 | 1836 - 444 Seiten
...for the support of the poor. Under all these obligations, are the poor modest, humble, and thankful ? On the contrary, I affirm that there is no country in the world in which the poor are more idle, dissolute, drunken, and insolent. The day you passed that Act, you took away from before their eyes... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1844 - 548 Seiten
...thankful ? And do they use their best endeavours to maintain themselves, and lighten our shoulders of this burden? On the contrary, I affirm, that there...country in the world in which the poor are more idle, dissolute, drunken, and insolent. The day you passed that act, you took away from before their eyes... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1844 - 600 Seiten
...they use their best endeavours to maintain themselves, and lighten our shoulders of this burthen ? On the contrary, I affirm, that there is no country in the world in which the poor are more idle, dissolute, drunken, and insolent. The day you passed that act, you took away from before their eyes... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Day - 1858 - 490 Seiten
...1,000 of the population. deavours to maintain themselves and lighten our shoulders of the burthen ? On the contrary, I affirm that there is no country in the world in which the poor are more idle, dissolute, drunken, and insolent."* Perhaps the views of this eminent man on. English paupers and pauperism,... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1858 - 780 Seiten
...the voluntary Voluntary failure of the industrial and affluent classes to maintain Ireland" and them. There is no country in the world in which the poor are more kind and humane to each other. Previous amount. to tue introduction of the Poor Laws in 1837, the destitute,... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1859 - 618 Seiten
...they use their best endeavours to maintain themselves, and lighten our shoulders of this burthen ? On the contrary, I affirm that there is no country in the world in which the poor are more idle, dissolute, drunken, and insolent. The day you passed that act, you took away from before their eyes... | |
 | England - 1865 - 216 Seiten
...of his gentle wife, or shares the merry gambols of his little ones. I think, too, we may venture to affirm that there is no country in the world in which the sacredness of conjugal and filial relations is more fully recognised and their obligations more generally... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - 1867 - 1204 Seiten
...by the generous ministrations of their poor neighbours, of whom even the prejudiced Alison testifies that ' there is no country in the world in which the poor are more kind and humane to each other.' ' Previous to the introduction of the Poor laws in 1837,' he adds,... | |
 | Great Britain. Foreign Office, Great Britain. Local Government Board - 1875 - 510 Seiten
...obligations, are the poor modest, " humble, thankful, industrious? On the contrary, it may be '* affirmed that there is no country in the world in which the " poor are more idle, dissolute, drunken, and insolent. The day " the Parliament passed that law it took away from before... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1876 - 446 Seiten
...out of the country by the voluntary failure of the industrial and affluent classes to maintain them. There is no country in the world in which the poor are more kind and humane to each other. Previous to the introduction of the Poor Laws in 1837, the destitute,... | |
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I affirm that there is no country in the world in which the poor are more idle, dissolute, drunken, and insolent. The day you passed that act you took away from before their eyes the greatest of all inducements to industry, frugality, and sobriety, by... 
