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... duty and by necessity to take care that its whole population shall have such an educa- tion as promises to render them peaceable and orderly , and to fit them for the intelligent discharge of their functions as members of a free state ...
... duty and by necessity to take care that its whole population shall have such an educa- tion as promises to render them peaceable and orderly , and to fit them for the intelligent discharge of their functions as members of a free state ...
Page 30
... duty of the State , which has been so long and so sadly neglected . It is a cheering fact that men of different parties , and of different religious views , who have entered into con- troversy as to the mode in which the duty shall be ...
... duty of the State , which has been so long and so sadly neglected . It is a cheering fact that men of different parties , and of different religious views , who have entered into con- troversy as to the mode in which the duty shall be ...
Page 31
... duty , when such is the intellectual , moral , and religious condition of a numerous class of its children . The Pagans of the ancient world admitted the existence of this duty ; and it has been justly observed , that " the philosophers ...
... duty , when such is the intellectual , moral , and religious condition of a numerous class of its children . The Pagans of the ancient world admitted the existence of this duty ; and it has been justly observed , that " the philosophers ...
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... duty to their fellow - citizens , as well as by continued exertions of judicious benevolence , in erecting healthy buildings for the habitation of the industrious poor , that further and more rapid progress may be made in the direction ...
... duty to their fellow - citizens , as well as by continued exertions of judicious benevolence , in erecting healthy buildings for the habitation of the industrious poor , that further and more rapid progress may be made in the direction ...
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... duty , as the support of the old . The parish officers are very frequently trustees of the educational as well as of the pauper fund thus created ; and the children of the poor are usually the peculiar objects of the founder's intended ...
... duty , as the support of the old . The parish officers are very frequently trustees of the educational as well as of the pauper fund thus created ; and the children of the poor are usually the peculiar objects of the founder's intended ...
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25th March administration agricultural counties agricultural labourer alms amount Annual appears average number bishop century chargeable charity Charles II Church classes clergy cloth condition cottages destitution Dorset Edition England and Wales Engravings evils existing expended half-year Henry VIII History houses impotent poor In-door increase inhabitants JANE MARCET justices justices of peace labour Lady-day land landowners law of settlement legislation London Lord lunatic ment metropolis morocco nearly number of paupers number of persons order of removal out-door relief overseers parish parliament parochial paupers relieved persons relieved Poor Law Board Poor Law Commissioners poor persons poor-rate population Post 8vo present proportion provision quarter ratepayers receiving relief reign rental repeal Report residence respect serf settlement and removal Stafford West statute of Charles statute of Elizabeth THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY towns union vagrant villein whole number Woodcuts workhouses Worksop