An Inquiry Into the Poor Laws: Chiefly with a View to Examine Them as a Scheme of National Benevolence, and to Elucidate Their Political EconomyR. Hunter, 1824 - 162 ページ |
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... effects of a similar nature have * Political Works of Andrew Fletcher , 8vo , 1737 , p . 144.- Currie's Life of Burns , vol . i . p . $ 49 . + I cannot forbear quoting here , though of such common oc- currence , the words of Dr. Currie ...
... effects of a similar nature have * Political Works of Andrew Fletcher , 8vo , 1737 , p . 144.- Currie's Life of Burns , vol . i . p . $ 49 . + I cannot forbear quoting here , though of such common oc- currence , the words of Dr. Currie ...
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... effect en- tirely of human invention . They have always , it is said , been disposed to avoid , rather than to over- come , difficulties ; thus mistaking their way , and * Blackstone's Commentaries , book i . c . 9 . losing half their ...
... effect en- tirely of human invention . They have always , it is said , been disposed to avoid , rather than to over- come , difficulties ; thus mistaking their way , and * Blackstone's Commentaries , book i . c . 9 . losing half their ...
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... effect his comprehensive views of human po- licy ; for no man , according to his biographer , knew less of the application of them to the busi- ness of active life , or was more bewildered in PRELIMINARY REMARKS . 15.
... effect his comprehensive views of human po- licy ; for no man , according to his biographer , knew less of the application of them to the busi- ness of active life , or was more bewildered in PRELIMINARY REMARKS . 15.
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... effect ; deserves well of a class of the com- munity so numerous , that their happiness makes no inconsiderable part of the whole . The study and activity thus employed is charity in the most meritorious sense of the word * . " It would ...
... effect ; deserves well of a class of the com- munity so numerous , that their happiness makes no inconsiderable part of the whole . The study and activity thus employed is charity in the most meritorious sense of the word * . " It would ...
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... in moral qualities . The effect of it is to create a competition of merit , to call forth the utmost energies of the body and mind , and thus to strengthen and purify the faculties . It raises the 18 PRELIMINARY REMARKS .
... in moral qualities . The effect of it is to create a competition of merit , to call forth the utmost energies of the body and mind , and thus to strengthen and purify the faculties . It raises the 18 PRELIMINARY REMARKS .
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46 ページ - ... competent sums of money for and towards the necessary relief of the lame, impotent, old, blind and such other among them being poor and not able to work...
138 ページ - Now, in the present state, all which we enjoy, and a great part of what we suffer, is put in our own power. For pleasure and pain are the consequences of our actions ; and we are endued by the Author of our nature with capacities of foreseeing these consequences.
46 ページ - ... (by taxation of every inhabitant and every occupier of lands in the said parish in such competent sum and sums of money as they shall think fit) a convenient stock of flax, hemp, wool, thread, iron, and other necessary ware and stuff to set the poor on work...
48 ページ - ... for setting to work all such persons, married or unmarried, having no means to maintain them , and use no ordinary and daily trade of life to get their living by...
144 ページ - Commentaries, remarks, that this law of Nature being coeval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times; no human laws are of any validity if contrary to this, and such of them as are valid derive all their force and all their validity and all their authority, mediately and immediately, from this original...
68 ページ - ... one shall remain in the custody of the parson, vicar, or curate, and the other two in the custody of the churchwardens...
139 ページ - I know not that we have any one kind or degree of enjoyment, but by the means of our own actions. And by prudence and care we may, for the most part, pass our days in tolerable ease and quiet ; or, on the contrary, we may, by rashness, ungoverned passion, willfulness, or even by negligence, make ourselves as miserable as ever we please.
30 ページ - This season gave jovial ecclesiastics an opportunity of trying different countries. An Archbishop of York, in 1321, seems to have carried a train of two hundred persons who were maintained at the expense of the abbeys on his road, and to have hunted with a pack of hounds from parish to parish.
6 ページ - ... a most unspeakable oppression to poor tenants (who if they give not bread, or some kind of provision to perhaps forty such villains in one day, are sure to be insulted by them) but they rob many poor people who live in houses distant from any neighbourhood. In years of plenty...
48 ページ - Children; and also for setting to work all such Persons, married or unmarried, having no Means to maintain them, and use no ordinary and daily Trade of Life to get their Living by...