 I suppose that there are in Great Britain upwards of an hundred thousand people employed in lead, tin, iron, copper, and coal mines ; these unhappy wretches scarce ever see the light of the sun ; they are buried in the bowels of the earth ; there they...  Fugitive Pieces, on Various Subjects - Page 67by Robert Dodsley - 1761Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1806 - 520 pages
...people employed in lead, tin, iron, copper, and coal mines ; these unhappy wretches scarce ever see the light of the sun ; they are buried in the bowels of the earth ; there they work at a severe and dismal task, without the least prospect of being delivered from it ; they subsist upon the... | |
 | 1833 - 480 pages
...people employed in lead, tin, iron, copper, and coal mines ; these unhappy wretches scarcely ever see the light of the sun ; they are buried in the bowels of the earth ; there they work at a s.-vcru and dismal task, without the least prospect of being delivered from it ; they subsist upon... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 744 pages
...people employed in lead, tin, iron, copper, and coal mines ; these unhappy wretches scarce ever see the light of the sun ; they are buried in the bowels of the earth ; there they work at a severe and dismal task, without the least prospect of being delivered from it ; they subsist «[»on... | |
 | Daniel Bishop - Christian sociology - 1835 - 748 pages
...people employed in lead, tin, iron, copper, and coal mines ; these unhappy wretches scarce ever see the light of the sun ; they are buried in the bowels of the earth ; there they work at a severe and dismal task, without the least prospect of being delivered from it; they subsist on the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 652 pages
...people employed in lead, tin, iron, copper, and coal mines ; these unhappy wretches scarce ever see ther and equallv striking examples. SECTION III. OBSCURITY. To make any thing very terri severe and dismal task, without the least prospect of being delivered from it ; they subsist upon the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1837 - 744 pages
...people employed in lead, tin, iron, copper, and coal mines ; these unhappy wretches scarce ever see under violent bodily pain, (I suppose severe and dismal task, without the least prospect of being delivered from it ; they subsist upon the... | |
 | John Taylor - Quotations - 1839 - 258 pages
...people employed in lead, tin, iron, copper, and coal mines; these unhappy wretches scarce ever see the light of the sun; they are buried in the bowels of the earth; there they work at a severe and dismal task, without the least prospect of being delivered from it; they subsist upon the... | |
 | Materials - 1846 - 478 pages
...lead, tin, iron, copper, and coal mines ; these unhappy wretches scarce ever see the light of the sun j they are buried in the bowels of the earth ; there they work at a severe and dismal task, without the least prospect of being delivered from it ; they subsist upon the... | |
 | Robert W. Russell - Communism - 1848 - 326 pages
...hundred thousand people employed in tin, lead, iron, copper, and coal mines: these scarcely ever see the light of the sun ; they are buried in the bowels of the earth ; there they work at a severe and dismal task, without the least prospect of being delivered from it. But this is nothing... | |
 | Robert W. Russell - Communism - 1848 - 326 pages
...in tin, lead, iron, copper, and coal mines: these scarcely ever see the light of the sun ; they arc buried in the bowels of the earth ; there they work at a severe and dismal task, without the least prospect of being delivered from it. But this is nothing... | |
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