 | Barthold Georg Niebuhr - 1844 - 464 pages
...England. In a despotic state this idea has no meaning; but with a free and proud nation, it is a duty to provide for those members of the community who are unable to provide for themselves. The number of real paupers at Rome must have been immense. Many of them were not included in any tribe... | |
 | Barthold Georg Niebuhr - Rome - 1844 - 932 pages
...England. With a barbarous people this idea has no meaning; but with a free and proud nation it is a duty to provide for those members of the community who are unable to provide for themselves. The number of real paupers at Rome must have been immense ; many of them were not included in any tribe,... | |
 | Barthold Georg Niebuhr - 1844 - 442 pages
...England. In a despotic state this idea has_np_ meaning; but with a free and proud nation it is a duty to provide for those members of the community who are unable to provide for themselves. The number of real paupers at Rome must have been immense. Many of them were not included in any tribe;... | |
 | American periodicals - 1852 - 610 pages
...England. With a barbarous people this idea has no meaning ; but with a free and proud nation it is a duty to provide for those members of the community who are unable to provide for themselves. The number bf real paupers at Rome must have been immense; many of them were not included in any tribe,... | |
 | Egidio Forcellini - Latin language - 1854 - 1240 pages
...indolence, and because it paved the way fur that unruly democracy in which the republic perished. But in the first place, it must be borne in mind, that...resolved to direct the weapons he had hitherto wielded on behnlf of the poor against the power of the senate, which had excited his indignation by systematically... | |
 | Greek and Roman biography - 1861 - 1246 pages
...ruins of these '''"am public granaries existed at Home through'•* tar aiddie ages, but at present no trace of them is visible. This measure, which may...are unable to provide for themselves. The power of Cains's oratory was irresistible, and carried victory with it in all he undertook ; and on the wings... | |
 | Fred Rogers Fairchild - Economics - 1923 - 552 pages
...(6) Care of dependents and defectives. — Another important function of the government is to care for those members of the community who are unable to provide for themselves. The poor, the sick, the crippled, the blind, and the insane are found in every community. Among primitive... | |
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But in the first place, it must be borne in mind, that C. Gracchus did not give away the grain for nothing, but only sold it at so low a price that the poor, with some labour, might be enabled to support themselves and their children ; and secondly, that... 