Signals of Distress in Refuges and Homes of Charity (etc.)

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Страница 37 - ... thread thriftily mending his stockings. My astonishment was .still greater, when I beheld a lame fellow, whose legs were too big to walk, within an hour after bring him a pot of ale. I will not mention the shakings, distortions, and convulsions, which...
Страница 37 - ... mending his stockings. My astonishment was still greater when I beheld a lame fellow, whose legs were too big to walk, within an hour after bring him a pot of ale. I will not mention the shakings, distortions, and convulsions, which many of them practise to gain an alms ; but sure I am they ought to be taken care of in this condition, either by the beadle or the magistrate. They, it seems, relieve their posts according to their talents. There is...
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Страница 290 - Christianity, it is true, the jsyjnrjathy of a like experience and the example of women, may soften and, possibly, subvert this ugly characteristic of our sex ; but it is originally there, and has likewise its analogy in the practice of our brute brethren, who hunt the sick or disabled member of the herd from among them, as an...
Страница 37 - I looked out of my window the other morning earlier than ordinary, and saw a blind beggar, an hour before the passage he stands in is frequented, with a needle and thread, thriftily mending his stockings: my astonishment was still greater, when I beheld a lame fellow, whose legs were too big to walk within an hour after, bring him a pot of ale. I will not mention the shakings, distortions, and convulsions which many of them practise to gain an alms; but sure, I am, they ought to be taken care of...
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