarely, now, can the beautiful description of Cowper be realized : "Thump after thump resounds the constant flail That seems to swing uncertain, and yet falls Full on the destined ear." Few now wield that ancient instrument. Nor is the chaff now separated from the corn by .the action of the wind, which was called winnowing, but we have the
Página 251 - as much trouble, plague, and vexation, for the want of a latch which would not have cost threepence." M. Say's story is one of the many examples of the truth of the old proverb—" for want of a nail the shoe was lost, for want of a shoe the horse was lost, for want of a horse the man was lost." Nearly all the great variety of articles in
Página 119 - ADAM SMITH, in his great work, "The Wealth of Nations," says, " The property which every man has in his own labor, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable. The patrimony of a poor man lies
Página 438 - For the kingdom of heaven is as a man traveling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered to them his goods. And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one •, to every
Página 225 - and passing through the worst ways I ever saw in my life. We were thrown but once indeed in going, but our coach, which was the leading one, and his Highness's body-coach, would have suffered very much, if the nimble boors of Sussex had not frequently poised it, or supported it with their shoulders,
Página 229 - Laboring pioneers, A multitude with spades and axes armed, To lay hills plain, fell woods, or valleys fill, Or where plain was, raise hill, or overlay With bridges rivers proud, as with a yoke."—PARADISE REGAINED. What the Romans were to England, the
Página 155 - described this security as the best characteristic of the reign of Queen Elizabeth : "In her days every man shall eat in safety Under his own vine what he plants.
Página 153 - The gooseberry-trees that shot in long lank slips, Or currants, hanging from their leafless stems In scanty strings, had tempted to o'erleap The broken wall" Apply this principle upon a large scale. Let the productive energy of a country be suspended through some great cause which prevents its