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Is there not some danger of increasing the evils of poverty , by the very means which are employed to relieve it ? Does not the known liberality of a town , or a neighborhood , unhappily operate , in too many instances , as a premium ...
Is there not some danger of increasing the evils of poverty , by the very means which are employed to relieve it ? Does not the known liberality of a town , or a neighborhood , unhappily operate , in too many instances , as a premium ...
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... supported by the poor rates . Nor can we , in this highly favored land of . liberty and plenty , boast of our exemption from the mis > > eries and claims of poverty . Increasing multitudes , 3 * ON DOING GOOD TO THE POOR . 37.
... supported by the poor rates . Nor can we , in this highly favored land of . liberty and plenty , boast of our exemption from the mis > > eries and claims of poverty . Increasing multitudes , 3 * ON DOING GOOD TO THE POOR . 37.
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Increasing multitudes , in our cities and large towns , are miserably dependant on the aids of charity ... on all hands , that the increase of pauperism , in our country at large , far outruns its increasing population : and I have ...
Increasing multitudes , in our cities and large towns , are miserably dependant on the aids of charity ... on all hands , that the increase of pauperism , in our country at large , far outruns its increasing population : and I have ...
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The alarming increase of the evil in question , among ourselves , cannot as in Great Britain , be ascribed to the decay of ... nor to the want of sufficient territory , to afford scope for the enterprise of an increasing population .
The alarming increase of the evil in question , among ourselves , cannot as in Great Britain , be ascribed to the decay of ... nor to the want of sufficient territory , to afford scope for the enterprise of an increasing population .
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increase of pauperism , the citizens of New - York appointed a very respectable committee , to inquire into the state of want and misery among the poor in that city , and to devise some plan to prevent , as far as possible ...
increase of pauperism , the citizens of New - York appointed a very respectable committee , to inquire into the state of want and misery among the poor in that city , and to devise some plan to prevent , as far as possible ...
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| Title | Miscellaneous Discourses and Reviews |
| Author | Heman Humphrey |
| Publisher | J. S. and C. Adams, 1834 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 22 Nov 2006 |
| Length | 415 pages |
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