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...companions to the concept of inflation. In a far more subtle, yet no less forceful manner, the Boss shares with the reader some views about taxation, slavery (both literal and wage slavery), trade unions, the origins of the German language, the nature of marriage, and probably most powerfully, death. It is a tall order for a relatively brief text, but Twain manages it all ...

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...ted you to walk here and be a donkey driver?” He replied: “The letter Yod waged war with two letters, Chaf and Samech, for me to come and join. The ... ...r Degrees?” And that is why the donkey driver replied that the letter Yod waged war against the letters Chaf and Samech, to join with them. The degr... ...d to connect Ohr Neshama (that was previously in you) to me. And here Yod wages war against Chaf and Samech. Malchut of the Upper Partzuf clothes in... ...ther is to the detriment of the ruler!” (Kohelet, 8:9). The burden of our slavery and the impure force’s rule over us (over holiness) harms only the... ...from its captivity. This Light has sufficient power to deliver Israel from slavery. Only after the attainment of this Light (Ohr Haya), and not a deg... ...mself. On the other hand, to give us a chance to break free from the blind slavery of egoism, the Creator must reveal Himself. This is so because a h...

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...” But, for all that, as they were perfectly independent, getting very high wages, and these wages in a mode of industry that was then taking vast stri... ...ful chasm, in the abyss that no eye could bridge, between the pollution of slavery,—the being a man, yet without right or lawful power belonging to a ... ... whispers of his ignominy, and the harps of all his sisters that wept over slavery yet joining in one choral gratulation to the regenerated slave. I a... ...the wing for Cambridge; and with the rest, or some of them, I continued to wage war for more than a year. And yet, for a word spoken with kindness, ho... ...nstructively, so as to satisfy a lawyer, or in a sense sufficient to win a wager, might be taken and received for having “seen London.” What could be ...

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...s, and pays a hundred crowns to a gardener, who costs me twelve hundred in wages, and sends me in a bill for two thousand francs every three months. I... ...heir value, for a woman so ignorant as to believe that she is paying ample wages with two hundred and fifty francs to Madame Gobain, a cook fit for a ... ...in its infancy. If the women of Paris had a little of the genius which the slavery of the harem brings out in Oriental women, they would lend a com- p...

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...tat. 40. Which I am now past forty, Custodian, and not one penny the worse that I can see; as amusable as ever; to be on board ship is reward enough ... ...er, from soon on, be released from the obligation to write. In five or six years this plan- tation—suppose it and us still to exist—should pretty well... ...and have now finished for press eight chapters, ninety-one pages, of this piece of jour- nalism. Four more chapters, say fifty pages, remain to be don... ...rming saunterer, and refreshes him on his re- 94 Robert Louis Stevenson turn with cream; two calves, a bull, and a cow; God knows how many ducks and ... ...pally to keep another ear on the in- terpreter; else there may be dreadful misconceptions. I rubbed all their ears, except two whom I particularly pra... ... give me a present, recapitu- lating each article as he gave it out, with some appropriate comment. He called me several times ‘their only friend,’ sa...

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...tter to offend him once than myself every day, for it would be a perpetual slavery. To what end do we avoid the servile attendance of courts, if we br... ...as are in immediate fear of a los- ing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in per- petual anguish, and lose all appetite and repose; whe... ... nobled their lives by their renown, take but an account, and I dare lay a wager thou wilt find more who have died before than after five-and-thirty y... ...lconer, who having earnestly fixed his eyes upon a kite in the air; laid a wager that he would bring her down with the sole power of his sight, and di... ... trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my eyes?” for the kings of Persia were at that t... ...eing expired, for want of means to transport them they again returned into slavery. Some also turned Christians, upon whose faith, as also that of the... ...sed my shoulders of a troublesome weight and freed myself from an image of slavery; as also that I find a ravishing kind of satisfaction in pleasing a... ...the sword has strength of arm: and what- ever nation of men there is, they wage war with swords.”— Lucan, viii. 384.] 385 Montaigne But of that weapo...

