The Poor LawMacmillan, 1881 - 163 стор. |
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able-bodied abuses administration of relief allowed almshouses amount apply arrangements asylums attendance authorities becoming chargeable Boards of Guardians called Central Board charity Church Commissioners communal condition cost destitute discretion districts duties Elberfeld enacted England English Poor Law establishment evils exercise existence fact farmers France fund German Empire Gilbert's Act giving relief Government important indigent indoor paupers indoor relief infirm inmates instance institutions interests Justices labour labouring classes large towns law of settlement less eligible magistrate matter ment moral Nassau Senior nation natural out-relief outdoor relief overseers parish persons Poor Law administration Poor Law Board Poor Law legislation poor rates poor relief poorhouse population practice present principles of Poor punishment reform regulations relieving officer remedy repression respect sick SPENCER WALPOLE spirit Sweden tion Unions vagrants vestry wages wards workhouse test
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Сторінка 16 - 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.
Сторінка 63 - Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted . . . that whereas by reason of some defects in the law poor people are not restrained from going from one parish to another, and therefore do endeavour to settle themselves in those parishes where there is the best stock, the largest commons or wastes to build cottages, and the most woods for them to burn and destroy...
Сторінка 2 - I do not call a healthy young man, cheerful in his mind, and vigorous in his arms, I cannot call such a man, poor ; I cannot pity my kind as a kind, merely because they are men. This affected pity only tends to dissatisfy them with their condition, and to teach them to seek resources where no resources are to be found, in something else than their own industry, and frugality, and sobriety.
Сторінка 2 - ... when we affect to pity, as poor, those who must labour or the world cannot exist, we are trifling with the condition of mankind. It is the common doom of man that he must eat his bread by the sweat of his brow, that is, by the sweat of his body or the sweat of his mind. If this toil was inflicted as a curse, it is as might...
Сторінка 12 - Apart from any metaphysical considerations respecting the foundation of morals or of the social union, it will be admitted to be right that human beings should help one another; and the more so, in proportion to the urgency of the need : and none needi help so urgently as one who is starving.
Сторінка 2 - ... age : but when we affect to pity as poor, those who must labour or the world cannot exist, we are trifling with the condition of mankind. It is the common doom of man that he must eat his bread by the sweat of his brow, that is, by the sweat of his body, or the sweat of his mind.
Сторінка 76 - Elizabeth directed to be employed in setting to work children and persons capable of labour, but using no daily trade, and in the necessary relief of the impotent, is applied to purposes opposed to the letter, and still more to the spirit of that law, and destructive to the morals of the most numerous class, and to the welfare of all.
Сторінка 8 - Whenever, for the purposes of government, we arrive, in any state of society, at a class so miserable as to be in want of the common necessaries of life, a new principle comes into • в action.