The Story of Man's WorkMinton, Balch, 1925 - 245 pages |
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Page 164 - The patrimony of a poor man lies in the strength and dexterity of his hands; and to hinder him from employing this strength and dexterity in what manner he thinks proper without injury to his neighbour is a plain violation of this most sacred property.
Page 94 - ... that powerful princes of the world, that men brought up in honor and wealth, that nobles, men and women, have bent their proud and haughty necks to the harness of carts, and that, like beasts of burden, they have dragged to the abode of Christ these wagons, loaded with wines, grains, oil, stone, wood, and all that is necessary for the wants of life or for the construction of the church?
Page 94 - But if anyone is so far advanced in evil as to be unwilling to pardon an offender, or if he rejects the counsel of the priest who has piously advised him, his offering is instantly thrown from the wagon as impure, and he himself ignominiously and shamefully excluded from the society of the holy.
Page 97 - Him, from the depth of the heart, sobs and sighs with words of glory and praise! After the people, warned by the sound of trumpets and the sight of banners, have resumed their road, the march is made with such ease that no obstacle can retard it. ... When they have reached the church they arrange the wagons about it like a spiritual camp, and during the whole night they celebrate the watch by hymns and canticles.
Page 94 - Who has ever seen! — Who has ever heard tell, in times past, that powerful princes of the world, that men brought up in honour and in wealth, that nobles, men and women, have bent their proud and haughty necks to the harness of carts, and that, like beasts of burden, they have dragged to the abode of Christ these...
Page 60 - ... John Marshall used the case to embarrass Jefferson in 1807 and actually acquitted Burr of the treason charges on a very liberal reading of the treason law requiring two eyewitnesses to the same overt act. Burr attempted neither to assassinate Madison nor defraud the Bank of the United States. 29. (D) The Treaty of Ghent ending the War of 1812 was signed on December 24, 1815. Two weeks later, because news of the treaty had yet to arrive in America, the Battle of New Orleans was fought on January...
Page 202 - against the natural rights and contrary to the common law rights of the land," was finally removed from the statute book in 1814. Even the " Combination Acts," which had forbidden laborers to unite to settle wages and hours, were repealed in 1824. Similar changes took place in other fields than those of the relations between employers and employees. The leading characteristics...
Page 139 - American citizenship, the sacred declaration that before the law all men are equal and endowed with the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is a hollow mockery — mere sound without substance — a sham and a pretext.
Page 94 - Christ these waggons, loaded with wines, grains, oil, stone, wood, and all that is necessary for the wants of life, or for the construction of the church? But while they draw these burdens, there is one thing admirable to observe; it is that often when a thousand persons and more are attached to the chariots, — so great is the difficulty, — yet they march in such silence that not a murmur is heard, and truly if one did not see the thing with one's eyes, one might believe that among such a multitude...
Page 97 - ... better life! There one sees old people, young people, little children, calling on the Lord with a suppliant voice, and uttering to Him, from the depth of the heart, sobs and sighs with words of glory and praise! After the people, warned by the sound of trumpets and the sight of banners, have resumed their road, the march is made with such ease that no obstacle can retard it. When they have reached the church they arrange the wagons about it like a spiritual camp, and during...