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India, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the President of the Board of Trade, the President of the Poor-Law
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various
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On the whole, we may remark, that neither Poor-Law, nor Tory, nor Whig, nor right rule, nor misrule, nor politics, nor party, had the slightest influence in this astounding moral revolution among an agricultural people.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 Various
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Poor-Law; but it certainly looks as though Ministers had resolved to do what they _believed_ to be right, _ruat cælum_.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 Various
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Agricultural population were always on the brink of starvation, and when the Blight came it was impossible to meet the disaster -- The views of the _Morning Chronicle_ on the Government of Ireland -- Mr. Labouchere quotes the Poor-Law Enquiry of 1835 and the Devon
The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines John O'Rourke
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Poor-Law, and Mr. Disraeli's motion as to local burdens, has spoken in the House.
The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art. Various
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The Poor-Law they certainly hate, but from no pity for paupers.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 Various
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Poor-Law and electoral systems to master, as well as the prison systems of the different States.
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May we here be allowed to allude for an instant to a very delicate topic -- the new Poor-Law -- simply to call attention to the resolute support of it by the present Government (whether right or wrong), as at least a pretty decisive evidence of their uprightness and independence.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 Various
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Poor-Law Commissioner in respect to the notorious Andover Union
The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann
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All the experiences of Charities and Poor-Law Authorities simply confirm our postulate of the necessity of a standard of comfort if a child is to have a really good initial chance in the world.
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