Grahame, J: Sabbath

Excerpt from The Sabbath: And Other PoemsIt is this beneficent institution that forms the grand bulwark of poverty against the encroachments of capital. The labouring classes sell their time. The rich are the buyers, at least they are the chief buyers; for it is obvious, that more than the half of the waking hours of those who earn their bread by the sweat of their brow, is consumed in the manufacture of articles that cannot be deemed either necessaries or comforts. Six days of the week are thue duposcd of already: if the seventh were in the m5arket, it would find purchasers too. The abolition of the Sabbath would, in truth,be equivalent to a sentence, adjudging to the rich the services of the poor for wk.In the Biblical Pictures, I have attempted (0 delineate some of those scenes which painters have so successfully presented to the eye. I need hardly say, however, that, by the adoption of this title, I meant not to subject mvseifto the principles of the art of painting. - I have not confined myself to the objects of sight, not adhered to one point of time. I have often represented a series of incidents; and, in portraying characters, I have made them speak, as well as act.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.