A Compendium of the Operations of the Poor Law Amendment ACT: With Some Practical Observations on Its Present Results, and Future Apparent Usefulness (Classic Reprint)

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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.

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