A Treatise on Indigence: Exhibiting a General View of the National Resources for Productive LabourJ. Hatchard, 1806 - 302 sider |
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Side 190 - Forasmuch as many poor persons, chargeable to the parish or place where they live, merely for want of work, would, in any other place where sufficient employment is to be had, maintain themselves and families...
Side 148 - Let it not be conceived for a moment, that it is the object of the author to recommend a system of education for the poor that shall pass the bounds of their condition in society. Nothing is aimed at beyond what is necessary to constitute a channel to religious and moral instruction. To exceed that point would be Utopian, impolitic, and dangerous, since it would confound the ranks of society, upon which the general happiness of the lower orders, no less than that of those in more elevated stations,...
Side 8 - It is the source of wealth, since without poverty there could be no labour; there could be no riches, no refinement, no comfort, and no benefit to those who may be possessed of wealth; inasmuch as without a large proportion of poverty, surplus labour could never be rendered productive in procuring either the conveniences or luxuries of life ... It is indigence, therefore, and not poverty, which constitutes the chief burthen to which civil society is exposed.
Side 190 - ... they are for the most part confined to live in their own parishes, and not permitted to inhabit elsewhere, though their labour is wanted in many other places, where the increase of manufactures would employ more hands.
Side 67 - If in the course of this term the slave absented himself for fourteen days, he was to be marked with a hot iron on the forehead or the ball of the cheek, and adjudged to be a slave to his said master for ever: if he ran away a second time, he was to suffer death as a felon. Masters were...
Side 174 - ... British islands from those of a different growth, was supposed to be so great, that an apprehension was entertained that the prohibition to re-export the former would be easily evaded and illusory, while the latter remained free. This apprehension, however, it is believed, was carried too far ; as, on a minute examination of the subject it will be found, that our laws relative to drawback, with a few analogous provisions in addition, can be made sufficiently to discriminate and identify, on re-exportation,...
Side 234 - Necessity, in vulgar life, is known to be one of the chief incitements to vice and depravity. From a state of indigence, wretchedness and despair, the transition is easy to criminal offences.
Side 8 - But it may happen, and does sometimes happen in civil life, that a man may have ability to labour, and cannot obtain it. He may have labour in his possession, without being able to dispose of it. The great desideratum, therefore, is to prop up poverty by judicious arrangements at those critical periods when it is in danger of descending into indigence.
Side 7 - ... there could be no riches, since riches are the offspring of labour, while labour can exist only from a state of poverty. Poverty is that state and condition in society where the individual has no surplus labour in store ; or, in other words, no property or means of subsistence but what is derived from the constant exercise of industry in the various occupations of life. Poverty is, therefore a most necessary and indispensable ingredient in society without which nations and communities could not...
Side 142 - Species of instruction which is to elevate them above the rank they are destined to hold in society, but merely a sufficient portion to give their minds a right bias ; a strong sense of religion and moral honesty ;. a horror of vice, and a love of virtue, sobriety, and industry ; a disposition to be satisfied with the'ir lot ; and a proper sense of loyalty and subordination, as the strongest barrier that can be raised against vice .and idleness, the...