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...you and Sergey Ivanovitch don’t like people to try and get them out of their slavery,” said Nikolay Levin, exasperated by the objection. Konstantin Le... ... relax his efforts, and he would not have had the money to pay his laborers’ wages), while they were only struggling to be able to do their work easil... ... hear and take part in those rural conversations concerning crops, laborers’ wages, and so on, which, he was aware, are conventionally regarded as som... ...ld, and that butter is more profitable made from sour cream, and he asked for wages just as under the old system, and took not the slightest interest i... ...ok not the slightest interest in the fact that the money he received was not wages but an advance out of his future share in the profits. It is true th... ...sted that they might do without liveries,—that these liveries would cost the wages of two laborers for the summer, that is, would pay for about three ...

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...triding pack. 16 Scarce had they cast eyes upon her, When every heart was wagered on her, And half in dread, and half delight, They watched her lovel... ...his waistcoat you read both his head and his heart: There’s a whole week’s wages there figured in gold! Yes! when you turn round you may well give a s... ...e from church, And have called themselves sinners, hate chaps to beg. I’ll wager they’ll all of ‘em dine to-day! I was easy half a minute ago. If that... ...s T om like to marry his General’s daughter—or widow— I’ll swear! XXVII ‘I wager he knows how to strut, too! It’s all on the cards that the Queen Wil... ... a-wooing. She is steadfast as a star, And yet the maddest maiden: She can wage a gallant war, And give the peace of Eden. BY MORNING TWILIGHT Night, ... ...nds for hate, Than with this mask of freedom and gorgeousness Bespangle my slavery, mock my strange fate. Would, would, would, O my lover, he knew—dar... ... barren visions, aims at a glassy void. Who sprang for Liberty once, found slavery sweet; And T yranny, on alert subservience buoyed, Spurred a blood-... ...kness, making clutch Wild hands for aid at muscles within touch; Adding to slavery’s chain the stringent twist; Even when it brings close surety that ... ...leagues devour’ d, and then, Back to the Vacares again, After ten years of slavery just to breathe salt sea For of this savage race unbent, The ocean ...

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...otism, and the madness of Terror;—urged on by lucre, and the gold louis of wages? Nay, not lucre: for the gold watches, rings, money of the Massacred,... ...s sans-indispensables, who higgle afterwards for their twenty shillings of wages; and Sergent sticking an uncommonly fine agate on his finger (‘fully ... ...ccording to the People’s- Friend, may be some ‘six sous per pound, a day’s wages some fifteen;’ and grim winter here. How the Poor Man continues livin... ...nton, in brief space, does immensities of business; not neglecting his own wages and trade-profits, it is thought. Hassenfratz dilapidates at home; Du... ...olution - V olume Three xxii. 296.) Such is their recompense and amount of wages, at this date: on the principle of supply and demand! Smith Gamain, i... ...r, be the month named Brumaire year 2 of Liberty, or November year 1793 of Slavery, the Guillotine goes always, Guillotine va toujours. Enough, Philip... .... These Sons of the Republic, they rose, in mad wrath, to deliver her from Slavery and Cimmeria. And have they not done it? Through Maritime Alps, thr...

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...side by side, ‘speak more handsomely.’ Mr. Grewgious pulled off his hat to smooth his head, and, having smoothed it, nodded it contentedly, and put hi... ...and put his hat on again. ‘I will wager,’ said Jasper, smiling - his lips were still so white that he was conscious of it, and bit and moistened them ... ...still so white that he was conscious of it, and bit and moistened them while speaking: ‘I will wager that she hinted no wish to be released from Ned.’... ...shell) appeared upon the scene, and requested to have the sum of threepence instantly ‘chucked’ to him by Mr. Durdles, whom he had been vainly seeking... ...d that it is. Neither is it attempted to be denied – for why should it? – that the Arching leads to a mews. Mewses must exist. Respecting attendance; ... ...bley mopped, and, arranging cushions, stretchers, and the like, danced the tight-rope the whole length of the boat like a man to whom shoes were a sup...

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...retch thy reign, fair Peace! from shore to shore, Till conquest cease, and slavery be no more; Till the freed Indians in their native groves Reap thei... ... Listening Envy drops her snakes; Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions hear away their rage. 3 But when our country’s c... ...nswer’d—I was not in debt. If want provoked, or madness made them print, I waged no war with Bedlam or the Mint. Did some more sober critic come abroa...

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... loved, and the love offered me I shall accept. My married life will be no slavery, but rather a perpetual reign. What is there to say against such a ... ...lty and good faith, I have not neglected to cultivate self-interest; their wages are small, but will receive an annual addition in the shape of a New ...

