Proceedings of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow, Volume 43The Society, 1912 - Science |
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Page 183 - to o'erstep the modesty of nature ; for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror
Page 43 - Persons who may be capable of earning a living under favourable circumstances, but are incapable from mental defect existing from birth or from an early age (a) of competing on equal terms with their normal fellows; or (b) of managing themselves and their affairs with ordinary prudence.
Page 167 - here's our fellow Shakespeare puts them all down ; aye and Ben Jonson too. O that Ben Jonson is a pestilent fellow ! He brought up Horace, giving the poets a pill, but our fellow Shakespeare hath given him a purge . . .
Page 4 - the means of subsistence increase, unless prevented by some very powerful and obvious checks; and (c) these checks, and the checks which repress the superior power of population and keep its effects on a level with the means of subsistence, are all resolvable into moral restraint, vice, and misery.
Page 6 - I feel persuaded that if the poor laws had never existed in this country, though there might have been a few more instances of very severe distress, the aggregate mass of happiness among the common people would have been much greater than it is at present. The radical defect of all systems of
Page 2 - so much superior, the increase of the human species can only be kept down to the level of the means of subsistence by the constant operation of the strong law of necessity acting as a check upon the greater power. The ultimate check,
Page 181 - these sad Causes and set times of Humiliation doe continue, publike Stage-playes shall cease, and bee forborne. Instead of which are recommended to the people of this Land, the profitable and seasonable Considerations of Repentance, Reconciliation, and peace with God, which probably may produce outward peace and prosperity, and bring again Times of Joy and Gladness to these Nations.
Page 181 - publike Sports doe not well agree with publike Calamities, nor publike Stage-playes with the Seasons of Humiliation, this being an Exercise of Sad and pious Solemnity, and the other being Spectacles of too commonly expressing lascivious Mirth and Levitie, it is therefore thought fit, and
Page 4 - these checks, and the checks which repress the superior power of population and keep its effects on a level with the means of subsistence, are all resolvable into moral restraint, vice, and misery. In
Page 168 - collectors for gaols, prisons, or hospitals, or fencers, bearwards, common players of interludes, and minstrels, wandering abroad (other than players of interludes belonging to any baron of this realm, or any other honourable personage of greater degree, to be authorised to