Industrial revolution

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The Continent will not suffer England to be the workshop of the world.

Benjamin Disraeli

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Industrial revolution Europe

Speaker

Benjamin Disraeli

Source

Speeches of Benjamin Disraeli

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1838 1830s 19th century

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Citation

Disraeli, Benjamin. Address on the abolition of corn laws. House of Commons. 15 March 1838, The Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK.

The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!

William Wordsworth

The World Is Too Much with Us

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Topic

Materialism Industrial revolution

Author

William Wordsworth

Source

The World Is Too Much with Us

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1807 1800s 19th century

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Original Citation

Wordsworth, William. Poems, in Two Volumes. Vol. 1, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1807, pt. 1, no. 18, I. 1.

Current Citation

Wordsworth, William. "The world is too much with us." William Wordsworth: The Major Works: including The Prelude, edited by Stephen Gill. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Improvements succeeded each other so rapidly, that machines which had never been finished were abandoned in the hands of their makers, because new improvements had superseded their utility.

Charles Babbage

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Topic

Technological progress Progress Industrial revolution

Author

Charles Babbage

Source

On the Economy of Manufactures

Genre

Economic literature

Language

English

Time

1832 1830s 19th century

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Original Citation

Babbage, Charles. On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures. London: Charles Knight, 1832, ch. 29.

Current Citation

Babbage, Charles. On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures. Cambridge University Press, 2010, ch. 29.