On the Sufficiency of the Parochial System: Without a Poor Rate, for the Right Management of the Poor |
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... condition in life are often spoken of as artificial . But in truth they are most thoroughly natural ; and it would require the violence of a perpetual stress on the spontane- ous tendencies of every society in the world to repress or ...
... condition in life are often spoken of as artificial . But in truth they are most thoroughly natural ; and it would require the violence of a perpetual stress on the spontane- ous tendencies of every society in the world to repress or ...
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... condition of labourers , by its sure influence on the wages of labour . Its moral bene- fits , are palpable both as a counteractive to dissi- pation and connected with the high qualities of foresight sobriety and self - command ; and ...
... condition of labourers , by its sure influence on the wages of labour . Its moral bene- fits , are palpable both as a counteractive to dissi- pation and connected with the high qualities of foresight sobriety and self - command ; and ...
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... condition , or that Providence has assigned to them an inferior place in the scale of income or society to ourselves . They are fully our equals in all the essential characteristics of humanity ; and more especially , on the subject of ...
... condition , or that Providence has assigned to them an inferior place in the scale of income or society to ourselves . They are fully our equals in all the essential characteristics of humanity ; and more especially , on the subject of ...
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... condition of the families who occupy his own home- walk - approximating almost to certainty regarding the effect of his operations — either as to the risk of evil , or the real good that might be done by them . Surely he who gives of ...
... condition of the families who occupy his own home- walk - approximating almost to certainty regarding the effect of his operations — either as to the risk of evil , or the real good that might be done by them . Surely he who gives of ...
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... condition , we should rather that the management of the former than that the opulence of the latter were brought to bear upon them . It was our own experience in the poorest and most populous parish of Glasgow , that the applications ...
... condition , we should rather that the management of the former than that the opulence of the latter were brought to bear upon them . It was our own experience in the poorest and most populous parish of Glasgow , that the applications ...
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Page 169 - Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost, and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.
Page 171 - Neither did we eat any man's bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you: 9 Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.
Page 173 - But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Page 69 - Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
Page 171 - For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
Page 314 - These are not only no way advantageous, but a very grievous burden to so poor a country. And though the number of them be perhaps double to what it was formerly, by reason of this...
Page 172 - Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
Page 315 - Many murders have been discovered among them ; and they are not only 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.
Page 315 - ... vagabonds, who have lived without any regard or subjection either to the laws of the land, or even those of God and nature; fathers incestuously accompanying with their own daughters, the son with the mother, and the brother with the sister.
Page 315 - In years of plenty many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feast and riot for many days; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other the like public occasions, they are to be seen both men and women perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together.