Excerpt from A Letter to Samuel Whitbread, Esq. M. P: On His Proposed Bill for the Amendment of the Poor LawsIthe experience of the last two (hundred years, and the circumstances which have called for the present bill, are convincing proofs, that in the establishment of a satisfactory provision for the poor, the efforts of the ablest legislators 11aye {been repeatedly foiled. That the cause reiterated failures is to be found in those principle...
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