Excerpt from A Compendium of the Operations of the Poor Law Amendment Act: With Some Practical Observations on Its Present Results, and Future Apparent Usefulness And costly; indeed it would seem that, provided the plan was sufficiently expensive, no questions were asked. Ibid. In allusion to the interior, he proceeds thus: In one large room we perceived a group of motionless, worn out men, with age grown doublez but neither picking dry sticks, nor mumbling to themselves; with nothing to do; with nothing to cheer them; ...
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Excerpt from A Compendium of the Operations of the Poor Law Amendment Act: With Some Practical Observations on Its Present Results, and Future Apparent Usefulness And costly; indeed it would seem that, provided the plan was sufficiently expensive, no questions were asked. Ibid. In allusion to the interior, he proceeds thus: In one large room we perceived a group of motionless, worn out men, with age grown doublez but neither picking dry sticks, nor mumbling to themselves; with nothing to do; with nothing to cheer them; with nothing in this world to hope for, with nothing to fear; gnu into all sorts of attitudes, they looked more like pieces of ship timber than men. Then follows a description of certain poor old women, in which the castigating en of the author is not so callous or severe. He nishes his remarks on the River House with a comment on hed-ridden men and women. All, says he, separate, of coarse, present a set of wrinkled faces which seemed more dead than alive; they were wanting nothing, ask ing for nothing, waiting for nothing but their death. At p. 476 we find him visiting. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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