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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... object is rather to further what has been already done by the legislature in the Select Vestry Act ; -to establish on a broader basis the new principle there re- cognised ; and to furnish them with ma- terials to build up their work yet ...
... object is rather to further what has been already done by the legislature in the Select Vestry Act ; -to establish on a broader basis the new principle there re- cognised ; and to furnish them with ma- terials to build up their work yet ...
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... object of the politician to elevate , rather than lower , the poor in their own estimation ? Are the wicked best reclaimed by publicly brand- ing them with infamy ? Our experience of such a penalty , of which there has been xii PREFACE .
... object of the politician to elevate , rather than lower , the poor in their own estimation ? Are the wicked best reclaimed by publicly brand- ing them with infamy ? Our experience of such a penalty , of which there has been xii PREFACE .
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... object , and the Justices are to have the power of or- dering paupers to be employed upon the highway or public works , and the power of punishing , if they refuse . This part of the scheme seems rather a provision for a great emergency ...
... object , and the Justices are to have the power of or- dering paupers to be employed upon the highway or public works , and the power of punishing , if they refuse . This part of the scheme seems rather a provision for a great emergency ...
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... object , and thus they frequently defeat their purpose by the minuteness of their enactments . In those governments , where the people have not acquired their share of influence , this , is no doubt an invaluable security ; but as the ...
... object , and thus they frequently defeat their purpose by the minuteness of their enactments . In those governments , where the people have not acquired their share of influence , this , is no doubt an invaluable security ; but as the ...
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... object , and equalling , if not surpassing , in magnitude the parliamentary provision of the sister country , can only be attri- buted to some influence which has counteracted the intentions of our philanthropists , who certainly have ...
... object , and equalling , if not surpassing , in magnitude the parliamentary provision of the sister country , can only be attri- buted to some influence which has counteracted the intentions of our philanthropists , who certainly have ...
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act to amend act to explain acts of parliament alms almsgiving animals apprentices attempt beggars benefit benevolence better Bishop Butler character church churchwardens ciples common conduct consequence Deity directed distress duty effect Eliz employ employment enacted encouraged established evil exercise feeling gaols Gilbert's act give given gulation habits happiness houses of correction human idle and disorderly impotent poor improvement increase industry instinctive justices labour lative legislation legislature living magistrates maintenance means ment mischief misery moral moral agency nature neral ness nevolence object obligation overseers parish parishioners parochial Poor Laws poor persons powerful instinct practice present day principle punishment racter raise rates reason regard relating remedy repealed RICHARD TAYLOR scheme Select Vestry society species statute subsistence sums sustenance tendency thing tion tithes vagabonds vagrants vicious virtue of charity virtuous wages workhouses
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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...