The Works, Volume 13J. Johnson, 1803 |
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... Beggars Character of Dr. Sheridan The History of the Second Solomon * Advertisement for the Honour of Ireland Page 252 257 261 272 275 281 283 284 · 285 289 292 294 A Letter , giving an Account of a pestilent Neighbour A Letter to the ...
... Beggars Character of Dr. Sheridan The History of the Second Solomon * Advertisement for the Honour of Ireland Page 252 257 261 272 275 281 283 284 · 285 289 292 294 A Letter , giving an Account of a pestilent Neighbour A Letter to the ...
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... beggars , and the ruin of those few sorry improvements we had . That farmers fhould be limited in ploughing , is very reasonable , and practised in England ; and might have easily been done here by penal clauses in their leases but to ...
... beggars , and the ruin of those few sorry improvements we had . That farmers fhould be limited in ploughing , is very reasonable , and practised in England ; and might have easily been done here by penal clauses in their leases but to ...
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... beggars in all circumstances except that of wandering about for alms , and that circumstance may arrive soon enough , when it will be time to add another ten thousand pounds in cop- per . But , without doubt , the families of Ireland ...
... beggars in all circumstances except that of wandering about for alms , and that circumstance may arrive soon enough , when it will be time to add another ten thousand pounds in cop- per . But , without doubt , the families of Ireland ...
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... beggars , or to leave the kingdom . The duke of Grafton , who was then lieutenant , being perfectly ashamed of so infamous and unpo- pular a proceeding , obtained from England a noli prosequi [ 35 ] A Proposal that all the Ladies and ...
... beggars , or to leave the kingdom . The duke of Grafton , who was then lieutenant , being perfectly ashamed of so infamous and unpo- pular a proceeding , obtained from England a noli prosequi [ 35 ] A Proposal that all the Ladies and ...
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... beggars of the female sex , followed by three , four , or six children , all in rags , and im- portuning every passenger for an alms . These mo- thers , instead of being able to work for their honest livelihood , are forced to employ ...
... beggars of the female sex , followed by three , four , or six children , all in rags , and im- portuning every passenger for an alms . These mo- thers , instead of being able to work for their honest livelihood , are forced to employ ...
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Page 42 - ... which the mother may certainly get, or the value in scraps, by her lawful occupation of begging; and it is exactly at one year old that I propose to provide for them in such a manner as, instead of being a charge upon their parents or the parish, or wanting food and raiment for the rest of their lives, they shall on the contrary contribute to the feeding, and partly to the clothing, of many thousands.
Page 42 - But my intention is very far from being confined to provide only for the children of professed beggars; it is of a much greater extent, and shall take in the whole number of infants at a certain age who are born of parents in effect as little able to support them as those who demand our charity in the streets.
Page 47 - But I am not in the least pain upon that matter, because it is very well known that they are every day dying, and rotting, by cold, and famine, and filth, and vermin, as fast as can be reasonably expected.
Page 52 - Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand ; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive : for the heart of this people is •waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed ; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
Page 45 - I have already computed the charge of nursing a beggar's child (in which list I reckon all cottagers, labourers, and four-fifths of the farmers) to be about two shillings per annum, rags included, and I believe no gentleman would repine to give ten shillings for the carcass of a good fat child...
Page 47 - Secondly, the poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own, which by law may be made liable to distress, and help to pay their landlord's rent, their corn and cattle being already seized, and money a thing unknown.
Page 42 - I subtract thirty thousand couples who are able to maintain their own children, although I apprehend there cannot be so many under the present distresses of the kingdom, but this being granted, there will remain an hundred and seventy thousand breeders. I again subtract fifty thousand for those women who miscarry, or whose children die by accident or disease within the year.
Page 45 - But with due deference to so excellent a friend, and so deserving a patriot, I cannot be altogether in his sentiments; for as to the males, my American acquaintance assured me from frequent experience, that their flesh was generally tough and lean, like that of our schoolboys, by continual exercise, and their taste disagreeable, and to fatten them would not answer the charge.
Page 45 - Those who are more thrifty (as I must confess the times require) may flay the carcass; the skin of which artificially dressed will make admirable gloves for ladies, and summer boots for fine gentlemen.
Page 124 - O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united! For in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they digged down a wall. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce, and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.