 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1818 - 648 pages
...One writer, whose name carries with it very considerable weight,* has not scrupled to affirm, that ' No Scheme * for the amendment of the Poor Laws' merits...attention, ' which has not their abolition for its ultimate object.1 And even the Committee of the House of Commons seem to be of opinion, that their abolition... | |
 | Agriculture - 1829 - 786 pages
...stating the Advantages of Education, with a Plan for the gradual Abolition of the Poor Laws. Zi. 6d. " No scheme for the amendment of the poor laws merits...has not their abolition for its ultimate object." — Ricardo. Wetten, Robert, Architect : A Series of Designs for Villas, in the Italian Style of Architecture.... | |
 | Joseph Salway Eisdell - Economics - 1839 - 452 pages
...cannot go the length of an eminent writer on the subject, " that no scheme for their amendment deserves the least attention which has not their abolition for its ultimate object," yet it must be confessed that, as lately administered, to distribute their burthen so as to render... | |
 | William Lucas Sargant - Economics - 1872 - 338 pages
...should take place: but Kicardo objects to this. (23) " No scheme for the amendment of the poor-laws merits the least attention, which has not their abolition...of humanity, who can point out how this end can be obtained with the most security, and at the same time with the least violence. It is not by raising,... | |
 | David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch - Economics - 1886 - 688 pages
...unnecessary nor unprofitable virtues, we shall by degrees approach a sounder and more healthful state. No scheme for the amendment of the poor laws merits...friend to the poor, and to the cause of humanity, who * With Mr Buchanan, in the following passage, if it refers to temporary states of misery, I so far... | |
 | David Ricardo - Economics - 1919 - 526 pages
...new Poor Law Act (1834) was not, however, precisely of the kind denned by Ricardo when he writes, " No scheme for the amendment of the poor laws merits...has not their abolition for its ultimate object." Both Malthus and Ricardo, in their indignation at the terrible evils brought about by the indiscriminate... | |
 | John Bowditch, Clement Ramsland - Communism - 1961 - 210 pages
...unnecessary not unprofitable virtues, we shall by degrees approach a sounder and more healthful state. No scheme for the amendment of the poor laws merits...for its ultimate object; and he is the best friend of the poor, and to the cause of humanity, who can point out how this end can be attained with the... | |
 | David Ricardo - Economics - 1817 - 624 pages
...unnecessary nor unprofitable virtues, we shall by degrees approach a sounder and more healthful state. No scheme for the amendment of the poor laws merits...the cause of humanity, who can point out how this and can be attained with the most security, and at the same time with the least violence. It is not... | |
 | David P. Levine, S. Abu Turab Rizvi - Political Science - 2005 - 180 pages
...328-329). Both authors were vehement in their criticisms of the Poor Law. Ricardo, for example, wrote, "no scheme for the amendment of the Poor Laws merits...which has not their abolition for its ultimate object" (Ricardo 1951b: 107). The New Poor Law of 1834 was not generous to the poor. It had three key provisions:... | |
 | David Ricardo - Business & Economics - 2006 - 305 pages
...'History, vol. xxxii. p. 710. liable virtues, we shall by approach a sounder and more healthful state. No scheme for the amendment of the poor laws merits the least attention which has not flwir abolition for te ultimate object; and he is fl» best friend of the poor, and to the cause of... | |
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No scheme for the amendment of the poor laws merits the least attention which has not their abolition for its ultimate object... 