Poor Laws in Foreign Countries: Reports Communicated to the Local Government BoardGeorge E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1875 - Всего страниц: 482 |
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able-bodied according almshouses amount annual applicant appointed assistance asylums authorities BAVARIA beggars begging Belgium belonging BOULOGNE Boulogne-sur-Mer bound bureaux de bienfaisance cent charge chargeable charitable institutions claim classes commission committee commune contributions cost council Denmark département dépôts de mendicité destitute directorium divisional districts domicile duty Elberfeld system elected establishments exist expenditure expenses families foreign foundations francs German Empire given Government granted hospitals indigent indoor relief infirm labour Leipzig lunatics Majesty's governor mendicity ment municipal number of paupers number of persons obligation officers orphans out-door relief overseers parish persons relieved police poor board Poor Law Board Poor Law District Poor Law Fund poor relief poor union poorhouses population préfet private charity province Prussia public relief receipt receive regulations residence revenue secours settlement sick statistics statutes SWEDEN system of poor thalers tion town vagrants visitors voluntary workhouse
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Стр. 69 - ... increased and increasing amount of the sums raised for their " relief, that this system is perpetually encouraging and increasing " the amount of misery it was designed to alleviate, creating at the " same time an unlimited demand on funds which it cannot " augment ; and as every system of relief founded on compulsory " enactments must be divested of the character of benevolence, so it
Стр. 43 - It was our determined principle to reduce this support lower than what any industrious man or woman in such circumstances could earn; for if the manner in which relief is given is not a spur to industry, it becomes undoubtedly a premium to sloth and profligacy.
Стр. 4 - Vagabond above the age of fourteen years shall be adjudged to be grievously whipped and burned through the Gristle of the right Ear with a hot Iron of the Compass of an Inch, unless some credible Person will take him into Service for a Year.
Стр. 70 - ... of gratitude, and not unfrequently engenders dispositions and habits calculated to separate rather than unite the interests of the higher and lower orders of the community ; even the obligations of natural affection are no longer left to their own impulse, but the mutual support of the nearest relations has been actually enjoined by a positive law, which the authority of magistrates is continually required to enforce.
Стр. 70 - ... people, who have been reduced to the degradation of a dependence upon parochial support; while the rest of the community, including the most industrious class, has been oppressed by a weight of contribution taken from those very means which would otherwise have been applied more beneficially to the supply of employment.
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Стр. 69 - ... been made to rest. By diminishing this natural impulse by which men are instigated to industry and good conduct, by superseding the necessity of providing in the season of health and vigour for the wants of sickness and old age, and by making poverty and misery the conditions on which relief is to be obtained, your Committee cannot but fear, from a reference to the increased numbers of the poor, and increased and increasing amount of the sums raised for their relief, that this system is perpetually...
Стр. 139 - Greek poetry, as if the offending participle were more to be condemned in the case of the latter than in that of the former. The present participle at any rate is known to be much more idiomatic in Greek than in Latin. Horn, says in one of his