The Law and the PoorSmith, Elder & Company, 1914 - 315 páginas |
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Página 182 - I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid.
Página 282 - DO ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years ? They are leaning their young heads against their mothers, And that cannot stop their tears. The young lambs are bleating in the meadows, The young birds are chirping in the nest, The young fawns are playing with the shadows, The young flowers are blowing toward the west : But the young, young children, O my brothers, They are weeping bitterly ! They are weeping in the playtime of the others, In the country of the free.
Página 20 - My hopes are with the Dead ; anon My place with them will be, And I with them shall travel on Through all Futurity ; Yet leaving here a name, I trust, That will not perish in the dust.
Página 53 - that such jurisdiction shall only be exercised where it is proved to the satisfaction of the Court that the person making default either has or has had since the date of the order or judgment the means to pay...
Página ix - Two nations ; between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy ; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets ; who are formed by a different breeding, are fed by a different food, are ordered by different manners, and are not governed by the same laws.
Página 108 - Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong ; that useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work...
Página 285 - Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man which hath any suit or cause might come unto me, and I would do him justice!
Página 250 - Might and Right do differ frightfully from hour to hour; but give them centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical.
Página 36 - There, fenced by bulwarks of the law, She keeps the wondering world in awe ; And there, from vulgar sight retired, Like Eastern queens, is more admired.
Página 299 - Every age on him, who strays From its broad and beaten ways, Pours its sevenfold vial. Happy he whose inward ear Angel comfortings can hear, O'er the rabble's laughter ; And while Hatred's fagots burn, Glimpses through the smoke discern Of the good hereafter.