Sybil, or, The two nationsLongmans, Green, 1900 |
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Page 33 - 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.
Page 24 - ... utterly unfit for its original purpose of giving protection from the weather, looked more like the top of a dunghill than a cottage. Before the doors of these dwellings, and often surrounding them, ran open drains full of animal and vegetable refuse, decomposing into disease, or sometimes in their imperfect course...
Page 169 - 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!
Page 131 - WRIGGLE, a member for a metropolitan district, a disciple of Progress, who went with the times, but who took particular good care to ascertain their complexion; and whose movements if expedient could partake of a regressive character. As the Charter might...
Page 199 - Multitude ; as the power of the Crown has diminished, the privileges of the People have disappeared ; till at length the sceptre has become a pageant, and its subject has degenerated again into a serf.
Page 85 - See, too, these emerge from the bowels of the earth ! Infants of four and five years of age, many of them girls, pretty and still soft and timid ; entrusted with the fulfilment of responsible duties, and the nature of which entails on them the necessity of being the earliest to enter the mine and the latest to leave it.
Page 141 - I was told,' continued Egremont, ' that an impassable gulf divided the Rich from the Poor ; I was told that the Privileged and the People formed Two Nations...
Page 86 - They endure that punishment which philosophical philanthropy has invented for the direst criminals, and which those criminals deem more terrible than the death for which it is substituted. Hour after hour elapses, and all that reminds the infant Trappers of the world they have quitted and that which they have joined, is the passage of the coal-waggons for which they open the airdoors of the galleries, and on keeping which doors constantly closed, except at this moment of passage, the safety of the...
Page 97 - It is not that the people are immoral, for immorality implies some forethought; or ignorant, for ignorance is relative ; but they are animals; unconscious ; their minds a blank; and their worst actions only the impulse of a gross or savage instinct. There are many in this town who are ignorant of their very names ; very few who can spell them. It is rare that you meet with a young person who knows his own age ; rarer to find the boy who has seen a book, or the girl who has seen a flower. Ask them...
Page 97 - There is more serfdom in England now than at any time since the Conquest. I speak of what passes under my daily eyes when I say that those who labour can as little choose or change their masters •--now, as when they were born thralls.