Land, Labor and Liquor: A Chapter in the Political Economy of the Present DayS. R. Briggs, Toronto Willard tract depository, 1887 - 312 psl. |
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Populiarios ištraukos
22 psl. - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
280 psl. - The Angel of Death has been abroad throughout the land ; you may almost hear the beating of his wings.
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245 psl. - Reputation, reputation, reputation ! O ! I have lost my reputation. I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.
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245 psl. - God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!
245 psl. - I will ask him for my place again ; he shall tell me I am a drunkard ! Had I as many mouths as Hydra, such an answer would stop them all. To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast ! O strange ! Every inordinate cup is unblessed and the ingredient is a devil.
121 psl. - But it is to live miserable we know not why; to work sore and yet gain nothing ; to be heart-worn, weary, yet isolated, unrelated, girt in with a cold universal Laissez-faire...
309 psl. - To secure to the workers the full enjoyment of the wealth they create, sufficient leisure in which to develop their intellectual, moral and social faculties; all of the benefits, recreation and pleasures of association; in a word, to enable them to share in the gains and honors of advancing civilization.
23 psl. - Thus wealth, as alone the term can be used in political economy, consists of natural products that have been secured, moved, 'Combined, separated, or in other ways modified by human exertion, so as to fit them for the gratification of human desires.
Bibliografinė informacija
| Pavadinimas | Land, Labor and Liquor A Chapter in the Political Economy of the Present Day |
| Autorius | William Burgess |
| Leidėjas | S. R. Briggs, Toronto Willard tract depository, 1887 |
| Originalas iš | Mičigano universitetas |
| Pakeista skaitmenine forma | 26 liepos 2006 |
| Ilgis | 312 psl. |
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