 ... understanding will improve no more than that of the horse which turns it. I know that it is said that the lower orders of the people have nothing to do with the cultivation of the understanding; though for my part I cannot see how they would be the...  Fleetwood: Or, The New Man of Feeling - Page 224by William Godwin - 1805 - 336 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Allene Gregory Allen - Comparative literature - 1915 - 360 pages
...they could not earn bread to their salt. But be it so! I know that the earth is the great Bridewell of the universe, where spirits descended from heaven are committed to drudgery and hard labour. Yet I should be glad that our children, up to a certain age were exempt; sufficient is... | |
 | Allene Gregory Allen - Comparative literature - 1915 - 366 pages
...forty, if it were possible that they should live so long, they could not earn bread to their salt. But be it so! I know that the earth is the great Bridewell of the universe, where spirits descended from heaven are committed to drudgery and hard labour.... | |
 | Peter H. Marshall - Biography & Autobiography - 1984 - 518 pages
...he is only too well aware of the power of capital and the evangelical religion which sanctions it: 'the earth is the great Bridewel of the universe,...descended from heaven, are committed to drudgery and hard labour'.75 ln many ways Fleetwood is an improvement in artistic terms on St. Leon. Godwin manages... | |
 | William Godwin - Fiction - 2000 - 550 pages
...part I cannot see how they would be the worse for that growth of practical intellect, which should enable them to plan and provide, each one for himself,...competence. But be it so! I know that the earth is the great Bridewell of the universe, where spirits descended from heaven are committed to drudgery and hard labour.1... | |
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