The Poor Law (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

T. W. Fowle

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330748948 ISBN 13 : 9781330748947

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Poor Law

Of the dangers that await - let us call it - unlicensed appropriation. On p. 77 I quote from Sir F. Head the story of the parish clerk who threatened to fight the overseer if he did not pay him for ringing the bell at paupers'' funerals; and on p. 114 I point out that the clerk, ta of the Guardians, has a su premacy much greater than is usually held by similar officers. Dr. Aschrott combines his information with the following disastrous result (p. In many instances the clerk was the chief or even the sole actor. In answer to a question why certain improper expenditure had been incurred, an overseer stated, ''why, sir, the clerk is a dreadful man, and always threatens to fight me whenever I want to stop such a charge.'' And if the clerk''s physical powers were not usually exercised in this fashion, knowledge and education often made him master of the situation. To the British mind the idea of a respectable country solicitor fighting an overseer is good better far is the idea of our familiar old friend, the parish clerk, being, by virtue of superior know ledge, master of the situation. Well, after all, I am but a country clergyman, and - perhaps he is.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

To provide for us in our necessities is not in the power of Government. It would be a vain presumption in. statesmen to think they can do it. The people maintain them, and not they the people. It is in the power of Government to prevent much evil; it can do very little positive good in this, or perhaps in an3rthing else. It is not only so of the State and statesman, but of all the classes and descriptions of the rich; they are the pensioners of the poor, and are maintained by their superfluity. They are under an absolute, hereditary, and indefeasible dependence on those who labour, and are miscalled the poor. Edmund Burke.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330748948
• ISBN 13: 9781330748947
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 193
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