Christmas stories [by E. Berens].W. Baxter, 1830 - 157 pages |
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Page 155 - I fear the giving mankind a dependence on any thing for support, in age or sickness, besides industry and frugality during youth and health, tends to flatter our natural indolence, to encourage idleness and prodigality, and thereby to promote and increase poverty, the very evil it was intended to cure ; thus multiplying beggars instead of diminishing them.
Page 156 - ... what the rich expend, the labouring poor receive in payment for their labour. It may seem a paradox if I should assert, that our labouring poor do, in every year, receive the whole revenue of the nation; I mean not only the public revenue, but also the revenue or clear income of all private estates, or a sum equivalent to the whole.
Page 27 - Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words, in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him shall the Son of Man be ashamed when he cometh in the glory of his Father, with the holy angels...
Page 56 - Day-time unlawfully and wilfully take or destroy, or attempt to take or destroy, any Fish in any such Water...
Page 68 - However, we Christians, under whatsoever government we are, are directed to submit to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake...
Page 60 - When that change is made, repentance is complete. God will consider that life as amended, which would have been amended, if he had spared it. Repentance in the sight of...
Page 158 - I heartily wish that any means could be fallen upon to do it, consistent with their interest and happiness ; but, as the cheapness of other things is owing to the plenty of those things, so the cheapness of labor is in most cases owing to the multitude of laborers, and to their underworking one another in order to obtain employment.
Page 158 - I said at first, our laboring poor receive annually the whole of the clear revenues of the nation, and from us they can have no more. If it be said that their wages are too low, and that they ought to be better paid for their...
Page 56 - Water aforesaid, without the consent of the owner or owners thereof, or shall be aiding or assisting...
Page 154 - ... are plenty, their wages will be low; by low wages a family is supported with difficulty; this difficulty deters many from marriage, who therefore long continue servants and single. Only, as the cities take supplies of people from the country, and thereby make a little more room in the country, marriage is a little more encouraged there, and the births exceed the deaths. 5.