poor-laws

We build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed and the sick; we institute poor-laws; and our medical men exert their utmost skill to save the life of every one to the last moment.

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We civilised men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination; we build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed, and the sick; we institute poor-laws; and our medical men exert their utmost skill to save the life of every one to the last moment.

Cue outrage in three, two, one… 2007

We civilised men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination; we build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed, and the sick; we institute poor-laws; and our medical men exert their utmost skill to save the life of every one to the last moment.

Cue outrage in three, two, one… 2007

We civilised men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination; we build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed, and the sick; we institute poor-laws; and our medical men exert their utmost skill to save the life of every one to the last moment.

Cue outrage in three, two, one… 2007

We civilised men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination; we build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed, and the sick; we institute poor-laws; and our medical men exert their utmost skill to save the life of every one to the last moment.

Vacuity of ID: Dembski Channeling Colbert? - The Panda's Thumb 2007

We civilised men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination; we build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed, and the sick; we institute poor-laws; and our medical men exert their utmost skill to save the life of every one to the last moment.

Darwin on the argument from Ignorance again - The Panda's Thumb 2005

It is true that those remedies have often been productive of more harm than good, it is true that it would be hard to calculate the evil effects of the English poor-laws, for instance, but all the experiments that have hitherto worked badly are but so much material from which to draw a knowledge of better methods.

Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 Various

The gentry may neglect their duties in other respects: as regards the performance of charitable acts, they are faultless; the middleman may be exacting -- but he is hospitable; and the men who make those groundless charges, would be not a little astonished did they see the multitudes that are still fed (poor-laws notwithstanding) at the BIG House of the Irish gentleman.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 Various

A future contract for the continuance of the poor-laws, and the right of pumps for the guardians to concoct the soup.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 13, 1841 Various

The alms bestowed on the poor by the monasteries, together with those furnished by law, by the parish priests, served to support them without recourse to the more recent poor-laws.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913