Sybil; or The two nations, 第 1～3 巻Henry Colburn, 1845 |
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145 ページ - Two nations ; between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy ; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets ; who are formed by a different breeding, are fed by a different food, are ordered by different manners, and are not governed by the same laws.
188 ページ - Mr. Kremlin himself was distinguished for ignorance, for he had only one idea, — and that was wrong.
149 ページ - Hoaxem, particularly if you be " frank and explicit " ; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others. Good morning...
167 ページ - IN a commercial country like England, every half century develops some new and vast source of public wealth, which brings into national notice a new and powerful class. A couple of centuries ago, a Turkey merchant was the great creator of wealth ; the West India Planter followed him. In the middle of the last century appeared the Nabob. These characters in their zenith in turn merged in the land, and became English aristocrats...
30 ページ - If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage, and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking, the world would be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr.
40 ページ - He created a plebeian aristocracy and blended it with the patrician oligarchy. He made peers of second-rate squires and fat graziers. He caught them in the alleys of Lombard Street, and clutched them from the counting-houses of Cornhill.
71 ページ - I say, that those who labour can as little choose or change their masters now, as when they were born thralls. There are great bodies of the working classes of this country nearer the condition of brutes, than they have been at any time since the Conquest.
1 ページ - ... for which they open the air-doors of the galleries, and on keeping which doors constantly closed, except at this moment of passage, the safety of the mine and the lives of the persons employed in it entirely depend.
55 ページ - ... were equally narrow and if possible more dirty. At every fourth or fifth house, alleys seldom above a yard wide and streaming with filth, opened out of the street.
25 ページ - Marney may be sure of his seven shillings a week for at least nine months in the year ; and for the other three, they can go to the House, and a very proper place for them ; it is heated with hot air, and has every comfort. . . . The poor are well off, at least the agricultural poor, very well off indeed. Their incomes are certain, that is a great point, and they have no cares, no anxieties ; they always have a resource, they always have the House.