Zwei Bücher zur socialen Geschichte Englands, Volumes 1-2

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Duncker & Humblot, 1881 - England - 775 pages

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Page 695 - Handel reserving to himself only the liberty of performing the same for his own benefit during his life: And whereas, the said benefaction cannot be secured to the sole use of your petitioners except by the authority of Parliament, your petitioners therefore humbly pray that leave may be given to bring in a bill for the purposes aforesaid.
Page 615 - ... factories, in proposing an application for Parliamentary aid (if other methods appear not likely to effect the purpose) to establish a general system of laws...
Page 614 - The large factories are generally injurious to the constitution of those employed in them, even where no particular diseases prevail, from the close confinement which is enjoined, from the debilitating effects of hot or impure air, and from the want of the active exercises which nature points out as essential in childhood and youth, to invigorate the system, and to fit our species for the employments and for the duties of manhood.
Page 537 - Aber immer wuchsen die Märkte, immer stieg der Bedarf. Auch die Manufaktur reichte nicht mehr aus. Da revolutionierte der Dampf und die Maschinerie die industrielle Produktion. An die Stelle der Manufaktur trat die moderne große Industrie, an die Stelle des industriellen Mittelstandes traten die industriellen Millionäre, die Chefs ganzer industrieller Armeen, die modernen Bourgeois.
Page 64 - A View of the Principles and Conduct of the Protestant Dissenters, with respect to the Civil and Ecclesiastical Constitution of England.
Page 614 - The untimely labour of the night, and the protracted labour of the day, with respect to children, not only tends to diminish future expectations as to the general sum of life and industry, by impairing the strength and destroying the vital stamina of the rising generation, but it too often gives encouragement to idleness, extravagance and profligacy in the parents, who, contrary to the order of nature, subsist by the oppression of their offspring.
Page 329 - CHILD is thy father dead? Father is gone! Why did they tax his bread? God's will be done! Mother has sold her bed: Better to die than wed! Where shall she lay her head? Home we have none! Father clammed * thrice a week — God's will be done!
Page 614 - It has already been stated that the objects of the present institution are to prevent the generation of diseases ; to obviate the spreading of them by contagion ; and to shorten the duration of those which exist, by affording the necessary aids and comforts to the sick. In the prosecution of this interesting undertaking, the board have had their attention particularly directed to the large...
Page 328 - Mother has sold her bed ; Better to die than wed ! Where shall she lay her head ? Home we have none ! Father clamm'd thrice a week, God's will be done ! Long for work did he seek, Work he found none.
Page 536 - Aus den Leibeigenen des Mittelalters gingen die Pfahlbürger der ersten Städte hervor; aus dieser Pfahlbürgerschaft entwickelten sich die ersten Elemente der Bourgeoisie. Die Entdeckung Amerikas, die Umschiffung Afrikas schufen der aufkommenden Bourgeoisie ein neues Terrain. Der ostindische und chinesische Markt, die Kolonisierung von Amerika, der Austausch mit den Kolonien, die Vermehrung der Tauschmittel und der Waren überhaupt...

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