An Empire of Information: Uniting Four Regions of Thought ...R.M. Van Arsdale, 1880 - 700 pages |
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... labor and capital has until recently been waged with its most remarkable persistence in France , the poor man being directed and advised by some of the most self- abnegating philanthropists in the history of the world , although their ...
... labor and capital has until recently been waged with its most remarkable persistence in France , the poor man being directed and advised by some of the most self- abnegating philanthropists in the history of the world , although their ...
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... labor , four to capital , and three to talent . The apartments in each edifice should be of various prices , and the styles of living vary in luxury and cost , but the poorest person in each edifice would not only be secure of comfort ...
... labor , four to capital , and three to talent . The apartments in each edifice should be of various prices , and the styles of living vary in luxury and cost , but the poorest person in each edifice would not only be secure of comfort ...
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... Labor , " at once attracted and secured their unqualified approval . Its author was one of the most accomplished of French writers , and the brilliancy and energy with which he attacked the I 15 THE SMALL FRENCH FARMS .
... Labor , " at once attracted and secured their unqualified approval . Its author was one of the most accomplished of French writers , and the brilliancy and energy with which he attacked the I 15 THE SMALL FRENCH FARMS .
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... Labor . " In business rivalry Louis Blanc beheld all vices , and the source of all evils . He urged its immediate suppression . More competition among manufacturers , or even merchants , excites each to produce and sell at a better bar ...
... Labor . " In business rivalry Louis Blanc beheld all vices , and the source of all evils . He urged its immediate suppression . More competition among manufacturers , or even merchants , excites each to produce and sell at a better bar ...
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... Labor Bureau in the Government , the prevailing ideas of the time naturally installed Louis Blanc . The satisfaction with which the governmental plum was regarded by the working classes was , of course , universal , and a spontaneous ...
... Labor Bureau in the Government , the prevailing ideas of the time naturally installed Louis Blanc . The satisfaction with which the governmental plum was regarded by the working classes was , of course , universal , and a spontaneous ...
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Page 377 - Love thyself last ; cherish those hearts that hate thee ; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not: Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's...
Page 407 - My very noble and approved good masters, — That I have ta'en away this old man's daughter, It is most true ; true, I have married her ; The very head and front of my offending Hath this extent, no more. Rude am I in my speech, And little bless'd with the set phrase of peace ; For since these arms of mine had seven years...
Page 442 - Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own : He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair or foul, or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not Heaven itself upon the past has power ; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
Page 392 - LAERTES' head. And these few precepts in thy memory Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatched, unfledged comrade.
Page 443 - In flower of youth and beauty's pride. Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave, None but the brave, None but the brave deserves the fair...
Page 492 - twas wild. But thou, O HOPE ! with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure? Still it whispered promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail...
Page 409 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands ; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed.
Page 619 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms — the day Battle's...
Page 393 - Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws To cast thee up again? what may this mean That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel Revisits thus the glimpses of the moon...
Page 652 - Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.