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...d the T emplar, “be weighed in the balance and found wanting, you know our wager?” “My gold collar,” answered the Prior, “against ten buts of Chian wi... ...nded, as I am, would yet gage my honour for the honour of Ivanhoe. But the wager of battle is complete, even according to the fantas- tic fashions of ... ...or a wordy and insolent braggart.” “And how if I refuse to shoot on such a wager?” said the yeoman.—“Y our Grace’s power, supported, as it is, by so m... ...e do pro- nounce to you, that we hold ye as robbers and traitors, and will wager our bodies against ye in battle, siege, or otherwise, and do our utmo... ...s bosom, his head bowed on his breast, in all the submis- sion of Oriental slavery. “Damian,” said the Grand Master, “retire, and have a guard ready t... ...rong hand, than to accept of them benevolent gifts, or do them service for wages. Go thou, and do as I have said.” “ Alack,” said the peasant, “an it ...

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... mystery to eradicate death from the earth. Every single aspect of human life that could cause death is firmly proven when the Bible teaches that the wages of sin is death. This simple Biblical truth makes all scientific claims of the origin of life, completely false and baseless. Using scientific claims to attack and refute Biblical truth is like a group of kindergarten k...

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... Jacob and Israel 93 The Manifestation of the Cross 98 The Manifestation of the Sinful Trinity 104 Laban, Sin, and Jacob 110 The Manifestation of Slavery 112 Chapter 5: Supernatural Identity 123 The Identity of Jesus Christ 123 The Call of Moses 132 The New Egypt 134 Congratulations! 139 My Dream 139 About the Author 140 Other Books by Felix Wantang 141 Valu...

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... of Tacuba -- Mexican treasure sunk in the lake -- The Mexicans are reduced to slavery -- Work of rebuilding the capital -- Magnificence of Cortez's p... ...e of Indians -- Applying live coals to the feet of a Mexican King -- Origin of slavery on the Caribbean islands -- Kidnapping natives -- Cattle raisin... ...men and Moors in about 412 A.D. when Rome capitulated. The Romans continued to wage war against the invaders, however, until 474 when the Empire passe... ...hed and sowed with salt, while the last three hundred survivors were sold into slavery. Carthage in her glory had sent her ships not only to every por... ... primitive conditions, and a badge of servitude to harsh advantages. It is the slavery of mind to the unconsciousness of surroundings, and as we have ... ...g ashes of the sacked capital of Zebu. Hostilities having now begun, they were waged for a considerable time between the islanders and the invaders wi... ...ressed in a proverb quoted to them by one of their number, "Old Nick pays poor wages on a small contract." A few at a time, as they were taken off by ... ...th Sound waiting for a favorable wind, the ship's company was paid two months' wages in advance and were told to expect no additional pay for their se... ...warriors had only a short while before come over from a neighboring island and waged successful war on the native New Zealanders, whom they had dispos...

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...me, and they were called by the London bill stickers ‘ T ramp ers,’ their wages at the time being ten shillings per day, be sides expenses. They use... ...ur sheet bills, two bill stickers would work together. They had no settled wages per week, but had a fixed price for their work, and the Lon don bill... ...bolish punishment by fine—a barbarous device, quite as much out of date as wager by battle, but particularly connected in the vulgar mind with this cl... ...ate Market, Newport Market, Clare, Carnaby—I don’t know where all. But the wages was—ha, ha, ha!—was not sufficient, and I never could suit myself, do... ...ft these gloves behind him! Another gentle man and me, you see, we laid a wager of a sovereign, that I wouldn’t find out who they belonged to. I’ve s... ...e slaughtering and sale of meat, is matter of strict police regu lation. (Slavery again, though we certainly have a general sort of Police Act here.)... ...cow skin, horse skin, and bear skin: towers a cocked hat and a blue cloak. Slavery! For our Police wear great coats and glazed hats. But now the bart...

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...s not the evil: it is 66 Thomas Carlyle the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is. Let a man assert withal that he is king over his h... ...hat he should be raised to Heaven! He that had known only misery, and mean slavery: the news was too blessed to be credible. It could not become clear... ...isted, came to ex- tremity; was struck at, struck again, and so it came to wager of battle between them! This is worth attending to in Luther’s histor... ...adopted it, and it has grown, and grows. I say sometimes, that all goes by wager-of-battle in this world; that strength, well understood, is the measu... ...ed, universally visible power. That one man wear the clothes, and take the wages, of a function which is done by quite another: there can be no profit... ... of the world’s work; dex- terous Similitude of Acting begins. The world’s wages are pocketed, the world’s work is not done. Heroes have gone out; Qua... ...dies to escape disgrace and a jail. This month he is a ruined peasant, his wages seven pounds a year, and these gone from him: next month he is in the...

