Knowledge is PowerBell and Daldy, 1866 - 426 pages |
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... passed away . The spirit of knowledge has arisen . In remodelling that portion of the present volume it is unnecessary so fully to deprecate the evils of hostility to machinery ; but rather to look forward to its more complete union ...
... passed away . The spirit of knowledge has arisen . In remodelling that portion of the present volume it is unnecessary so fully to deprecate the evils of hostility to machinery ; but rather to look forward to its more complete union ...
Page 13
... passed into that condition naturally enough ; -imperfectly perhaps , but still as easily as any barbarous people who do not cultivate the earth , but exchange her spontaneous products . The poet goes on to make the solitary man say ...
... passed into that condition naturally enough ; -imperfectly perhaps , but still as easily as any barbarous people who do not cultivate the earth , but exchange her spontaneous products . The poet goes on to make the solitary man say ...
Page 47
... passed into the condition of a producer , he saw that his powers and rights were wholly limited and directed by the prin- ciples necessary to advance production ; and that his own share of what he assisted in producing must be measured ...
... passed into the condition of a producer , he saw that his powers and rights were wholly limited and directed by the prin- ciples necessary to advance production ; and that his own share of what he assisted in producing must be measured ...
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... passed to remedy excessive distresses ; from which it appeared that it was no unfrequent practice for the king's officers to take the opportunity of seizing the farmer's oxen at the moment when they were employed in ploughing , or , as ...
... passed to remedy excessive distresses ; from which it appeared that it was no unfrequent practice for the king's officers to take the opportunity of seizing the farmer's oxen at the moment when they were employed in ploughing , or , as ...
Page 65
... passed . These people went from place to place in great companies -spoke a cant language , which Harrison calls Pedler's French - and were subdivided into fifty - two different classes of thieves . The same race of people prevailed ...
... passed . These people went from place to place in great companies -spoke a cant language , which Harrison calls Pedler's French - and were subdivided into fifty - two different classes of thieves . The same race of people prevailed ...
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