The Economy Of Charity, Volume 2 |
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Common terms and phrases
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Popular passages
Page 283 - ... righteousness exalteth a nation, but" that "sin is a reproach to any people.
Page 231 - To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
Page 321 - Now, sir, you have a pleasure in seeing my cottage and garden neat ; and why should not other squires have the same pleasure in seeing the cottages and gardens as nice about them. The poor would then be happy, and would love them, and the place where they lived: but now every little nook of land is to be let to the great farmers, and nothing left for the poor but to go to the parish.
Page 320 - ... in his attempt to thrive upon it, almost all the little property that he had heaped together. He then fixed in a cottage at Poppleton; where, with two acres of land, and his common right, he kept two cows. Here he had resided very comfortably, as a labourer, for nine years, and had six children living, and his wife preparing to lie in of a seventh, when an...
Page 299 - ... their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore are they before the throne of God, and ferve him day and night in his temple: and he that fitteth on the throne mall dwell among them.
Page 321 - Kelfield; a third of a labouring man, who has a little land of his own, near Duffield ; the fourth is the wife of a labourer, who has built a cottage for himself at Tadcaster, and wants nothing (as the father observed) but a bit of ground for a garden. Britton Abbot says he now earns 12s, and sometimes 15s. and 18s. a week, by hoeing turnips by the piece ; setting quick, and other task-work :
Page 346 - Society for bettering the condition and increafing the comforts of the poor;' an cftablifhment, which, we truft, may be the means of adding much to the general mafs of national happinefs.
Page 320 - ... of subsistence for his family " He applied to Squire Fairfax, and told him that, if he would let him have a little bit of ground by the road side, " he would show him the fashions on it.
Page 322 - Though my visit,' says Sir Thomas, ' was unexpected, and he at the latter .end of his Saturday's work, his clothes were neat and sufficiently clean. His countenance was healthy and open ; he was a little lame in one leg, the consequence of exposure to wet and weather. He said he had always worked hard and well ; but he would not deny but that he had loved a mug of good ale when he could get it. When I told him my object...