The Christian and Civic Economy of Large Towns, المجلد 2Chalmers & Collins, 1823 |
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administration affirm altogether amount applications assessment benevolence better burden character Christian circumstances civic classes comfort compulsory provision Darlaston demand dispensations distinct distress district economy effect elder England evil existing pauperism expenditure expense experience families feel former fund Gilbert's Act Glasgow Gorbals gratuitous greatly habits human indigence influence instances institution John's Kirk-Session labour land law of pauperism legal charity length liberality lower orders means ment Minchinhampton minister mischief moral nature necessity neighbours never old pauperism operation outset overseers parish of St paro parochial perism philanthropist plebeian Poor Laws poor rate population present principle principle of locality public charity reduced reformation relief rendered revenue rishes Sabbath school Scotland select vestry Session society spirit Spitalfields Stockport subscription sure sympathy thing THOMAS CHALMERS tion Town Hospital trial parish truth virtue wherewith whole wont workhouse
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الصفحة 151 - ... the third, whether he is a hearer in any dissenting place of worship, and whether its session will contribute to his relief. And if after these previous inquiries it be found that further relief is necessary, then there must be a strict ascertainment of his term of residence in Glasgow, and whether he be yet on the funds of the Town Hospital, or is obtaining relief from any other parish. If upon all these points being ascertained the deacon of the proportion where he resides still conceives him...
الصفحة 58 - ... would have gone plentifully forth among the abodes of the destitute. We know not how a more freezing arrest can be laid on the current of benevolence, than when it is met in the tone of a rightful, and perhaps indignant demand for that wherewith it was ready, on its own proper impulse, to pour refreshment and relief over the whole field of ascertained wretchedness. There is a mighty difference of effect between an imperative and an imploring application. The one calls out the jealousy of our...
الصفحة 39 - And here it may not be out of place to remark, how much it serves to divide and to weaken the force of popular violence, when the vast and overgrown city is broken down into separate parochial jurisdictions — where each is isolated as much as possible from the other, by its visible landmarks, and its own...
الصفحة 308 - That no Person who shall have 'refused or neglected to pay any Rate for the Relief of the Poor, which shall be due from and shall have been demanded of him, shall be entitled to vote or to be present in any Vestry of the Parish for which auch Rate shall have been made, until he shall have paid the same.
الصفحة 151 - ... this to the first ordinary meeting. But, if instead of this, he conceives him a fit subject for a regular allowance, he will receive the assistance of another deacon to complete and confirm his inquiries, by the next ordinary meeting thereafter, — at which time, the applicant, if they still think him a fit object, is brought before us, and received upon the fund at such a rate of allowance as, upon all the circumstances of the case, the meeting of deacons shall judge proper.
الصفحة 55 - ... on the simple abolition of a compulsory assessment for the relief of new applicants, there would instantly break forth from innumerable fountains, now frozen or locked up by the hand of legislation, so many refreshing rills on all the places that had been left dry and destitute, by the withdrawment from them of public charity, as would spread a far more equal and smiling abundance than before over the face of society. The first, and by far the most productive of these fountains, is situated among...
الصفحة 227 - Charta erased from the volume of our liberties, as this primary authentic text of humane legislation from our statute-book. And if in the course of a remote time, the establishments of liberty and humanity, which we now possess, are to leave us, and the spirit of them to be carried to other lands, I trust this one record of them will survive, and that charity by law will be a fragment of English history, to be preserved wherever the succession of our constitution, or religion, shall go.
الصفحة 229 - And instead of working any kindly amalgamation between the higher and lower classes of the land, the whole effect of the system is to create a tremendous chasm between them, across which the two parties look to each other with all the fierceness and suspicion of natural enemies — the former feeling, as if preyed upon by a rapacity that is altogether interminable...