The Quarterly Review, Volume 19William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1819 - English literature |
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Page 95
... committee were adopted in some parish where the circum- stances should be favourable to its adoption , and that instead of relieving poor families by an allowance for the maintenance of their children , it were determined that the ...
... committee were adopted in some parish where the circum- stances should be favourable to its adoption , and that instead of relieving poor families by an allowance for the maintenance of their children , it were determined that the ...
Page 101
... Committee , whether he thought that limiting the number of public - houses in parishes gene- rally , would be a measure that would tend to diminish the poor- rates . This gentleman , whose opinion is entitled to great weight , replied ...
... Committee , whether he thought that limiting the number of public - houses in parishes gene- rally , would be a measure that would tend to diminish the poor- rates . This gentleman , whose opinion is entitled to great weight , replied ...
Page 103
... Committee upon Mendicity , is to prop up poverty , and to prevent persons falling into indigence . Indigence is a state wherein a person is unable to maintain himself by his labour : poverty is that state where a man's manual labour ...
... Committee upon Mendicity , is to prop up poverty , and to prevent persons falling into indigence . Indigence is a state wherein a person is unable to maintain himself by his labour : poverty is that state where a man's manual labour ...
Page 104
... Committee . A school was established a few years ago at Hoxton , where there were a great number of very depraved poor ; since that time , the moral improvement in the neighbourhood has been visible to all the inhabitants , and it is ...
... Committee . A school was established a few years ago at Hoxton , where there were a great number of very depraved poor ; since that time , the moral improvement in the neighbourhood has been visible to all the inhabitants , and it is ...
Page 105
... Committee as positive proof of the good resulting from such institutions . If so much has been effected under circumstances the most unfa- vourable , the good effect may be calculated upon with certainty in places where there is no ...
... Committee as positive proof of the good resulting from such institutions . If so much has been effected under circumstances the most unfa- vourable , the good effect may be calculated upon with certainty in places where there is no ...
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