 | William Cobbett - Church property - 1827 - 266 pages
...day, and also to all the parents of such persons. In the way of justification of this horrid proposal, he says, that the man wanting relief after this, "...and that, whatever might be their state of distress, " they-had no claim on society for the smallest portion of food" \ I need hardly say, that this came... | |
 | William Cobbett - Reformation - 1829 - 460 pages
...day, and also to all the parents of such persons. In the way of justification of this horrid proposal, he says, that the man wanting relief after this, "should...be their state of distress, they " had no claim on sou ciety for the smallest portion of food "! I need hardly say, that this came from the pen of a Church... | |
 | Harry Hawthorn (pseud.) - London (England) - 1829 - 178 pages
...punishment of severe want: all parish assistance shall be rigidly ' denied him. HE should be taught that the laws of nature had ' doomed him and his family to starve ; that HE had no claim ' on society for the smallest portion of food ; that if HE and his 'family were... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1834 - 380 pages
...day, and also to all the parenls of such persons. In the way of justification of this horrid proposal, he says, that the man wanting relief after this, "...had doomed him and his family to starve;" and that, :ever might be their state of distress, they " had no i on society for the smallest portion of food!"... | |
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he says, that the man wanting relief after this, " should be left to the punishment of nature"; that he should be told that the " laws of nature had doomed him and his family to starve ;" and that, whatever might be their state of distress, " they had... 