 | 1780 - 498 pages
...thing. I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. — I think the bell way of doing good to the poor, is not making them...them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I ob» ferved in different countries, that the more public provifions were jqade for the poor, the lefs... | |
 | James Donaldson - Agriculture - 1796 - 446 pages
...(the mode of levying taxes for the fupport of the poor, and the manner in which they are maintained) : I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion...and became richer. There is no country in the world world where fo many provifions are eftablifhed for them ; fo many hofpitals to receive them when they... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 356 pages
...in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is, not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed, in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less... | |
 | James Kirke Paulding - England - 1822 - 332 pages
...opinion about the means. 1 think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not by making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1822 - 578 pages
...in opinion about the means. I think the best way of going goon to the poor is, not making them e»sy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much; and I observed, in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less... | |
 | Emigration and immigration - 1828 - 68 pages
...world can hardly furnish. 54 " I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth, I travelled much, and I observed, in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1836 - 584 pages
...in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is, not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth, I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they... | |
 | 1836 - 444 pages
...in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is, not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and 1 observed in different countries that the more provisions were made for the poor the less they provided... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1844 - 600 pages
...in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is, not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth, I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they... | |
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I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is, not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth, I travelled much, and I observed in different... 
