Lending a hand: or, Help for the working classes, by the author of 'Doing and suffering'.1866 |
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Page 87 - If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain; If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?
Page 218 - ... taboo with that enlightened strictness, that the ugly South Sea gods in the British Museum might have supposed themselves at home again. Nothing to see but streets, streets, streets. Nothing to breathe but streets, streets, streets. Nothing to change the brooding mind, or raise it up. Nothing for the spent toiler to do, but to compare the monotony of his seventh day with the monotony of his six days, think what a weary life he led, and make the best of it — or the worst, according to the probabilities.
Page 165 - Melancholy streets in a penitential garb of soot, steeped the souls of the people who were condemned to look at them out of windows, in dire despondency.
Page 165 - Everything was bolted and barred that could by possibility furnish relief to an overworked people. No pictures, no unfamiliar animals, no rare plants or flowers, no natural or artificial wonders of the ancient world — all taboo with that enlightened strictness, that the ugly South-Sea gods in the British Museum might have supposed themselves at home again.
Page 207 - Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. 16 Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
Page 328 - The fundamental principle with respect to the legal relief of the poor is, that the condition of the pauper ought to be, on the whole, less eligible than that of the independent labourer.
Page 370 - ... of the local authority, and also to the poor law relieving officer of the union or parish in which the common lodging-house is situated.
Page 260 - All have their proper parts assigned to them, together with their proper stations ; and all are to do their duty in that state of life unto which it hath pleased God to call them.
Page 316 - That is found wandering and not having any Home or settled Place of Abode, or proper Guardianship, or visible Means of Subsistence; That is found destitute, either being an Orphan or having a surviving Parent who is undergoing Penal Servitude or Imprisonment; That frequents the Company of reputed Thieves...
Page 275 - God, very much, perhaps all, of the duties of my later life to her precepts and her prayers. " I know not where she was buried. She died, I know, in London ; and I may safely say that I have ever cherished her memory with the deepest gratitude and affection. She was a ' special Providence