The Principle of the English Poor Laws: Illustrated and Defended, by an Historical View of Indigence in Civil Society ... to which are Added Observations on the State of the Indigent Poor in Ireland, and the Existing Institutions for Their Relief |
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... direct voluntary charity , and the concur- rence of unlicensed mendicity , resolve themselves into a classification , which has taken place nearly in the following order : Migration : Colonization : Agrarian Laws : Domestic Slavery ...
... direct voluntary charity , and the concur- rence of unlicensed mendicity , resolve themselves into a classification , which has taken place nearly in the following order : Migration : Colonization : Agrarian Laws : Domestic Slavery ...
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... direct taxation , that of a money payment deducted from annual revenue . Its ob- ject was to provide discriminate relief by the leading divisions of the Act . The moral feeling of mankind is in favour of relief of the indigent ; this ...
... direct taxation , that of a money payment deducted from annual revenue . Its ob- ject was to provide discriminate relief by the leading divisions of the Act . The moral feeling of mankind is in favour of relief of the indigent ; this ...
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... direct view of thereby obtaining a weekly allowance , or at least on reli- ance in that kind of resource in time of need . Nor can it be denied but that such an effect seems very naturally to follow from the compulsory nature of the ...
... direct view of thereby obtaining a weekly allowance , or at least on reli- ance in that kind of resource in time of need . Nor can it be denied but that such an effect seems very naturally to follow from the compulsory nature of the ...
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... direct or indi- rect taxation , that to which I consider the poor as having a right , and which I have placed last in the order of classification at the end of the first part of this Essay , although the funds them- See Muller's ...
... direct or indi- rect taxation , that to which I consider the poor as having a right , and which I have placed last in the order of classification at the end of the first part of this Essay , although the funds them- See Muller's ...
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... direct contradiction to the abstract principle laid down by the Legislative Assembly in a former page , " that the public relief for indi- gence is best derived from local and municipal funds , locally applied . " I believe too that it ...
... direct contradiction to the abstract principle laid down by the Legislative Assembly in a former page , " that the public relief for indi- gence is best derived from local and municipal funds , locally applied . " I believe too that it ...
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