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amongst amount annum Ashton Ashton-under-Lyne assessment average Barton-upon-Irwell Blackburn boards of guardians Burnley capital cent central executive Chorley classes clothing co-operative stores cost cottage cotton districts cotton famine cotton operatives cotton trade December decrease distress Ditto Ditto duty employed employers employment England expenditure exports extra factory Farnall five hundred four fund Fylde Garstang Glossop half hands Haslingden improvement increase India June labour Lancashire land Liverpool loans looms Lord Lord Derby loss machinery Maclure Manchester meeting ment million mills months Oldham ordinary out-door paid pauperism persons poor poor-law board poor-rates population pound Preston produce profits proportion recipients relief committees remitted rent Rochdale Salford shillings shopkeepers Sir Charles Wood society spinners spinning Stalybridge Stockport subscriptions supply thousand three hundred tickets tion Todmorden town township union various wages weavers week whilst whole Wigan woollen workmen yarn
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Page 110 - Who trusts the strength will with the burden grow, That God makes instruments to work his will, If but that will we can arrive to know, Nor tamper with the weights of good and ill. So he went forth to...
Page 109 - Lincoln's bier, You, who with mocking pencil wont to trace, Broad for the self-complacent British sneer, His length of shambling limb, his furrowed face, His gaunt, gnarled hands, his unkempt, bristling hair, His garb uncouth, his bearing ill at ease, His lack of all we prize as debonair, Of power or will to shine, of art to please.
Page 111 - The old world and the new, from sea to sea, Utter one voice of sympathy and shame ! Sore heart, so stopped when it at last beat high ; Sad life, cut short just as its triumph came. A deed accurst ! Strokes have been struck before By the assassin's hand, whereof men doubt If more of horror or disgrace they bore ; But thy foul crime, like Cain's, stands darkly out.
Page 186 - All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, 'Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?
Page 125 - AND am I born to die? To lay this body down ? And must my trembling spirit fly Into a world unknown — A land of deepest shade, Un pierced by human thought.
Page 110 - Beside this corpse, that bears for winding-sheet The Stars and Stripes he lived to rear anew, Between the mourners at his head and feet, Say, scurrile jester, is there room for you * Yes : he had lived to shame me from my sneer, To lame my pencil and confute my pen ; To make me own this hind of princes peer, This rail-splitter, a true-born king of men.
Page 110 - Nor tamper with the weights of good and ill. So he went forth to battle, on the side That he felt clear was Liberty's and Right's, As in his peasant boyhood he had plied His warfare with rude Nature's thwarting mights, — The uncleared forest, the unbroken soil. The...
Page 111 - The words of mercy were upon his lips, Forgiveness in his heart and on his pen, When this vile murderer brought swift eclipse To thoughts of peace on earth, good will to men.
Page 91 - The operatives are congregated into mills and workshops during twelve hours in the day, in an enervating heated atmosphere, which is frequently loaded with dust or the filaments of cotton, or impure from constant respiration, or from other causes. They are engaged in an employment which absorbs their attention, and unremittingly employs their physical energies.
Page 176 - There has been nothing like it in the history of the world for its suddenness, for the impossibility of dealing with it, or managing it in the way of an effective remedy.