An Inquiry Into the Poor Laws: Chiefly with a View to Examine Them as a Scheme of National Benevolence, and to Elucidate Their Political Economy |
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... statute . The law for more than two centuries has dispensed parish relief without stigmatizing the recipient as an offender , and now it is proposed abrupt- ly to new model , or to give a new character to , the nature of his actions ...
... statute . The law for more than two centuries has dispensed parish relief without stigmatizing the recipient as an offender , and now it is proposed abrupt- ly to new model , or to give a new character to , the nature of his actions ...
Page xii
... Statute Book for more than a century , and was then repealed . Should it not rather be the object of the politician to elevate , rather than lower , the poor in their own estimation ? Are the wicked best reclaimed by publicly brand- ing ...
... Statute Book for more than a century , and was then repealed . Should it not rather be the object of the politician to elevate , rather than lower , the poor in their own estimation ? Are the wicked best reclaimed by publicly brand- ing ...
Page xiii
... Statute Book with communicating further powers for the employment of the poor . The power of withholding relief , if exercised discreetly , will supersede all others ; and the penalty of the natural law will be found sufficiently ...
... Statute Book with communicating further powers for the employment of the poor . The power of withholding relief , if exercised discreetly , will supersede all others ; and the penalty of the natural law will be found sufficiently ...
Page xv
... Statute , simple as its language is , has taken nearly five hundred adjudged cases in the higher courts , and a multitude in the lower which no man can number , to determine its mean- ing and can the legislators of the present day ...
... Statute , simple as its language is , has taken nearly five hundred adjudged cases in the higher courts , and a multitude in the lower which no man can number , to determine its mean- ing and can the legislators of the present day ...
Page xvii
... Statutes relating to Vagrants • 3. Statutes relating to the impotent Poor CHAPTER III . 21 • 34 41 Section 1. Indiscriminate Relief inconsistent with the Virtue of Charity 2. On the Impracticability of finding competent Sup- port for ...
... Statutes relating to Vagrants • 3. Statutes relating to the impotent Poor CHAPTER III . 21 • 34 41 Section 1. Indiscriminate Relief inconsistent with the Virtue of Charity 2. On the Impracticability of finding competent Sup- port for ...
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Page 46 - ... 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...
Page 138 - 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.
Page 46 - ... (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...
Page 48 - ... 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...
Page 144 - 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...
Page 68 - ... one shall remain in the custody of the parson, vicar, or curate, and the other two in the custody of the churchwardens...
Page 139 - 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.
Page 30 - 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.
Page 6 - ... 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...
Page 48 - 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...