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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... reason of this present great distress , " [ a famine then prevailed , ] " yet at all times there have been about one hundred thou- sand of those vagabonds , who have lived without any regard or subjection , either to the laws of the ...
... reason of this present great distress , " [ a famine then prevailed , ] " yet at all times there have been about one hundred thou- sand of those vagabonds , who have lived without any regard or subjection , either to the laws of the ...
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... reason does not appear ) , and it is made a voluntary act on the part of the overseers and lord of the manor . Next followed the famous statute of the 43d of Elizabeth , which was a digest of all the former laws on the subject . If we ...
... reason does not appear ) , and it is made a voluntary act on the part of the overseers and lord of the manor . Next followed the famous statute of the 43d of Elizabeth , which was a digest of all the former laws on the subject . If we ...
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... reason , and should tend to increase the happiness of its object . Upon the truth of this depends the negative or af- firmative of the position stated at the commence- ment of this chapter . Now , if almsgiving be an absolute duty ...
... reason , and should tend to increase the happiness of its object . Upon the truth of this depends the negative or af- firmative of the position stated at the commence- ment of this chapter . Now , if almsgiving be an absolute duty ...
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... reason , and therefore it follows that it must be voluntary . How does universal indiscriminate almsgiving comport with this idea ? And besides , if it be thus universal and obligatory on every recurrence of misery , with- out selection ...
... reason , and therefore it follows that it must be voluntary . How does universal indiscriminate almsgiving comport with this idea ? And besides , if it be thus universal and obligatory on every recurrence of misery , with- out selection ...
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... reason should exercise over the benevolent affections : but the reader will do me the favour to keep in mind , that as moral and rational agents are the objects of benevolence , they are to be treated as such ; and that they are not to ...
... reason should exercise over the benevolent affections : but the reader will do me the favour to keep in mind , that as moral and rational agents are the objects of benevolence , they are to be treated as such ; and that they are not to ...
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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...