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...ren, and let us not stain our honor.’ Sore was the battle, as sore as that waged by the 800 at Thermopylae, and the end was the same. Judas and his 80... ...nd they brought word that the unfortunate youth had indeed been reduced to slavery, and was made to keep his master’s herds of horses. Upon this the u... ...old woman who had waited on them came to the Lady of Kottenner to have her wages paid, and be dismissed to Buda. While she was waiting, she began to r... ...t against the temptation to renounce his faith in order to avoid a life of slavery, but had become a renegade, and had the charge of one of the farms ...

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...God; prejudices and false usages, that laid waste human happiness (such as slavery, and many hundreds of other abuses that might be mentioned), the ru... ...might safely allow the reader three years for guessing, if the greatest of wagers were depending between us. He likens him to Kotzebue, in the first p... ...turned off when the job was out of hand; and never once had to ‘strike for wages.’ How much beer was allowed, I cannot say. This is the truth of the m... ... thirty years ago presented as shocking cases as any coun- try, even where slavery is tolerated. An eye-witness to the fact, who has since published i...

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...absolutely like thunder’? It is the rush of the whole Court, rushing as in wager, to salute the new Sovereigns: Hail to your Majesties! The Dauphin an... ...ble tendency to persevere as in the Past, must Innovation and Conservation wage their perpetual conflict, as they may and can. Wherein the ‘daemonic e... ...could M. de Clugny manage the duty; or indeed do anything, but consume his wages; attain ‘a place in History, ’ where as an ineffectual shadow thou be... ...the burden of the Finances, for five years long? (Till May, 1781.) Without wages, for he refused such; cheered only by Public Opinion, and the ministe... ...e wind, ye shall reap the whirlwind. Was it not, from of old, written: The wages of sin is death? But at Longchamp, as elsewhere, we remark for one th... ...e, in their curule chairs, with a proud and tranquil countenance, awaiting slavery or death. Such too is the lofty spectacle, which you, in this hour,...

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...absolutely like thunder’? It is the rush of the whole Court, rushing as in wager, to salute the new Sovereigns: Hail to your Majesties! The Dauphin an... ...ble tendency to persevere as in the Past, must Innovation and Conservation wage their perpetual conflict, as they may and can. Wherein the ‘daemonic e... ...could M. de Clugny manage the duty; or indeed do anything, but consume his wages; attain ‘a place in History, ’ where as an ineffectual shadow thou be... ...the burden of the Finances, for five years long? (Till May, 1781.) Without wages, for he refused such; cheered only by Public Opinion, and the ministe... ...e wind, ye shall reap the whirlwind. Was it not, from of old, written: The wages of sin is death? But at Longchamp, as elsewhere, we remark for one th... ...e, in their curule chairs, with a proud and tranquil countenance, awaiting slavery or death. Such too is the lofty spectacle, which you, in this hour,... ...r, be the month named Brumaire year 2 of Liberty, or November year 1793 of Slavery, the Guillotine goes always, Guillotine va toujours. Enough, Philip... .... These Sons of the Republic, they rose, in mad wrath, to deliver her from Slavery and Cimmeria. And have they not done it? Through Maritime Alps, thr...

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...design by their mighty labor. They have come undoubtingly for their agreed wage. Then there happens what is to them an incredible, inconceivable thing... ...n mosses of its valleys shall be changed into smoke, slag, and filth; when slavery, disease, and squalor, soothed by drunkenness and mastered by the p... ...nal agita- tion for Liberal reforms, made common cause with the starv- ing wage-working class, and resorted to armed rebellion, which reached Dresden ... ... work of a tribe called the Neidings, upon whom he and Wolfing thenceforth waged implacable war until the day when his father disappeared, leaving no ... ...derer’s reply is to sit down and challenge the dwarf to a trial of wit. He wagers his head against Mimmy’s that he will answer any three questions the... ...seems to them to have been the most cruel and mischievous feature of their slavery to duty. It is useless to warn them that this reaction, if prescrib...

