Notes of a Traveller on the Social and Political State of France, Prussia, Switzerland, Italy and Other Parts of Europe During the Present CenturyLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1842 - 496 halaman |
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Halaman 3 - ... gigs, and stool waggons, loaded with rosy-cheeked laughing country girls, decked out in ribbons of many more colours than the rainbow, all astreaming in the wind; — these are the objects which strike the eye of the traveller from seaward, and form a gay front view of Holland, as he sails or steams along its coast and up its rivers.
Halaman 459 - Perugia, — compare the well-clothed, busy people, the smart country girls at work about their cows' food, or their silkworm leaves, with the ragged, sallow, indolent population lounging" about their doors in the papal dominions, starving, and with nothing to do on the great estates ; nay, compare the agricultural industry and operations in this land of small farms, with the best of our...
Halaman 247 - BERLIN has the air of the metropolis of a kingdom of yesterday. No Gothic churches, narrow streets, fantastic gable ends, no historical stone and lime, no remnants of the picturesque ages, recal the olden time.
Halaman 357 - ... work. But females, both in France and Switzerland, appear to have a far more important role in the family, among the lower and middle classes than with us. The female, although not exempt from out-door work, and even hard work, undertakes the thinking and managing department in the family affairs, and the husband is but the executive officer. The female is...
Halaman 459 - The soil and climate and productions are the same in all these countries. The difference must be accounted for by the happier distribution of the land in Tuscany, In 1836, Tuscany contained 1,436,785 inhabitants, and 130,190 landed estates. Deducting 7,901 estates belonging to towns, churches, or other corporate bodies, we have 122,289 belonging to the people — or, in other words, 48 families in every 100 have land of their own to live from.
Halaman 93 - November, 1815, has been adopted by almost all the secondary European powers. By this system* every subject between the ages of 20 and 25 years, without distinction of fortune, birth, class, or intended profession, is bound to serve as a private soldier in the ranks of the standing army for a period of three successive years. From this obligation only the most obvious incapacity from bodily or mental defect or infirmity can excuse any individual, and that incapacity must be examined and admitted...
Halaman 192 - The principle that the civil government, or State, or Church and State united, of a country is entitled to regulate its religious belief, has more of intellectual thraldom in it than the power of the popish Church ever exercised in the darkest ages; for it had no civil power joined to its religious power. It only worked through the civil power of each country. The Church of Rome was an independent, distinct, and often an opposing power in every country to the civil power; A CIRCUMSTANCE IN THE SOCIAL...
Halaman 35 - ... by the division and subdivision of trades and professions; such a people, instead of proceeding from the necessaries to the comforts of life, and then to the luxuries as is the order of things in England, are rather retrograde than progressive. There is no advancement in French society ; no improvement nor hope of it...
Halaman 167 - ... condition in those branches of moral conduct which cannot be taught in schools, and are not taught by the parents, because parental tuition is broken in upon by governmental interference in Prussia, its efficacy and weight annulled, and the natural dependence of the child upon the words and wisdom of its parent — the delicate threads by which the infant's mind, as its body, draws nutriment from its parent — is ruptured.
Halaman 230 - The social value or importance of the Prussian arrangements for diffusing national scholastic education has been evidently overrated ; for now that the whole system has been in the fullest operation in society upon a whole generation, we see morals and religion in a more unsatisfactory state in this very country than in almost any other in the north of Europe; we see nowhere a people in a more abject political and civil condition, or with less free agency in their social economy. A national education,...