The Life and Work of the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, K.G.Cassell & Company, 1886 - 527 pages |
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... Sir Robert Peel , Lord John Russell , and Sir James Graham - State of the Poor of London- Field Lane Ragged School - A Disreputable Locality and its Tradi tions - Co - operation of Charles Dickens - A Novel Practice in the Church - Pews ...
... Sir Robert Peel , Lord John Russell , and Sir James Graham - State of the Poor of London- Field Lane Ragged School - A Disreputable Locality and its Tradi tions - Co - operation of Charles Dickens - A Novel Practice in the Church - Pews ...
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... Lord John Russell , in a series of motions on the Temporalities of the Irish Church , defeated the Government by so large a majority that they resigned on the 8th April . Lord Melbourne then commenced his second Administra- tion , which ...
... Lord John Russell , in a series of motions on the Temporalities of the Irish Church , defeated the Government by so large a majority that they resigned on the 8th April . Lord Melbourne then commenced his second Administra- tion , which ...
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... Lord John Russell promised investigation . On June 23rd Mr. Charles Hindley moved for leave to bring in a Bill " to Amend the present Factory Acts . " The House was surprised , and Lord Ashley thought the time inopportune ; but said ...
... Lord John Russell promised investigation . On June 23rd Mr. Charles Hindley moved for leave to bring in a Bill " to Amend the present Factory Acts . " The House was surprised , and Lord Ashley thought the time inopportune ; but said ...
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... Lord John Russell for asserting that Lord Ashley " is under a delusion which he has created for himself , if he supposes that a great many children are suffering under the infliction of grievances . " It proceeded to show that Lord John ...
... Lord John Russell for asserting that Lord Ashley " is under a delusion which he has created for himself , if he supposes that a great many children are suffering under the infliction of grievances . " It proceeded to show that Lord John ...
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... Lord John Russell said re- stricted hours meant diminished wages and imminent starvation ; while Mr. Hume declared that the Factory movement was a mere party manœuvre . Several mem- bers spoke in support of the resolution , but it was ...
... Lord John Russell said re- stricted hours meant diminished wages and imminent starvation ; while Mr. Hume declared that the Factory movement was a mere party manœuvre . Several mem- bers spoke in support of the resolution , but it was ...
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Page 494 - I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; "Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke; turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the Lord my God.
Page 139 - For all day the wheels are droning, turning; Their wind comes in our faces, Till our hearts turn, our heads with pulses burning, And the walls turn in their places: Turns the sky in the high window, blank and reeling, Turns the long light that...
Page 171 - Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail, which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?
Page 184 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes ', nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
Page 275 - ... them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
Page 522 - This is the day which the LORD hath made ; Let us rejoice and be glad in it...
Page 380 - ... not an open enemy, that hath done me this dishonour : for then I could have borne it.
Page 85 - That this house will, early in the next session of parliament, take into its most serious consideration the state of the laws affecting his Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects in Great Britain and Ireland ; with a view to such a final -and conciliatory adjustment, "as may be conducive to the peace and strength of the united kingdom ; to the stability of the protestant establishment ; and to the general satisfaction and concord of all classes of his Majesty's subjects.
Page 512 - For GOD speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; then He openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction, that He may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.
Page 172 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.