Journal of social science, Issue 16

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Page 6 - Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
Page 18 - They shall make sanitary investigations and inquiries in respect to the people, the causes of disease, and especially of epidemics, and the sources of mortality, and the effects of localities, employments, conditions, and circumstances, on the public health...
Page 108 - Whereas it is necessary for the support of government, for the discharge of the debts of the United States, and the encouragement and protection of manufactures, that duties be laid on goods, wares, and merchandises imported: Be it enacted, etc.
Page 8 - Where he greatly stood at bay, Whence he issued forth anew, And ever great and greater grew, Beating from the wasted vines Back to France her banded swarms, Back to France with countless blows, Till o'er the hills her eagles flew...
Page 8 - And barking for the thrones of kings ; Till one that sought but Duty's iron crown On that loud sabbath shook the spoiler down ; A day of onsets of despair...
Page 74 - Health shall have the general supervision of the interests of health and life of the citizens of this State.
Page 15 - I will have never a noble, No lineage counted great; Fishers and choppers and ploughmen Shall constitute a state.
Page 125 - Let the Captains of Industry retire into their own hearts, and ask solemnly, If there is nothing but vulturous hunger, for fine wines, valet reputation and gilt carriages, discoverable there?
Page 128 - ... a home for her fatherless children. Troops of young girls came from different parts of New England, and from Canada, and men were employed to collect them at so much a head, and deliver them at the factories. Some of these were daughters of professional men or teachers, whose mothers, left widows, were struggling to maintain the younger children.
Page 111 - It should not be forgotten that "the term factory system, in technology, designates the combined operation of many orders of work-people ... in tending with assiduous skill a series of productive machines continually propelled by a central power. This definition includes such organizations as cotton-mills, flax-mills, silk and woolen-mills, and many other works; but it excludes those in which the mechanisms do not form a connected series, nor are dependent on one prime mover.

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