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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... things ; and that as we descend into parti- culars , it becomes still more arbitrary , and can be considered as little more , than as • furnishing suggestions which every one accommodates to his previous notions PREFACE . XV.
... things ; and that as we descend into parti- culars , it becomes still more arbitrary , and can be considered as little more , than as • furnishing suggestions which every one accommodates to his previous notions PREFACE . XV.
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... thing by a written law , and leav- ing little to be done by the common sense of mankind . It is an evil into which we have unwarily been driven by our jealousy of arbitrary power ; but let us not , there- fore , go to the other extreme ...
... thing by a written law , and leav- ing little to be done by the common sense of mankind . It is an evil into which we have unwarily been driven by our jealousy of arbitrary power ; but let us not , there- fore , go to the other extreme ...
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... thing like the numbers , or the wealth , or the information , which is possessed by them in Great Britain . The same cause exists at each extremity of so- ciety to contribute to a different state of things : for those who occupy these ...
... thing like the numbers , or the wealth , or the information , which is possessed by them in Great Britain . The same cause exists at each extremity of so- ciety to contribute to a different state of things : for those who occupy these ...
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... thing , upon the fundamental principles of right and wrong . Politicians are for this precipitancy justly charged with being too much the advocates of expedients , as if social order was the effect en- tirely of human invention . They ...
... thing , upon the fundamental principles of right and wrong . Politicians are for this precipitancy justly charged with being too much the advocates of expedients , as if social order was the effect en- tirely of human invention . They ...
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... thing before we can pos- sess it , I regard as the chief means by which hu- man society is improved , first in physical , and then in moral qualities . The effect of it is to create a competition of merit , to call forth the utmost ...
... thing before we can pos- sess it , I regard as the chief means by which hu- man society is improved , first in physical , and then in moral qualities . The effect of it is to create a competition of merit , to call forth the utmost ...
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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...