The Pamphleteer, 8. kötetAbraham John Valpy A. J. Valpy., 1816 |
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6. oldal
... object to obtain . The call , on the part of the country , on this House , to go into an inquiry on the poor laws , has been general : I trust therefore , however unequal to the task , that I shall meet with indulgence proportioned to ...
... object to obtain . The call , on the part of the country , on this House , to go into an inquiry on the poor laws , has been general : I trust therefore , however unequal to the task , that I shall meet with indulgence proportioned to ...
14. oldal
... object . The wealth of the country was doubt- lessly rapidly augmented : luxury spread its baneful influence through all ranks of society . The price of labour rose , and the earnings of the working . classes were increased , though not ...
... object . The wealth of the country was doubt- lessly rapidly augmented : luxury spread its baneful influence through all ranks of society . The price of labour rose , and the earnings of the working . classes were increased , though not ...
15. oldal
... object of these receptacles seems to have been not to accommodate the needy , but to deter them from apply- ing for relief : as a preliminary every domestic comfort was to be sacrificed their little property seized for the benefit of ...
... object of these receptacles seems to have been not to accommodate the needy , but to deter them from apply- ing for relief : as a preliminary every domestic comfort was to be sacrificed their little property seized for the benefit of ...
22. oldal
... objects as might be conducive to the comfort and happiness of the laboring classes . That to this fund capitalists and property should contribute . That all ranks and classes in society should join in promo- ting a system for bettering ...
... objects as might be conducive to the comfort and happiness of the laboring classes . That to this fund capitalists and property should contribute . That all ranks and classes in society should join in promo- ting a system for bettering ...
24. oldal
... objects of distress . Rewards for good conduct would naturally form a part of a plan that aimed at elevating the situation of the great body of the peo- ple . One material vice of the old system must be avoided . Flagitious conduct or ...
... objects of distress . Rewards for good conduct would naturally form a part of a plan that aimed at elevating the situation of the great body of the peo- ple . One material vice of the old system must be avoided . Flagitious conduct or ...
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399. oldal - Ye are the salt of the earth : but if the salt have lost its savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under foot of men.
580. oldal - John. It is the curse of kings, to be attended By slaves, that take their humours for a warrant To break within the bloody house of life ; And, on the winking of authority, To understand a law ; to know the meaning Of dangerous majesty, when, perchance, it frowns More upon humour, than advis'd respect.
245. oldal - For this is not the liberty which we can hope, that no grievance ever should arise in the commonwealth ; that let no man in this world expect; but when complaints are freely heard, deeply considered, and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for...
220. oldal - For indeed none can love freedom heartily, but good men : the rest love not freedom, but licence ; which never hath more scope, or more indulgence than under tyrants.
25. oldal - it is one of the finest problems in legislation to determine what the state ought to take upon itself to direct by public wisdom, and what it ought to leave, with as little interference as possible, to individual exertion.
472. oldal - Juno, in a variety of sports, with which that period of life is so vehemendy allured; and among the rest, he was particularly captivated with beholding his image in a mirror; during his admiration of which, he was miserably torn in pieces by the Titans; who, not content with this cruelty, first boiled his members in water, and afterwards roasted them by the fire. But while they were tasting his flesh thus dressed, Jupiter, excited by the...
220. oldal - License they mean when they cry Liberty ; For who loves that, must first be wise and good...
37. oldal - The first volume of his chief work was published, in 1738, under the title of the Divine Legation of Moses demonstrated on the Principles of a Religious Deist, from the Omission of the Doctrine of a Future State of Rewards and Punishments in the Jewish Dispensation.
336. oldal - England, and, by those laws, we could not make a Christian a slave. I told him, my request was far different from that, for I desired him to make a slave a Christian. His answer was, that it was true, there was a great difference in that : but, being once a Christian, he could no more account...
29. oldal - 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...