 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1832 - 644 pages
...moral evil. The moral havoc has indeed been complete. The honesty of the labourers, their self-respect, their value for their character as workmen, all hope...in the condition of the poor deserves the name of a wise and statesmanlike measure, which is not of a nature sufficiently comprehensive to offer some promise... | |
 | Richard Jones - Human geography - 1831 - 466 pages
...of what is reasonable and unreasonable, of what is right and wrong, perverted? The fact is, that '0 there had been for some time spreading through this...been undermined and impaired, or utterly destroyed. 8001 L manlike measure, which is not of a nature suffiChap. vii. Sect. 8. 1 ciently comprehensive,... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1831 - 732 pages
...introduced by the Poor Laws. He says very truly, "The honesty of the labourers, their self-respect, their value for their character as workmen, all hope...been undermined and impaired, or utterly destroyed." — p. 817. In remedy of such a system he proposes the plan of allotments, and says, that if the plan... | |
 | English essays - 1831 - 628 pages
...introduced by the Poor Laws. He says very truly, " The honesty of the labourers, their self-respect, their value for their character as workmen, all hope...their condition in life by good conduct, industry, ii'ğl prudence ; their sense of their mutual duties and claims, as parents and children ; all feelings... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1832 - 650 pages
...moral evil. The moral havoc has indeed been complete. The honesty of the labourers, their self-respect, their value for their character as workmen, all hope...in the condition of the poor deserves the name of a wise and statesmanlike measure, which is not of a nature sufficiently comprehensive to offer some promise... | |
 | Thomas Kerchever Arnold - 1837 - 256 pages
...has indeed been complete. The honesty of the labourers, their self-respect, their value for then - character as workmen, all hope of bettering their...mutual duties and claims as parents and children, all feeling and habits, in short, that contribute to make men good citizens and good men, have been undermined... | |
 | 1844 - 1066 pages
...Rent. To this passage we now anxiously request the attention of our readers:— " No remedy for the evils in the condition of the poor deserves the name of a wise and statesmanlike measure, which is not of a nature sufficiently comprehensive to offer some promise... | |
 | Terry Peach - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 370 pages
...moral evil. The moral havoc has indeed been complete. The honesty of the labourers, their self-respect, their value for their character as workmen, all hope...in the condition of the poor deserves the name of a wise and statesmanlike measure, which is not of a nature sufficiently comprehensive to offer some promise... | |
 | Laura J. Snyder - Science - 2010 - 397 pages
..."bad laws" and "bad management," Jones believed, "the honesty of the labourers, their self-respect, their value for their character as workmen, all hope...citizens, and good men, have been undermined and impaired, and utterly destroyed." 139 Yet Jones strongly rejected the workhouse requirement. Any new plan for... | |
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The honesty of the labourers, their self-respect, their value for their character as workmen, all hope of bettering their condition in life by good conduct, industry, and prudence ; their sense of their mutual duties and claims as parents and children,... 