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... labour . The inexhaustible variety , the strange beauty , and the won- drous complexity of natural objects , are pre - eminently adapted to excite both the observing and reflective powers of the mind , and their study is well calculated ...
... labour . The inexhaustible variety , the strange beauty , and the won- drous complexity of natural objects , are pre - eminently adapted to excite both the observing and reflective powers of the mind , and their study is well calculated ...
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... labour to cut and polish them without a lathe or any of the ap- pliances of the modern lapidary . These were probably used in a game called chungke , practised among some Indian tribes , and resem- bling a combination of bowls and spear ...
... labour to cut and polish them without a lathe or any of the ap- pliances of the modern lapidary . These were probably used in a game called chungke , practised among some Indian tribes , and resem- bling a combination of bowls and spear ...
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... labour . Again and again the statement is made in the public press , and by writers of some authority , that " white men cannot live and work in the tropics ; " and this dogma is made the foundation of theories as to our conduct toward ...
... labour . Again and again the statement is made in the public press , and by writers of some authority , that " white men cannot live and work in the tropics ; " and this dogma is made the foundation of theories as to our conduct toward ...
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... labour question is settling itself ; it is only a matter of time until the sugar industry can entirely do away with Kanaka labour . " This experiment in Queensland really settles the question . The fact is that white men can live and ...
... labour question is settling itself ; it is only a matter of time until the sugar industry can entirely do away with Kanaka labour . " This experiment in Queensland really settles the question . The fact is that white men can live and ...
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... labour , but gradually increasing them till , by stimulating an increased production in other countries , they may no longer be required . If other nations should see the wisdom and justice of following our example , each may in future ...
... labour , but gradually increasing them till , by stimulating an increased production in other countries , they may no longer be required . If other nations should see the wisdom and justice of following our example , each may in future ...
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Page 453 - The land shall not be sold for ever; for the land is mine, for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
Page 455 - His watchmen are blind : they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark ; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand : they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
Page 452 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth...
Page 454 - And again I say unto you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Page 368 - This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. 9 But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
Page 434 - They are clothed in velvet and warm in their furs and their ermines, while we are covered with rags. They have wine and spices and fair bread; and we oat-cake and straw, and water to drink. They have leisure and fine houses; we have pain and labour, the rain and the wind in the fields. And yet it is of us and of our toil that these men hold their state.
Page 322 - Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden ; give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.
Page 435 - Therefore I must say that, as I hope for mercy, I can have no other notion of all the other governments that I see or know, than that they are a conspiracy of the rich, who on pretence of managing the public only pursue their private ends, and devise all the ways and arts they can find out; first, that they may, without danger, preserve all that they have so ill acquired, and then that they may engage the poor to toil and labor for them at as low rates as possible, and oppress them as much as they...
Page 343 - has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other...
Page 342 - And as before so here, we see that, ethically considered, this law implies that each individual ought to receive the benefits and the evils of his own nature and consequent conduct : neither being prevented from having whatever good his actions normally bring to him, nor allowed to shoulder off on to other persons whatever ill is brought to him by his actions.