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" Wherever this boasted machinery is established, the children of the poor are death-doomed from their cradles. Look for one moment at midnight into a cottonmill, amidst the smell of oil, the smoke of lamps, the rattling of wheels, the dizzy and complicated... "
The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 128
1875
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Headlong Hall

Thomas Love Peacock - Fiction - 1816 - 230 pages
...spinning-wheel : the children, if not more profitably employed than in gathering heath and sticks, at least laid in a stock of health and strength to...their cradles. Look for one moment at midnight into a cotton-mill, amidst the smell of oil—- the smoke of lamps — the rattling of wheels — the dizzy...
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Headlong Hall

Thomas Love Peacock - Fiction - 1816 - 228 pages
...her sphming-wheel: the children, if not more profitably employed than in gathering heath and sticks, at least laid in a stock of health and strength to...their cradles. Look for one moment at midnight into a cotton-mill, amidst the smell of oil— the smoke of lamps—the rattling of wheels— the dizzy and...
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Headlong Hall: And, Nightmare Abbey

Thomas Love Peacock - English fiction - 1845 - 378 pages
...spinning-wheel : the children, if not more profitably employed than in gathering heath and sticks, at least laid in a stock of health and strength to...their cradles. Look for one moment at midnight into a cotton-mill, amidst the smell of oil, the smoke of lamps, the rattling of wheels, the dizzy and complicated...
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Preface. Biographical notice. Headlong hall. Melincourt. Nightmare abby

Thomas Love Peacock - English literature - 1875 - 450 pages
...is the spinning-wheel now, and every simple and insulated occupation of the industrious cottager f Wherever this boasted machinery is established, the...their cradles. Look for one moment at midnight into a cotton-mill, amidst the smell of oil, the smoke of lamps, the rattling of wheels, the dizzy and complicated...
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Library of Universal Knowledge: A Reprint of the Last (1880 ..., Volume 9

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1881 - 892 pages
...spinning-wheel. The children, if not more profitably employed than in gathering health and sticks, at least laid in a stock of health and strength to sustain the labor of maturer years. Where is the spinning-wheel now. and every simple and insulated occupation...
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The International Cyclopedia: A Compendium of Human Knowledge, Volume 9

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 966 pages
...spinning-wheel. The children, if not more profitably employed than in gathering health and sticks, at least laid in a stock of health and strength to sustain the labor of maturer years. Where is the spinning-wheel now, and every simple and insulated occupation...
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Headlong Hall

Thomas Love Peacock - Fiction - 1891 - 188 pages
...her spinningwheel: the children, if not more profitably employed than in gathering heath and sticks, at least laid in a stock of health and strength to...their cradles. Look for one moment at midnight into a cottonmill, amidst the smell of oil, the smoke of lamps, the rattling of wheels, the dizzy and complicated...
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Headlong Hall and Nightmare Abbey

Thomas Love Peacock - 1896 - 278 pages
...her spinningwheel : the children, if not more profitably employed than in gathering heath and sticks, at least laid in a stock of health and strength to...their cradles. Look for one moment at midnight into a cotton-mill, amidst the smell of oil, the smoke of lamps, the rattling of wheels, the dizzy and complicated...
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Headlong Hall and Nightmare Abbey

Thomas Love Peacock - 1896 - 276 pages
...her spinningwheel : the children, if not more profitably employed than in gathering heath and sticks, at least laid in a stock of health and strength to...their cradles. Look for one moment at midnight into a cotton-mill, amidst the smell of oil, the smoke of lamps, the rattling of wheels, the dizzy and complicated...
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The International Cyclopedia: A Compendium of Human Knowledge, Rev ..., Volume 9

Harry Thurston Peck - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1898 - 1152 pages
...spinning-wheel. The children, if not more profitably employed than in gathering health and sticks, at least laid in a stock of health and strength to sustain the labor of rnaturer years. Where is the spiuning-whccl now, and every simple and insulated occupation...
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