Pauperism and the poor laws: lects delivered in 1869-70, with kindred papers, ed. by T. Ivory |
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Страница 6 - If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone ? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent ? or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion ? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him ? " And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb.
Страница 17 - There children dwell who know no parents' care; Parents, who know no children's love, dwell there! Heart-broken matrons on their joyless bed, Forsaken wives, and mothers never wed ; Dejected widows with unheeded tears, And crippled age with more than childhood fears; The lame, the blind, and, far the happiest they ! The moping idiot, and the madman gay.
Страница 20 - Many murders have been discovered among them; and they are not only a most unspeakable oppression to poor tenants (who if they give not bread, or some kind of provision to perhaps forty such villains in one day, are sure to be insulted by them) but they rob many poor people who live in houses distant from any neighbourhood. In years of plenty...
Страница 20 - These are not only no way advantageous, but a very grievous burden to so poor a country. And though the number of them be perhaps double to what it was formerly, by reason of...
Страница 6 - But if any provide not for his own, and especially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Страница 8 - Now them that are such we command and exhort, by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
Страница 6 - And all that believed were together, and had all things common ; and sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.
Страница 21 - It is a prison with a milder name, Which few inhabit without dread or shame. Be it agreed the poor who hither come Partake of plenty, seldom found at home ; That airy rooms and decent beds are meant To give the poor by day by night content ; That none are frightened, once admitted here, By the stern looks of lordly overseer : Grant that the guardians of the...
Страница 8 - He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. Every man according as he purposeth in his heart so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity : for God loveth a cheerful giver.
Страница 28 - We find, on the one hand, that there is scarcely one statute connected with the administration of public relief which has produced the effect designed by the legislature, and that the majority of them have created new evils, and aggravated those which they were intended to prevent."* I refer rather to confessions made by statesmen, and by State-departments.