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... importance . It was my hope and intention to go to press , with some such book as the present , in 1851 ; and , in March and April of that year , I wrote several of the chapters now printed . But ill health suspended my labours . I was ...
... importance . It was my hope and intention to go to press , with some such book as the present , in 1851 ; and , in March and April of that year , I wrote several of the chapters now printed . But ill health suspended my labours . I was ...
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... importance . It was my hope and intention to go to press , with some such book as the present , in 1851 ; and , in March and April of that year , I wrote several of the chapters now printed . But ill health suspended my labours . I was ...
... importance . It was my hope and intention to go to press , with some such book as the present , in 1851 ; and , in March and April of that year , I wrote several of the chapters now printed . But ill health suspended my labours . I was ...
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... important to inquire , whether the law of settlement and removal of the poor does not exercise an injurious influence on the physical and moral condition of the working classes , especially of labourers in agriculture ; and whether the ...
... important to inquire , whether the law of settlement and removal of the poor does not exercise an injurious influence on the physical and moral condition of the working classes , especially of labourers in agriculture ; and whether the ...
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... Important as it is to know the amount of money expended yearly in relieving the poor , it is not less important to de- termine the number of indigent persons among whom the vast yearly sum is divided . I will now endeavour to show what ...
... Important as it is to know the amount of money expended yearly in relieving the poor , it is not less important to de- termine the number of indigent persons among whom the vast yearly sum is divided . I will now endeavour to show what ...
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... important to ascertain what proportion , on the average , have been able - bodied . The number of able - bodied adult paupers , -poor persons both willing and physically able to work , but unable to obtain employment so as to earn their ...
... important to ascertain what proportion , on the average , have been able - bodied . The number of able - bodied adult paupers , -poor persons both willing and physically able to work , but unable to obtain employment so as to earn their ...
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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