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... course , generally known , that the first five years of life are the most fatal in all districts ; but the infant mortality of the cotton towns is nearly 20 per cent . greater than the average of the whole kingdom . In this difference ...
... course , generally known , that the first five years of life are the most fatal in all districts ; but the infant mortality of the cotton towns is nearly 20 per cent . greater than the average of the whole kingdom . In this difference ...
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... course , generally known , that the first five years of life are the most fatal in all districts ; but the infant mortality of the cotton towns is nearly 20 per cent . greater than the average of the whole kingdom . In this difference ...
... course , generally known , that the first five years of life are the most fatal in all districts ; but the infant mortality of the cotton towns is nearly 20 per cent . greater than the average of the whole kingdom . In this difference ...
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... course of life . Still , there is a certain consumption of opium among the grown - up population . The drug is used in both its raw and liquid states ; and women are the principal customers for it in the latter . In the case of children ...
... course of life . Still , there is a certain consumption of opium among the grown - up population . The drug is used in both its raw and liquid states ; and women are the principal customers for it in the latter . In the case of children ...
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... course . There is no sentimental grief wasted upon them . The father and mother expect that their children will go out into the world as they did themselves , and there is an end to it . In a moral point of view , there is much to be ...
... course . There is no sentimental grief wasted upon them . The father and mother expect that their children will go out into the world as they did themselves , and there is an end to it . In a moral point of view , there is much to be ...
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... course have more inclination and vigour for self - improvement after ten , than they had after twelve hours of mill - labour . Still , the fall in the wages made many grumblers . The result of Mr Horner the factory inspector's inquiries ...
... course have more inclination and vigour for self - improvement after ten , than they had after twelve hours of mill - labour . Still , the fall in the wages made many grumblers . The result of Mr Horner the factory inspector's inquiries ...
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Page 31 - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Page 30 - The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb ; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either — black it stood as Night, 670 Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart : what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 5 - The starry host, rode brightest, till the Moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.
Page 8 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty ! thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair : thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable ! who sitt'st above these Heavens To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works ; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 1 - Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day...
Page 28 - Whose midnight revels, by a forest side, Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course ; they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear ; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds.
Page 24 - OF Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning, how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos...
Page 9 - Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform ; and mix And nourish all things ; let your ceaseless change Vary to our great Maker still new praise. Ye mists and exhalations, that now rise From hill or steaming lake, dusky or gray, Till the sun paint your fleecy skirts with gold, In honour to the world's great Author rise...
Page 15 - Earth trembled from her entrails, as again In pangs, and nature gave a. second groan ; Sky loured ; and, muttering thunder, some sad drops Wept at completing of the mortal sin Original...
Page 5 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung...