Poor Laws in Foreign Countries: Reports Communicated to the Local Government Board

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George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1875 - Počet stran: 482
 

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Strana 455 - ... and drugs for medicinal, sacramental, industrial, and scientific uses only. The penalty for violations of this provision with reference to intoxicants shall be a fine of not less than $25 for the first offense, and for second and subsequent offenses a fine of not less than $50 and imprisonment for not less than one month or , more than one year...
Strana 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
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 72 - The rentcharges are payable on the 1st of January and the 1st of July in each year...
Strana 4 - WHERE all the parts of this realm of England and Wales be presently with rogues, vagabonds, and sturdy beggars exceedingly pestered...
Strana 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...
Strana 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

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