 | George Browning - 1834 - 664 pagine
...inmates with the object of forming industrious habits in the young, and of deterring the indolent. " Into such a house none will enter voluntarily ; work,...sacrifice of their accustomed habits and gratifications." These methods seem to be the only safe tests as to the necessity of the applicants ; and indeed the... | |
 | Marc Pilisuk, Phyllis Pilisuk - 1973 - 354 pagine
...any doubt of that intent. Consider this statement by the Poor Law Commissioners in 1834, for example: Into such a house none will enter voluntarily; work,...gratifications. Thus the parish officer, being furnished an unerring test of the necessity of applicants, is relieved from his painful and difficult responsibility:... | |
 | Deborah A. Stone - 1986 - 266 pagine
...faith that when confronted with such a decision, applicants would reveal the true state of their needs: Into such a house none will enter voluntarily; work,...gratifications. Thus the parish officer, being furnished an unerring test of the necessity of applicants , is relieved from his painful and difficult responsibility;... | |
 | Jean Swanson - 2001 - 216 pagine
...Cloward quote the Poor Law Commissioners as they described the purpose of their new workhouses in 1834: Into such a house none will enter voluntarily; work,...sacrifice of their accustomed habits and gratifications. This statement contains the stereotypes we still hear about people who are poor being lazy, even "vicious,"... | |
 | David Wagner - 2005 - 204 pagine
...production. Poorhouse, Almshouse, Poor Farm: Buried American History Into such a house, none shall enter voluntarily; work, confinement, and discipline,...sacrifice of their accustomed habits and gratifications. — English Poor Laws on the workhouse1 There was a cheerful feeling of activity, and even an air of... | |
 | Cynthia Massie Mara, Laura Olson - 2008 - 464 pagine
...would force supplicants to show their hand. Or as His Majesty's commissioners so delicately put it, "Into such a house none will enter voluntarily; work,...but extreme necessity will induce any to accept the sacrifice of their accustomed habits and gratifications." The nursing home is said by some to have... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1885 - 246 pagine
...and to Remedial measures, deter the indolent; and the perfection of a parish establishment is for its inmates to be scarcely equal to its own work. Into...with an unerring test of the necessity of applicants, is relieved from his painful and difficult responsibility ; while all have the gratification of knowing... | |
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Into such a house none will enter voluntarily; work, confinement, and discipline will deter the indolent and vicious: and nothing but extreme necessity will induce any to accept the comfort which must be obtained by the surrender of their free agency,... 