Brief Essays on Subjects of Social EconomySimpkin and Marshall, 1856 - 120 pages |
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Brief Essays on Subjects of Social Economy Thomas Lewin (Barrister-at-Law.) Affichage du livre entier - 1874 |
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Page 16 - The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks?
Page 1 - HE that goeth about to persuade a multitude, that they are not so well governed as they ought to be, shall never want attentive and favourable hearers ; because they know the manifold defects whereunto every kind of regiment is subject, but the secret lets and difficulties, which in public proceedings are innumerable and inevitable, they have not ordinarily the judgment to consider.
Page 4 - ... the smith also sitting by the anvil, and considering the iron work, the vapour of the fire wasteth his flesh, and he fighteth with the heat of the furnace: the noise of the hammer and the anvil is ever in his ears, and his eyes look still upon the pattern of the thing that he maketh; he setteth his mind to finish his work, and watcheth to polish it perfectly...
Page 1 - Whereas on the other side, if we maintain things that are established, we have not only to strive with a number of heavy prejudices deeply rooted in the hearts of men, who think that herein we serve the time, and speak in favour of the present state, because thereby we either hold or seek preferment ; but also to bear such exceptions as minds so averted beforehand usually take against that which they are loth should be poured into them.
Page 5 - ... he fashioneth the clay with his arm, and boweth down his strength before his feet; he applieth himself to lead it over; and he is diligent to make clean the furnace: All these trust to their hands: and every one is wise in his work.
Page 5 - Without these cannot a city be inhabited, and they shall not dwell where they will. Nor go up and down. They shall not be sought for in public counsel, nor sit high in the congregation ; they shall not sit on the judge's seat, nor understand the sentence of judgment; they cannot declare justice and judgment, and they shall not be found where parables arc spoken. But they will maintain the state of the world, and (all) their desire is in the work of their craft.
Page 77 - Towns where they be dwelling at the time of the proclamation of this statute; and if the people of Cities and other Towns will not or may not suffice to find them, that the said Beggars shall draw them to other Towns within the Hundred, Rape or Wapentake, or to the Towns where they were born, within forty days after the proclamation made, and there shall continually abide during their lives.
Page 4 - How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, And that glorieth in the goad, That driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, And whose talk is of bullocks ? He giveth his mind to make furrows; And is diligent to give the kine fodder.
Page 89 - ... is applied to purposes opposed to the letter and still more to the spirit of that law, and destructive to the morals of the most numerous class and to the welfare of all.
Page 2 - The stateliness of houses, the goodliness of trees, when we behold them, delighteth the eye : but that foundation which beareth up the one, that root which ministereth unto the other nourishment and life, is in the bosom of the earth concealed...