The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volumen46A. Constable, 1827 |
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... persons engaged in that employment , broke into his house , and destroyed his machine ; and sometime after , when ... person of the name of Highs , or Hayes , a reed - maker in Bolton . But he has not produced a tittle of evidence ...
... persons engaged in that employment , broke into his house , and destroyed his machine ; and sometime after , when ... person of the name of Highs , or Hayes , a reed - maker in Bolton . But he has not produced a tittle of evidence ...
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... persons : on the contrary , he treated Highs with the most perfect indifference ; and not only dismissed Kay from his service , but even threatened to prosecute him on a charge of felony ! And can any one ima- gine for a moment that persons ...
... persons : on the contrary , he treated Highs with the most perfect indifference ; and not only dismissed Kay from his service , but even threatened to prosecute him on a charge of felony ! And can any one ima- gine for a moment that persons ...
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... persons employed in the spinning of cotton in Great Britain at 110,763 ; the aid they derived from steam - engines as equal to the power of 20,768 horses ; and the number of spindles in motion at 6,645,833 . Mr Kennedy farther estimated ...
... persons employed in the spinning of cotton in Great Britain at 110,763 ; the aid they derived from steam - engines as equal to the power of 20,768 horses ; and the number of spindles in motion at 6,645,833 . Mr Kennedy farther estimated ...
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... persons directly employed in the differ- ent departments of the manufacture . We should mistake , however , if we supposed that this num- ber , great as it certainly is , comprised the whole number of persons to whom the cotton ...
... persons directly employed in the differ- ent departments of the manufacture . We should mistake , however , if we supposed that this num- ber , great as it certainly is , comprised the whole number of persons to whom the cotton ...
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... persons , children , & c . dependent on those who are actually employed in the various departments of the cotton manufacture , and in the construction , repairs , & c . of the machinery and buildings required to carry it on - that it ...
... persons , children , & c . dependent on those who are actually employed in the various departments of the cotton manufacture , and in the construction , repairs , & c . of the machinery and buildings required to carry it on - that it ...
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Página 169 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the gospel, and the protestant reformed religion established by law ? And will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them? — King or queen. All this I promise to do.
Página 276 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in— glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
Página 187 - He has an intellect vehement, rugged, irresistible ; crushing in pieces the hardest problems; piercing into the most hidden combinations of things, and grasping the most distant: an imagination vague, sombre, splendid, or appalling; brooding over the abysses of Being; wandering through Infinitude, and summoning before us, in its dim religious light, shapes of brilliancy, solemnity, or terror: a fancy of exuberance literally unexampled...
Página 188 - True humour springs not more from the head than from the heart ; it is not contempt, its essence is love ; it issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
Página 17 - ENCYCLOPEDIA of AGRICULTURE: comprising the Laying-out, Improvement, and Management of Landed Property, and the Cultivation and Economy of the Productions of Agriculture. With 1,100 Woodcuts. 8vo.
Página 283 - Where popular discontents have been very prevalent; it may well be affirmed and supported, that there has been generally something found amiss in the constitution, or in the conduct of Government. The people have no interest in disorder. When they do wrong, it is their error, and not their crime. But with the governing part of the State, it is far otherwise. They certainly may act ill by design, as well as by mistake.
Página 180 - ... age, will not seem thrown away. Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany. The only thing connected with him,, we think, that has reached this country, is his saying, imported by Madame de Stael, and thankfully pocketed by most newspaper critics: — 'Providence has given to the ' French the empire of the land, to the English that of the ' sea, to the Germans that of — the air...
Página 284 - The virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons consists in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation. It was not instituted to be a control upon the people, as of late it has been taught, by a doctrine of the most pernicious tendency. It was designed as a control for the people.
Página 276 - A species of men to whom a state of order would become a sentence of obscurity, are nourished into a dangerous magnitude by the heat of intestine disturbances ; and it is no wonder that, by a sort of sinister piety, they cherish, in their turn, the disorders which are the parents of all their consequence.
Página 174 - Though I do not pretend to have the power of changing Mr. Pitt's opinion, when thus unfortunately fixed, yet I shall hope his sense of duty will prevent his retiring from his present situation to the end of my life; for I can with great truth assert that I shall, from public and private considerations, feel great regret if I shall ever find myself obliged at any time, from a sense of religious and political duty, to yield to his entreaties of retiring from his seat at the Board of Treasury.