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... She is, she remains, an object of sensual desire, and she knows it. It is slavery, for slavery is nothing else than the utilization of the labor of s... ...han the utilization of the labor of some for the enjoyment of others. That slavery may not exist people must refuse to enjoy the labor of others, and ... ...s the formal sales of slaves, and then they imagine and assure others that slavery is abol- ished. They are unwilling to see that it still exists, sin... ...reased his offers, but the former, equal to the emergency, also raised the wages of his workmen. Tarras, having plenty of money, increased the offers ...

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...cause you send me off of your own accord. And you’re not to stop any of my wages, Captain!’ His employer settled the last point by producing the tin c... ...erits after being spoiled by Miss Dombey, withdrew to prepare the Nipper~s wages. Susan then bestirred herself to get her trunks in order, that she mi... ...by?’ ‘Never you mind, Misses Brown,’ returned the Grinder, shortly. ‘Board wages, perhaps, Rob?’ said Mrs Brown. ‘Pretty Polly!’ said the Grinder. The... ...d easiest part of the world, my soul, we’ll both seek compensation for old slavery.’ He was coming gaily towards her, when, in an instant, she caught ... ...he had come back never to be parted from her old mistress any more. ‘As to wages dear Miss Floy,’ she said, ‘you wouldn’t hint and wrong me so as thin... ...g time, unexpectedly discharges from it words to this effect, ‘Suppose the wages shouldn’t be paid!’ The company sit for a moment speechless; but Cook...

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...ou and squeezed the hero out of you. All for Adiante! or a country left to slavery! that’s the tale. And what are you now? A paltry cap- tain of hussa... ...ubility might be encouraged and their affectionateness deserved by liberal wages. The promptitude of Irish blood to deliver the war-cry either upon a ... ...er curved upon the pattern spectacles. Your Frenchmen are revolutionising, wagering on tentative politics; your Germans ploughing in philosophy, thumb...

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... reward. ‘But we must be quiet, or that devil will bethink him of me. I’ll wager something he thought that I was out merry-making like the rest; and i... ...ntempt for their religion; of her determination to reduce them to absolute slavery; of the preliminary measures she had already taken by erecting fort... ...ughing; whereas, if you meet an equal party of my own unhappy sex, you may wager safely that they are talk- ing gravely, and that one of them is utter... ...; prejudices and false usages, that laid waste human hap- piness, (such as slavery and many hundreds of other abuses that might be mentioned,) the rul... ..., and suddenly—so that he is com- pelled to seek his remuneration from the wages or fees of his employers, not from the treasure itself. Many more sec... ... avarice ministered to the purification of barbarism; and the very evil of slavery in its earliest form was applied to the mitigation of another evil—...

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... a God based viewpoint. 240 Immoral from a God based point of view 241 Moral from a societal point of view 241 Immoral from a societal viewpoint. 242 SLAVERY 242 Moral from a self-centered point of view 245 Immoral from a self-centered point of view.246 Moral from a God based viewpoint 246 Immoral from a God based point of view 246 Moral from a societal viewpoint 246 Immor...

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...he bureaucratic red tape makes it ineffective in terms of cost. It seems to me that having private industry take tax credits against a minimum wage w...

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...ws  Set the death penalty for robbery and adultery,  Put an end to slavery (from which he himself had suffered),  Banned the selling of wom... ... enemy aristocrats as quickly as possible in order to forestall having to wage future wars against them. Mongols launch three-decade expansion G... ...founder adapted the tribal battle tactics of his mounted nomad hunters to wage war against civilized nations:  Each warrior carried only what he... ...nacs featured uniform tables for computing costs of goods and payments of wages as well as lists converting weights and measures. By the seventeenth ... ...eacted to the 1381 Peasants Revolt by levying a new poll tax and imposing wage controls (but no price controls). When the protesting rebels invaded L... ...f employers in the industry accepted an eight- hour day along with minimum wage standards and a limit on the maximum output per man per day. The I...

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...n this novel is one which seems to prom ise. In the Adirondack woods is a wage earner and lay preacher in the lumber camps who is of noble character ... ... day, for a man to speak out openly and proclaim himself an enemy of negro slavery was simply to proclaim himself Mark T wain 119 a madman. For he wa... ...med himself an abolitionist— straight out and publicly! He said that negro slavery was a crime, an infamy. For a moment the town was paralyzed with as... ...es, it is healing and refreshing to breathe air that has known no taint of slavery for six hun dred years, and to come among a people whose political... ...ot so that they could not make a living, there was so much competition and wages got cut so. Some of them were out of work months at a time, with wife...

