Word: poorer
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...noble a man as is to be met with once in an age, still it is perhaps more pleasant to have that meeting take place in a book than in real life. He is one of those persons who are always misjudged, and judged only by the poorer side of their characters. Should we meet him tomorrow, we should set him down as a prig, and perhaps be right in doing so. But if he is a prig at all, his priggishness is only a blemish, and not the mainspring of his character...
...nobody knows facts enough to give a valuable opinion. It is the facts which General Oliver's bureau is trying to obtain, and if we may trust what he has already collected, a thorough reformation is needed in the condition of the laboring classes. The oppression of the poorer class by Capital is none the less real because of such a nature that it is more felt than seen. To those who wish to investigate these subjects we commend the above-mentioned report as replete with useful information...
...country gentleman. Mr. Hughes may stand as a representative of the most thoroughly developed Englishman; manly to the last degree, taking a vigorous interest in every reform, bringing up his children with reverence for Church and State, and for their own minds and bodies, and preserving among the poorer inhabitants of his vicinity that almost unattainable mean between too great and too little familiarity...