The Life of Sir Thomas Bernard, Baronet

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J. Murray, 1819 - 190 sider

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Side 130 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain; to take the...
Side 9 - FORTUNE, they sink into a situation worse than that of being gratuitously maintained, ly the poor. They become PAUPERS of an elevated and distinguished class ; in no way personally contributing to the general stock, but subsisting upon the labour of the industrious cottager; — and whenever Providence thinks fit to remove such a character, whether in high or in low life, whether rich or poor, the community is relieved from an useless burthen.
Side 82 - Institution, established in 1805 'to encourage and reward the talents of the artists of the United Kingdom', and later still of the Society of British Artists (1823); which was the way to the possible chances of a rich patron. The commercial possibilities of acting as intermediary between artist and purchaser were not exploited by a new, objurgated tribe of picture dealers until early in Victoria's reign. One-man...
Side 10 - ... by an indissoluble tie, and by a common interest, to their country, not only as the sanctuary of liberty, but as an asylum, where happiness and domestic comforts are diffused, with a liberal and equal hand, through every class of society.
Side 13 - The account of this classification of the alphabet was printed in the third volume of the Reports of the Society for Bettering the Condition of the Poor.
Side 8 - Is heaven tremendous in its frowns ? Most sure; And in its favours formidable too: Its favours here are trials, not rewards; A call to duty, not discharge from care ; And should alarm us full as much as woes...
Side 17 - To remove the difficulties attending parochial relief, and the discouragement of industry and economy, by the present mode of distributing it ; to correct the abuses of workhouses ; and to assist the poor in placing out their children in the world...
Side 158 - ... experiments on parochial manufactures, on farming the poor, on increasing the poor's rate, on the patronage of sentimental beggars, and the establishment of incorporated workhouses: — Let us now try the influence of religious motive, the consequence of melioration of character, and the effect of improvement of condition. Let us endeavour to operate by individual kindness and encouragement, by the prospect of acquiring property, and by every other incitement to industry and prudence; and we...
Side 158 - ... seeking his own happiness; but as upon works of art and mere mechanism, where the greatest momentum is to be acquired when the machinery is most complicated, and the principles of action most involved. We have made repeated experiments on parochial manufactures, on farming the poor, on increasing the poor's rate, on the patronage of sentimental beggars, and the establishment of incorporated workhouses: — Let us now try the influence of religious motive, the consequence of melioration of character,...
Side 42 - Sir Thomas Bernard, Baronet, who was for some years Treasurer of the Hospital, writes as follows in 1803*: — " The preserving and educating so many children, which without the Foundling Hospital would have been lost to that society of which they are calculated to become useful members, is certainly a great and public benefit. The adoption of a helpless unprotected infant, the watching over its progress to maturity, and...

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