The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong, the Factory Boy, Zväzok 1H. Colburn, 1840 - 387 strán (strany) |
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Strana 200 - Lean and distorted limbs — sallow and sunken cheeks — dim hollow eyes, that speak unrest and most unnatural carefulness, give to each tiny, trembling, unelastic form, a look of hideous premature old age. But in the room they entered, the dirty, ragged, miserable crew, were all in active performance of their various tasks ; the overlookers, strap in hand, on the alert ; the whirling spindles urging the little slaves who waited on them, to movements as unceasing as their own . and the whole monstrous...
Strana 286 - I want to find out is whether, by the nature of things, it is impossible to manufacture worsted and cotton wool into articles useful to man, without rendering those employed upon it unfit to associate with the rest of their fellow-creatures...
Strana 297 - ... em, that our only reason for trying to make ' down with, the corn-laws,' the popular cry is, that we may whisper in their ears, ' down with the wages ' afterwards. Ay, doctor, if we can but manage this England will become the paradise of manufacturers! — the great workshop of the world ! When strangers climb our chalk cliffs to get a peep at us, they shall see, land at what point they will, the glowing fires that keep our engines going, illuminating the l:inu Irom One extremity of the island...
Strana 82 - Are the parents living ?" inquired Sir Matthew. " The mother is. She is a bedridden woman, and ought to be in the workhouse ; but she's upish and can't abide it, and so she lies abed, doing plain work and that, and the two boys' wages maintains 'em. But I did hear t'other day, she had given in, and was a begging to go into the house, and take the eldest boy with her. These creturs never know what they would be at. I suspect, howsomever, that she has got hold of a notion, that because he's so cripply,...
Strana 10 - ... this splendid dinner at Dowling Lodge, the company consisted of a selection from the neighbouring families, made on the most legitimate principles of exclusiveness ; no family being invited who did not drive four horses at the races. To this there were indeed two exceptions. The first was the Right Honourable Lady Clarissa Shrimpton ; but this distinguished lady, though she drove only one pony instead of four horses, was considered by all the country round as the one thing needful to render a...
Strana 199 - ... can think of villanous smells, or heed the suffering of the earracking sounds, while they look upon hundreds of helpless children, divested of every trace of health, of joyousness, and even of youth ! Assuredly there is no exaggeration in this; for except only in their diminutive size, these suffering infants have no trace of it. Lean and distorted limbs — sallow and sunken cheeks — dim hollow eyes, that speak unrest and most unnatural carefulness, give to each tiny, trembling, unelastic...
Strana 198 - On seeing a young stranger, the lame porter looked up ; but from him, at least, Michael had nothing to fear ; for the boy's languid eye surveyed his altered person, without the slightest suspicion of ever having seen it before. Sir Matthew, like most others of his craft, was not in the habit of indulging his family by exhibiting to them the secret arcana of that hideous mystery by which the delicate forms of young children are made to mix and mingle with the machinery, from whence flows the manufacturer's...
Strana 40 - The idea of being thus entrapped, and forced to adopt " a bag of rags out of his own factory" (for it was thus he inwardly designated little Michael), galled him for a moment so severely, that he was within an ace of exclaiming, " Confound you, and the beggar's brat together, you old fool .'
Strana 128 - Bowling was in truth, about as ugly as it was possible for a girl of seventeen to be, who was neither deformed nor marked by the smallpox, — short, fat, snub-nosed, red-faced, with a quantity of sandy hair, that, if not red, looked very much as if it intended to be so ; eyes of a light, very light gray, and without any thing whatever in external appearance to recommend her, except a smooth, plump, neck and shoulders, with hands and arms to match, which, in truth, were very fair and nice-looking,...
Strana 199 - ... for ever. The ceaseless whirring of a million hissing wheels seizes on the tortured ear ; and while threatening to destroy the delicate sense, seems bent on proving first, with a sort of mocking mercy, of how much suffering it can be the cause. The scents that reek around, from oil, tainted water, and human filth...