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Page 4 - My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea: and I will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there, and thou shalt receive them : and thou shalt accomplish my <iesire, in giving food for my household.
Page 21 - Conflicts of Capital and Labour Historically and Economically considered. Being a History and Review of the Trade Unions of Great Britain, showing their Origin, Progress, Constitution, and Objects, in their Political, Social, Economical, and Industrial Aspects.
Page 12 - MORNING POST.— Mr. Fawcett has condensed within a single volume of moderate size, a full outline of political economy, and by means of, the familiar exposition of the fundamental principles of the science has much facilitated its study. Essays and Lectures on Social and Political Subjects. By HENRY FAWCETT, MP, Professor of Political Economy in the University of Cambridge ; and MILLICENT GARRETT FAWCETT. Svo. Price los. 6d. CONTENTS This volume includes part of a course of lectures delivered by...
Page 16 - The author of this work writes for those who know nothing. Her aim throughout is to avoid all technicalities ; to give plain and practical directions, not only as to what ought to be done, but how to do it. "Many an unprotected female will bless the head which planned and the hand which compiled this admirable little manual. . . . This book was very much wanted, and it could not have been better done.
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Page 36 - BAD TIMES. An Essay on the present Depression of Trade, tracing it to its Sources in enormous Foreign Loans, excessive War Expenditure, the increase of Speculation and of Millionaires, and the Depopulation of the Rural Districts. With suggested Remedies.
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Page 40 - The writers have seen and felt as well as reflected that the individual member of society is above all things a character and a will, and that society as a whole is a structure in which .will and character "are the blocks with which we build.
Page 29 - Re-view, and have been read by everyone interested in labour questions. There are, however, in the present volume, chapters on the connection between hours and wages, on the eight-hour movement of 1833, and on the present proposals for legislation, which are new, and which are up to the high level of the rest of the author's work.