 Such indiscriminate and unlimited. employment of the poor, consisting of a great proportion of the inhabitants of trading districts, will be attended with effects to the rising generation so serious and alarming, that I cannot contemplate them without...  Hansard's Parliamentary Debates - Page 389by Great Britain. Parliament - 1838Full view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1836 - 568 pages
...generation so serious and alarming that he could not contemplate them without dismay ; and thus, that the great effort of British ingenuity, whereby the machinery...perfection, instead of being a blessing to the nation, would be converted into the bitterest curse.' The law of 1802 had been limited in its operation to... | |
 | 1838 - 948 pages
...effects to the rising generation so serious and alarming, that I cannot contemplate them without dismay ; and thus that great effort of British ingenuity, whereby...nation, will be converted into the bitterest curse." Docs the Noble Lord opposite, then, think that this question is to be evaded ? Docs he believe matters... | |
 | 1836 - 564 pages
...generation so serious and alarming that he could not contemplate them without dismav ; and thus, that the great effort of British ingenuity, whereby the machinery...perfection, instead of being a blessing to the nation, would be conrerfcd into the bitterest curse.' The law of 1802 had been limited in its operation to... | |
 | Henry Brown (artisan.) - Cotton - 1840 - 218 pages
...effects to the rising generation so serious and alarming, that I cannot contemplate them without dismay ; and thus that great effort of British ingenuity, whereby...nation, will be converted into the bitterest curse." These are the words of a gentleman, by no means an enthusiast or amateur philanthropist, but one who... | |
 | 1842 - 678 pages
...BRITISH INGENUITY, iTHERKBY THE MACHINERY OF OUtt MANUFACTURES HA» BEEN BROl UIIT TO SUCH PKHFECTION, INSTEAD OF BEING A BLESSING TO THE NATION', WILL BE CONVERTED INTO THE BITTEREST CURSE." I do riot know that I can render my country a greater service, in such times as these, when we have... | |
 | William Dodd - A voice from the factories - 1847 - 190 pages
...effects to the rising generation so serious and alarming, that I cannot contemplate them without dismay; and thus that great effort of British ingenuity, whereby...nation, will be converted into the bitterest curse." It will be necessary here to state, that Sir Robert Peel, senior, introduced a Bill into Parliament... | |
 | William Dodd - Agricultural laborers - 1848 - 180 pages
...effects to the rising generation so serious and alarming, that I cannot contemplate them without dismay; and thus that great effort of British ingenuity, whereby...nation, will be converted into the bitterest curse." It will be necessary here to state, that Sir Robert Peel, senior, introduced a Bill into Parliament... | |
 | Samuel Kydd - Child labor - 1857 - 368 pages
...effects to the rising generation so serious and alarming, that I cannot contemplate them without dismay, and thus that great effort of British ingenuity, whereby...nation will be converted into the bitterest curse." The deteriorated condition of the population of the factory districts was a fact within the experience... | |
 | Samuel Kydd - Child labor - 1857 - 328 pages
...dismay ; and thus that great effort of British ingenuity, whereby the machinery of our manufactures have been brought to such perfection, instead of being...nation, will be converted into the bitterest curse.' Mr William Rathbone Greg, in a pamphlet, published in 1831, and Mr Sheriff Alison, in his evidence... | |
 | Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury - Labor and laboring classes - 1868 - 466 pages
...effects to the rising generation so serious and alarming, that I cannot contemplate them without dismay ; and thus that great effort of British ingenuity, whereby...were not listened to with attention in that House ? It was utterly impossible. The evil was increasing daily and hourly ; and unless they addressed themselves... | |
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