Generosity and the ghosts of poor laws passed.(Critical Essay)

From: Narrative | Date: May 1, 2004| Author: Grogan, Michael | Copyright information

Nothing in nature can be more disgusting than a parish pay-table ... nor in nature can anything be more beautiful than the mild complacency of benevolence, hastening to the humble cottage to relieve the wants of industry and virtue, to feed the hungry, to cloath the naked, and to sooth the sorrows of the widow with her tender orphans; nothing can be more pleasing unless it be their sparkling eyes, their bursting tears, and their uplifted hands, the artless expressions of unfeigned ...

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