A Plan for the general improvement of the state of the poor of IrelandE. Barber, 1816 - 158 страници |
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Страница 83 - Ah little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround; They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste; Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.
Страница 116 - In years of plenty many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feast and riot for many days; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other the like public occasions, they are to be seen both men and women perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together.
Страница 25 - We have applied our efforts to the framing of a System, which, whilst it shall afford the opportunities of Education to every description of the lower classes of the People, may at the same time by keeping clear of all interference with the particular Religious Tenets of any, induce the whole to receive its benefits as one undivided Body, under one and the same System, and in the same Establishments.
Страница 100 - Although your committee have not been instructed to examine the state of education beyond the metropolis, they have, in addition to what has appeared in evidence, received communications which show the necessity of Parliament as speedily as possible instituting an inquiry into the management of charitable donations and other funds for the instruction of the poor of this country, and into the state of their education generally. And your committee are of opinion that the most effectual, as well as...
Страница 138 - ... him that he had not, that year, spent the whole of his income, requesting that if he knew of any particular cases claiming charitable relief, he would be glad to be informed. His friend communicated to him the distressing situation of a considerable number of persons confined in a certain prison for small debts. What did this humane and generous philanthropist do on this representation ? He cleared the whole of their debts. He swept this direful mansion of all its miserable tenants. He opened...
Страница 137 - A lady applied to him on behalf of an orphan. After he had given liberally, she said, ' When he is old enough, I will teach him to name and thank his benefactor.' ' Stop (said the good man), thou art mistaken — we do not thank the clouds for the rain. Teach him to look higher, and thank Him who giveth both the clouds and the rain.
Страница 22 - An Act to amend certain Acts in force in Ireland in relation to Appeals from Decrees and Dismisses on Civil Bills in the County of Dublin and County of the City of Dublin.
Страница 116 - He goes on to say, that no magistrate ever could discover that they had ever been baptized, or in what way one in a hundred went out of the world. He accuses them as frequently guilty of robbery, and sometimes of murder :
Страница 116 - ... yet in all times there have been about one hundred thousand of those vagabonds, who have lived without any regard or subjection either to the laws of the land, or even those of God and nature...
Страница 31 - Bible in every church, for the minister and for the clerk, it is added, that " where all or the most part of the people are Irish, they shall provide also the said books in the Irish tongue, so soon as they may be had. The charge of these Irish books being to be borne also, wholly by the parish.