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...st, “The Communist Manifesto” 5 the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage labourers. The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sen ti... ...the repulsiveness of the work in “The Communist Manifesto” 9 creases, the wage decreases. Nay more, in proportion as the use of machinery and divis... ...of the labourer by the manufacturer, so far, at an end, that he receives his wages in cash, than he is set upon by the other portions of the bourgeois... ...hinery obliterates all distinctions of labour, and nearly everywhere reduces wages to the same low level. The growing competition among the bourgeois,... ...tition among the bourgeois, and the resulting commercial cri ses, make the wages of the workers ever more fluctuat ing. The unceasing improvement o... ...e because it is incompetent to assure an ex istence to its slave within his slavery, because it cannot help letting him sink into such a state, that ...

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...is what will smooth the way to their accomplish- ment. Penury is the worst slavery, and will soon lead to death. But money is only a means; it presupp... ...r a necessary in social life; but it is the coin in which mankind pays his wages to the individual man. And from this side, the question of money has ... ... and readiest, if not the most just, criterion of a man’s services, is the wage that mankind pays him or, briefly, what he earns. There at least there... ...duty, where others than himself shall judge the service and proportion the wage. And yet it is to this very responsibility that the rich are born. The... ...her; they are their own paymasters on parole; and must pay themselves fair wages and no more. For I suppose that in the course of ages, and through re... ...egin like Whittington, until he had found some way of serving mankind. His wage is physically in his own hand; but, in honour, that wage must still be...

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...evil, with whom, as with the Prince of Lies and Darkness, we do at all times wage internecine war. This assurance, at an epoch when puffery and quacke... ...h what effects, in various times and countries, Deception takes the place of wages of Perfor mance: here truly is an Inquiry big with results for the... ...pearance of Ware so high even as at One to a Hundred (which, considering the Wages of a Pope, Russian Autocrat, or English Game Preserver, is probably... ...erto suspect in himself any literary gift; but at best earns bread and water wages, by his wide faculty of Translation. Nevertheless,” continues he, “... ...gs to us by nature, and of indefeasible right. It is sim ple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint; only such o... ...ble Fox: every prick of that little instrument is pricking into the heart of Slavery, and World worship, and the Mammon god. Thy elbows jerk, as in st...

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...eans of realiz ing that improvability by securing full employment at high wages to the whole labouring population through a volun tary restriction o... ...re merely co extensive with these; given certain institutions and customs, wages, profits, and rent will be determined by certain causes; but this cla... ... an indefinite duration. Having been a deeply interested ob server of the slavery quarrel in America, during the many years that preceded the open br... ... an aggressive enterprise of the slave owners to ex tend the territory of slavery; under the combined influences 152 Autobiography of pecuniary inte... ... yet been awakened only to the point of resisting the further extension of slavery, but whose fidelity to the Constitution of the United States made t... ...them disapprove of any attempt by the Federal Government to interfere with slavery in the States where it already ex isted, would acquire feelings of... ...y many years of discussion and exposure to feel strongly the enormities of slavery; and the inattention habitual with Englishmen to whatever is going ...

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...le. Here you have freedom in love and in morality mock- ing exquisitely at slavery to them, and interesting you, at- tracting you, tempting you, inexp... ...n, danger and unutterable 15 Man & Superman discomforts cannot deter her, slavery and swaddled ankles will not. And yet we assume that the force that... ...l the rest is at worst mere misfortune or mortality: this alone is misery, slavery, hell on earth; and the revolt against it is the only force that of... ...ature embodied in a woman can enslave a man? OCTAVIUS. What matter, if the slavery makes us happy? TANNER. No matter at all if you have no purpose of ... ... the world would be com- pelled to reform itself industrially, and abolish slavery and squalor, which exist only because everybody does as you do, let... ... not killing and dying that degrade us, but base living, and accepting the wages and profits of deg- radation. Better ten dead men than one live slave...

