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Page 223 - Whiles it remained, was it not thine own ? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power ? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart ? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
Page 152 - As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
Page 201 - Urbanization thus proceeded very rapidly during the second half of the nineteenth century and the early part of the twentieth century, when industrial employment and output also were increasing rapidly.
Page 288 - And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.
Page 40 - If we all came of the same father and mother, of Adam and Eve, how can they say or prove that they are better than we, if it be not that they make us gain for them by our toil what they spend in their pride...
Page 153 - It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Page 286 - Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
Page 40 - They are clothed in velvet and warm in their furs and their ermines, while we are covered with rags. They have wine and spices and fair bread ; and we oat-cake and straw, and water to drink. They have leisure and fine houses ; we have pain and labour, the rain and the wind in the fields. And yet it is of us and of our toil that these men hold their state.
Page 170 - An American Federation of all National and International Trade Unions, to aid and assist each other; to aid and encourage the sale of union label goods, and to secure legislation in the interest of the working people, and influence public opinion, by peaceful and legal methods, in favor of organized labor.
Page 184 - They were President Carnot of France in 1894, Premier Canovas of Spain in 1897, Empress Elizabeth of Austria in 1898, King Humbert of Italy in 1900, President McKinley of the United States in 1901, and another Premier of Spain, Canalejas, in 1912.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Capital and Labor |
| Author | William Shuler Harris |
| Publisher | Minter Company, 1907 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 19 Oct 2007 |
| Length | 331 pages |
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