Prussia and the poor; or, Observations upon the systematized relief of the poor at Elberfeld, in contrast with that of England1879 |
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Página xi
... lived for some time past with a man named George Ridley , in the Forth Banks , that they were very badly off , and that Ridley had nothing to support himself , except what he got by going about playing on a concertina . - George Ridley ...
... lived for some time past with a man named George Ridley , in the Forth Banks , that they were very badly off , and that Ridley had nothing to support himself , except what he got by going about playing on a concertina . - George Ridley ...
Página 30
... lived some miles away , drove up to the cottage the next day with the hope of finding his patient somewhat the better for his culinary prescription . But the poor young man is now fast sinking from exhaustion ; yet such is the kindness ...
... lived some miles away , drove up to the cottage the next day with the hope of finding his patient somewhat the better for his culinary prescription . But the poor young man is now fast sinking from exhaustion ; yet such is the kindness ...
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... lived , and to which he was constantly led . This ill - fated man had committed suicide by hanging himself . The preacher was at the time temporarily undertaking the duties of the parish for the late Reverend Timothy Gibson , at that ...
... lived , and to which he was constantly led . This ill - fated man had committed suicide by hanging himself . The preacher was at the time temporarily undertaking the duties of the parish for the late Reverend Timothy Gibson , at that ...
Página 45
... lived too long for them by hanging himself . Again , the clergyman has a wife ; she , too , makes domiciliary visits . Widows not a few are found within the parish . One of these who has just entered upon her widowhood , when the Union ...
... lived too long for them by hanging himself . Again , the clergyman has a wife ; she , too , makes domiciliary visits . Widows not a few are found within the parish . One of these who has just entered upon her widowhood , when the Union ...
Página 59
... lived since the death of her husband by selling matches at a halfpenny a box . She sometimes took two days to sell six boxes . Four persons - two families - had occupied the one little room , everything in which could not be worth 2s ...
... lived since the death of her husband by selling matches at a halfpenny a box . She sometimes took two days to sell six boxes . Four persons - two families - had occupied the one little room , everything in which could not be worth 2s ...
Términos y frases comunes
accelerated by want afflicted aged Alderman amongst appear applied assistance Bastilles Bethnal Green body bread brethren called cause charity Chartism Christian Church clergyman CORONER deaths from starvation DEATHS FROM STARVATION-CONTINUED deceased deserving poor destitute discovered distressed dread duty Elberfeld Elberfeld system emaciated England exposure FACTS IN EVIDENCE Guardians heart Hibbs Holy Orders House Humphries inquest John Blake John Ruskin labour letter London Lord Mammon misery Moran nation never nourishment oppressed parish pauper persons Poor Law Amendment Poor Law Board poverty preacher preaching prophet Prussia Relieving Officer remarks rendered Report Romsey Serjeant's Inn shew shilling Sir Robert Society soul starving Street suffering tender mercies things thou Timothy Daly tion Union Workhouse unto utterances verdict wages Walthew want of food want of proper week whilst widow wife words Workhouse writer
Pasajes populares
Página xviii - Shall I not visit for these things? Saith the Lord: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Página x - If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain; If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?
Página 90 - Trust ye not in lying words, saying: — "The temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord are these.
Página v - Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
Página 117 - Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr!
Página iv - Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth : and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
Página xi - Is it such a fast that I have chosen ? a day for a man to afflict his soul ? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him ? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
Página iii - Yet they seek Me daily, and delight to know My ways, as a nation that did righteousness,, and forsook not the ordinance of their God : they ask of Me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.
Página 115 - The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right. But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.
Página ix - The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream : and he that hath my word let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat ? saith the Lord. Is not my word like as a fire ? saith the Lord ; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces ? Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the Lord, that steal my words, every one from his neighbour.