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... of confessing his innermost beliefs—which should console him for the hard slavery of the pen. III LIBERTY OF IMAGINATION should be the most precious ... ...o more unworthy supports: to the moral corrup- tion and mental darkness of slavery, to the mere brute force of numbers. This very ignominy of infatuat... ...ng else in the world, has moulded her institutions, and with the poison of slavery drugged the national temperament into the apathy of a hopeless fata... ... race, the short era of national wars seems about to close. No war will be waged for an idea. The “nox- ious idle aristocracies” of yesterday fought w... ...to suppose that whatever war comes to us next it will not be a distant war waged by Russia either beyond the Amur or beyond the Oxus. The Japanese arm... ... and Letters surrender myself to its care. And now, in the year of the war waged for honour and conscience more than for any other cause, I was there ... ...ave no difficulty in replacing them by oth- ers, just as good, at the same wages. It was their bitter fate. But I, who can look at some arduous years ... ...ple not a bit worse than themselves. It is hon- est to give value for your wages; and the “bravos” of ancient Venice who kept their stilettos in good ...

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...ins a calculation that no less than twenty-three wars are at present being waged to confirm the peace, England is no longer in khaki; and a violent re... ...perly, am I? I’m afraid of the men that would starve if it weren’t for the wages I give them, am I? I’m nothing but a disgusting old skinflint to be m... ...s to bed at once, Hector. [She goes into the garden]. HECTOR. Is there any slavery on earth viler than this sla- very of men to women? RANDALL [rising...

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...MR LEMUEL GULLIVER, THE GRATEFUL ADDRESS OF THE UNHAPPY HOUYHNHNMS, NOW IN SLAVERY AND BONDAGE IN ENGLAND. To thee, we wretches of the Houyhnhnm band,... ...mons in strange league engage, And earth, and heaven, and hell her battles wage. She eyed the bard, where supperless he sate, And pined, unconscious o... ...world,—all equally concurring to narrow the understanding, and estab- lish slavery and error in literature, philosophy, and politics. The whole finish...

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...deed was true of those papers. “Sermons indeed—it’s treason, I would lay a wager,” cries the lawyer. “Egad! it’s Greek to me,” says Captain Westbury. ... ...y to one, and end our days in peace there away from you.” “And is there no slavery in a convent?” says Esmond. “At least if women are slaves there, no... ...e went on, not re- garding this speech. “Y ou are sent to bid me back into slavery again, and inform me that my lord’s favor is graciously re- stored ... ...t was the real cause, of the quar- rel betwixt him and poor Frank? I would wager ’twas a woman.” “’Twas a quarrel about play—on my word, about play,” ... ...h his former bookish life and quietude,—a bitter feeling of revolt at that slavery in which he had chosen to confine himself 176 Henry Esmond for the... ... be made a Peer, and that sort of thing? you be shot in the next action! I wager a dozen of Burgundy you are not touched. Mohun is well of his wound. ... ...een more successful, the con- queror might have got the price for which he waged it. As it was, (and justly, I think,) the party adverse to the Duke i... ...resses in his court at Herrenhausen, and if he comes to be king over us, I wager that the bishops and Mr. Swift, that wants to be one, will coax and w...

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...’s great family coach, and chattering with Lady Gwinever about the strange wager. “Do you know what a pony is, Lady Gwinever?” he asked. Her ladyship ... ...bly elucidate the above mystery, and to the follow- ing effect:— “Singular Wager.—One night, at the end of last season, the young and eccentric Earl o... ...at the end of last season, the young and eccentric Earl of B-gn-gge laid a wager of twenty- five thousand pounds with a broken sporting patrician, the... ...sh costume under a cloak, and displaying it as a proof that he had won his wager.” Such, indeed, were the circumstances. The young couple have not mor... ...never seen equalled by the best of the proud English nobles with whom they wage war. I am told they speak their very language with a grace which the h... ...less Shah Allum, and though he destroyed his oppressor, only increased his slavery; holding him in as painful a bondage as he had suffered under the t...

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...est cut of all, he does not care to justify his indifference. Give him the wages of going on and being an Englishman, that is all he asks; and in the ... ...t tempted me; and I practised to acquire it, as men learn to whittle, in a wager with myself. Description was the princi- pal field of my exercise; fo... ...as mankind, and is indeed the life of man: the unsparing war, the grinding slavery of competi- tion; the toil of seventy years, dear-bought bread, pre... ...ce. But the dog, with one eye ever on the audience, has been wheedled into slavery, and praised and patted into the re- nunciation of his nature. Once...