 | Sophia Elizabeth Higgins - Genealogy - 1903 - 424 pages
...(John), Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, oh. vi. 1 Prefatory Introduction to vol. ii. of The Reports of the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor. The above remarks are contained in a note. double portion. Thus property of every sort was prevented... | |
 | 1905 - 858 pages
...period, is embodied in five volumes containing the Reports of an association with a formidable name— "The Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor." This Society was founded in 1796 by Mr. (afterwards Sir) Thomas Bernard, assisted by the Bishop... | |
 | Frank Podmore - 1906 - 418 pages
...clean and well aired, and ten schoolmasters are daily employed in their tuition." Again, the reports of the " Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor" contain an account by Sir Thomas Bernard, given on the authority of Professor Garnett of the... | |
 | Frank Podmore - 1906 - 420 pages
...clean and well aired, and ten schoolmasters are daily employed in their tuition." Again, the reports of the " Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor " contain an account by Sir Thomas Bernard, given on the authority of Professor Garnett of the... | |
 | Wilkins Updike - Narragansett (R.I.) - 1907 - 744 pages
...Hospital and establishing, in 1 796, assisted by the Bishop of Durham, William Wilberforce, and others, The Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor. It is the five volumes containing the reports of this association which form the basis of the... | |
 | John Lawrence Hammond, Barbara Bradby Hammond - Agricultural laborers - 1913 - 446 pages
...providing allotments was never tried, but we know something of individual experiments from the Reports of the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor. This society took up the cause of allotments very zealously, and most of the examples of private... | |
 | Charles Birchenough - Education - 1914 - 436 pages
...formation of " inveterate habits." Of the many associations that arose it will suffice to mention four — The Society for Bettering the Condition and increasing the Comforts of the Poor (1796) ; the Sunday School Union (1803) ; the Royal Lancasteriau Institution (1808) ; and the... | |
 | Sir Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave, Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave - Economics - 1901 - 824 pages
...established in 1795 one of the earliest co-operative stores at Mongewell (Oxfordshire). He was president of the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor (1796). [Bishop Barrington's practical work is fully described in GJ Holyoake's Self-help a Hundred... | |
 | Ellwood Patterson Cubberley - Education - 1920 - 902 pages
...education (mutual schools; infant schools) that would train the poor in self-help were the most prominent. "The Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor," founded in 1796, became a very important early-nineteenth-century institution. Branches were... | |
 | Witt Bowden - Great Britain - 1925 - 366 pages
...Bill at Present Pending in Parliament. Glasgow, 1791. (Bound in Board of Trade Papers, 6/133.) Reports of the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor. London, 1798, etc. Rules and Orders of the Society Instituted at Bath for the Encouragement of... | |
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The Reports of the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor, 5 vols. 
