 These do much, and have done much in all ages; but the foundations of society were never yet shaken as they are at this day. It is not that men are ill-fed, but that they have no pleasure in the work by which they make their bread, and therefore look...  The Slavery of Our Times - Page xxxiby graf Leo Tolstoy - 1900 - 186 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1855 - 864 pages
...foundations of society were never yet shaken as they are at this day. It is not that men are ill fed, but that they have no pleasure in the work 'by which...the upper classes, but they cannot endure their own ; ibr they feel that the kind of labour to which they are condemned is verily a degrading one, and... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1885 - 970 pages
...foundations of society were never yet shaken as they are at this day. It is not that men are ill fed, but that they have no pleasure in the work by which...make their bread, and therefore look to wealth as tho only means of pleasure. It is not that men are pained by tho scorn of tho upper classes, but they... | |
 | 1889 - 1038 pages
...freedom of which they cannot explain the nature to themselves. . . .It is not that men are ill fed, but that they have no pleasure in the work by which...therefore look to wealth as the only means of pleasure. . . .We have much studied and much perfected of late the civilized invention of the division of labor,... | |
 | Robert Percival Downes - 1890 - 154 pages
...foundations of society were never yet shaken as they are at this day. It is not that men are. ill fed, but that they have no pleasure in the work by which they make their bread, and therefore look towealth as the only means of pleasure. It is not that men are pained by the scorn of the upper classes,... | |
 | Sir Charles Waldstein - 1893 - 218 pages
...incoherent destruction, struggling for a freedom of which they cannot explain the nature to themselves. ... It is not that men are ill-fed, but that they have...therefore look to wealth as the only means of pleasure. . . . We have much studied and much perfected of late the civilized invention of the division of labor,... | |
 | Sir Charles Waldstein - 1894 - 214 pages
...incoherent destruction, struggling for a freedom of which they cannot explain the nature to themselves. ... It is not that men are ill-fed, but that they have...therefore look to wealth as the only means of pleasure. . . . We have much studied and much perfected of late the civilised invention of the division of labour,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1894 - 478 pages
...foundations of society were never yet shaken as they are at this day. It is not that men are ill fed, but that they have no pleasure in the work by which they make their bread c^id therefore look to wealth as the only means of pleasure. It is not that men are pained by the scorn... | |
 | Paul Tyner - 1897 - 444 pages
...foundations of society were never yet shaken as they are at this day. It is not that men are ill fed, but that they have no pleasure in the work by which...therefore, look to wealth as the only means of pleasure. The popular mind has misconceived a separation that does not exist in nature between thinking and doing.... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1901 - 452 pages
...machine which, more than any other evil of the times, is leading the mass of the nations everywhere into vain, incoherent, destructive struggling for...therefore look to wealth as the only means of pleasure. It is«not that men are pained by the scorn of the upper classes, but they cannot endure their own ; for... | |
 | Charles Stuart Welles - 1904 - 366 pages
...not forced from them (the workmen) either by the pressure of famine, or the sting of mortified pride. It is not that men are ill-fed, but that they have...therefore look to WEALTH as the only means of pleasure." Robert, with reasonable enthusiasm, thought that one of the weapons to be used in the fight against... | |
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