The measure is assuredly one of the mildest which we can adopt if we retreat at all from the present system. It may, indeed, be deemed too little of a reform, and censured as " a solecism against the simple " and powerful policies of nature;" inasmuch... A Treatise Upon the Poor Laws - Side 55av Thomas Peregrine Courtenay - 1818 - 168 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
| 1818 - 598 sider
...the child from the parent, where the parent undertakes to maintain it; or, in all cases, to niohibit the public authorities, from assisting the parent...to say, that no man's child shall starve ; — it ig certainly too much, that it should also provide that the child shall be subsisted in the mode most... | |
| 1819 - 630 sider
...we can adopt if we retreat at all from the present system. It may, indeed, be deemed too little of H reform, and censured as " a solecism against the simple...undertaking to feed all the children of the poor. fulfilled their natural duties towards it. To enable them to do this, by au adequate addition to their... | |
| Robert Southey - 1832 - 452 sider
...of a reform, and censured as " a solecism ' against the simple and powerful policies of na' ture ;" inasmuch as it involves, equally with the ' present...that ' it should also provide that the child shall be sub' sisted in the mode most agreeable to the parents, ' and so that no more inconvenience shall be... | |
| Robert Southey - 1832 - 482 sider
...of a reform, and censured as " a solecism ' against the simple and powerful policies of na* ture ;" inasmuch as it involves, equally with the * present...that * it should also provide that the child shall be sub• ' eisled in the mode most agreeable to the parents, ' and so that no more inconvenience shall... | |
| Robert Southey - 1832 - 464 sider
...of a reform, and censured as " a solecism ' against the simple and powerful policies of na' ture;" inasmuch as it involves, equally with the ' present...much for the law to say, that no man's ' child shall starve;—it is certainly too much, that ' it should also provide that the child shall be sub' sisted... | |
| Donald Rutherford - 1999 - 526 sider
...whether, where that independence has been destroyed, and the virtuous feeling greatly endangered,—where the parent is unable to feed his child and incapable...much for the law to say, that no man's child shall starve;—it is certainly too much, that it should also provide that the child shall be subsisted in... | |
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