 | Johanna Jacoba van Dulleman - 1924 - 264 pages
...that are free, Such starvation cannot be, As in England now we see," wrote Shelley in the same year. "I have traversed the seat of war in the Peninsula,...never, under the most despotic of infidel governments, have I beheld such squalid wretchedness as I have seen, since my return, in the heart of a Christian... | |
 | William Ralph Inge - 1925 - 296 pages
...part of the last century. It seems in truth to have been very bad. Byron in 1812 told the Lords: ' I have been in some of the most oppressed provinces...return in the very heart of a Christian country.' In 1831 a member of parliament said: ' An agricultural labourer and a pauper—the words are synonymous.'... | |
 | 1926 - 328 pages
...social polity which it engendered was expressed by Lord Byron when he said in the House of Lords : "I have been in some of the most oppressed provinces...return in the very heart of a Christian country." Yet we should do injustice to the disciples of the Manchester School if we supposed that they had no... | |
 | William Ralph Inge - 1926 - 300 pages
...part of the last century. It seems in truth to have been very bad. Byron in 1812 told the Lords : ' I have been in some of the most oppressed provinces...return in the very heart of a Christian country.' In 1831 a member of parliament said : * An agricultural labourer and a pauper — the words are synonymous.'... | |
 | Niels Nielsen - 1927 - 610 pages
...Februar 1812 talte B yroni Overhuset mod the Nottingham Frame« breakers bill. Han sagde blandt andet: I have traversed the seat of war in the Peninsula,...wretchedness as I have seen since my return in the heart of a Christian country. Og idet han modsatte sig de strængc straffebestemmelser, der blev foreslaaede,... | |
 | David F. Noble - 1995 - 186 pages
...many foreign claims to admit a prospect of domestic relief, though never did such objects demand it. I have traversed the seat of war in the Peninsula,...oppressed provinces of Turkey, but never under the most squalid wretchedness I have seen since my return in the very heart of Christian country. And what are... | |
 | Simon Hall - 1999 - 416 pages
...achieved peacefully and that technological irmovation might be of benefit to working men's conditions. 216 Never under the most despotic of infidel governments...my return in the very heart of a Christian country, LUDDlTE speech by L ord Byron in the House of Lords against the death penalty for machine wcecking... | |
 | Christopher John Holloway - 1962 - 62 pages
...earlier part of the last century. It seems in truth to have been very bad. Byron in 1812 told the Lords : 'I have been in some of the most oppressed provinces...return in the very heart of a Christian country.' In 18313 member of parliament said : ' An agricultural labourer and a pauper — the words are synonymous.'... | |
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I have traversed the seat of war in the peninsula ; I have been in some of the most oppressed provinces of Turkey; but never, under the most despotic of infidel governments, did] I behold such squalid wretchedness as I have seen since my return, in the... 
