Social notes, concerning social reforms, social requirements, social progress. Directing ed. S.C. HallSamuel Carter Hall |
Common terms and phrases
Albania Antony asked better Bill Board capital punishment Carlyle character Charity Organization Society Christian CLUB AND INSTITUTE committee Council coup d'état cried England English evil fact favour feeling friends girls Girtley give given Government Guardians Hallett hand INSTITUTE UNION interest INVENTION Ireland Jabez John Lister labour ladies lectures Linny London look Lord MARQUIS TOWNSHEND means meeting MEN'S CLUB ment Miss Carr moral never object once opinion paper persons Poor Law practice present public-house punishment question readers reform relief reply Rowford Rowle Salonica seemed SOCIAL NOTES street success thing THOMAS CARLYLE thought Timmiss tion Tonic Sol-fa Union Council Vict vivisection week woman women words workhouse write WYMAN & SONS young
Popular passages
Page 82 - And surely your blood of your lives will I require ; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man ; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed : for in the image of God made he man.
Page 115 - How long," they say, " how long, O cruel nation, Will you stand, to move the world on a child's heart, — Stifle down with a mailed heel its palpitation, And tread onward to your throne amid the mart ? Our blood splashes upward, O goldheaper, And your purple shows your path ! But the child's sob in the silence curses deeper Than the strong man in his wrath.
Page 84 - And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery, and when they had set her in the midst, they say unto him ; Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned ; but what sayest thou ? This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him.
Page 85 - She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee : go, and sin no more.
Page 226 - To make vicious and abandoned people happy, it has generally been supposed necessary, first, to make them virtuous. But why not reverse this order ? Why not make them first happy and then virtuous?
Page 16 - Ireland is the only kingdom I ever heard or read of, either in ancient or modern story, which was denied the liberty of exporting their native commodities and manufactures wherever they pleased, except to countries at war with their own prince or state : yet this privilege, by the superiority of mere power, is refused us in the most momentous parts of commerce...
Page 18 - IN THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL EMMIE I OUR doctor had call'd in another, I never had seen him before, But he sent a chill to my heart when I saw him come in at the door, Fresh from the surgery-schools of France and of other lands — Harsh red hair, big voice, big chest, big merciless hands ! Wonderful cures he had done, O, yes, but they said too of him He was happier using the knife than in trying to save the limb...
Page 50 - If therefore the father caress and commend them, when they do well; show a cold and neglectful countenance to them upon doing ill; and this accompanied by a like carriage of the mother, and all others that are about them ; it...
Page 219 - Munich ; that if he really stood in need of assistance (which would be immediately inquired into), the necessary assistance should certainly be given him ; but that begging was forbidden, and if he was detected in it again, he would be severely punished. I then delivered him over to an...
Page 84 - And they gave him audience unto this word, and then lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth : for it is not fit that he should live.