Town Swamps and Social BridgesRoutledge, Warnes, & Routledge, 1859 - 102 pages |
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Page 2 - Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace, As mercy does.
Page 48 - that is only because it has not yet come to its age of discretion and choice. The weeds, you see, have taken the liberty to grow, and I thought it unfair in me to prejudice the soil towards roses and strawberries.
Page 21 - Talk of morality amongst people who herd, men, women, and children together, with no regard of age or sex, in one narrow confined apartment ! You might as well talk of cleanliness in a sty, or of limpid purity in the contents of a cesspool.
Page 41 - The woman's cause is man's: they rise or sink Together, dwarf'd or godlike, bond or free...
Page 89 - My busied mind from tales and madrigals; My doughty giants all are slain or fled, And all my knights, blue, green, and yellow, dead! No more the midnight fairy tribe I view, All in the merry moonshine tippling dew; E'en the last lingering fiction of the brain, The church-yard ghost, is now at rest again; And all these wayward wanderings of my youth Fly Reason's power and shun the light of truth.
Page 48 - Our outward life requires them not — Then wherefore had they birth ? — To minister delight to man, To beautify the earth ; To comfort man — to whisper hope, Whene'er his faith is dim, For who so careth for the flowers Will much more care for him ! Mary Howitt.
Page 48 - Thelwall thought it very unfair to influence a child's mind by inculcating any opinions before it should have come to years of discretion and be able to choose for itself. I showed him my garden, and told him it was my botanical garden. " How so ?" said he ;
Page iii - Rise! for the day is passing, And you lie dreaming on; The others have buckled their armour, And forth to the fight are gone: A place in the ranks awaits you, Each man has some part to play; The Past and the Future are nothing, In the face of the stern To-day.
Page 51 - As there is no difference whatever, either in the houses or the people receiving the supply of the two Water Companies, or in any of the physical conditions with which they are surrounded, it is obvious that no experiment could have been devised which would more thoroughly test the effect of water supply on the progress of cholera than this, which circumstances placed ready made before the observer.
Page 70 - ... practice. I have often stated and taught, that if our present medical, surgical, and obstetric hospitals were changed from being crowded palaces, — with a layer of sick in each flat, — into villages or cottages, with one, or at most two, patients in each room, a great saving of human life would be effected ; and if the village were constructed of iron (as is now sometimes done for other purposes) instead of brick or stone, it could be taken down and rebuilt every few years — a matter apparently...