| 1845 - 786 Seiten
...proportion of the people are suffered to languish in helpless misery, that country must be ill-policed, and wretchedly governed. A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. The condition of the lower orders more especially is the true mark of national discrimination.' We... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 228 Seiten
...than in any other country of the same extent; he did not mean little Cantons or petty Republics. " Where a great proportion of the people (said he) are...policed, and wretchedly governed; a decent provision tor the• poor, is the true test of civilization. Gentlemen of education, he observed, were pretty... | |
| James Boswell - 1820 - 442 Seiten
...great proportion of the people, said he, are differed to languish in helpless misery, that country mnst be ill policed, and wretchedly governed : a decent provision for the poor, is the trne test of civilization. — Gentlemen of education, he observed, were pretty much the same in all... | |
| James Boswell - 1821 - 376 Seiten
...follows : " Ut semper fortissime rem gererem, et superior virtute essem aliis." JB— O.] VOL. II. U " Though of no high extraction himself, he had much...education, he observed, were pretty much the same in ail countries ; the condition of the lower orders, the poor especially, was the true mark of national... | |
| 1821 - 372 Seiten
...than in any other country of the same extent : he did not mean little cantons, or petty republics. " Where a great proportion of the people," said he,...governed : a decent provision for the poor is the trne test of civilization. Gentlemen of education," he observed, " were pretty much the- same in all... | |
| 1878 - 1002 Seiten
...necessary.' He clenches this part of his argument with the saying ' of our great moralist, Dr. Johnson : " A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization." ' The motion, being opposed by the Government, was lost ; but was renewed next year by Mr. Sadler,... | |
| Michael Thomas Sadler - 1828 - 496 Seiten
...prevails, is too ohvious to universal observation to need a word in proof. Dr. Johnson has said, that " a decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization ;" but such institutions are not, however, confined to Christendom. Even the semi-barbarous countries... | |
| 1828 - 546 Seiten
...In short, the words of Dr. Johnson seem fully borne out by historical and geographical facts, that " A decent provision for the poor, is the true test of civilization." 5. He next corrects some most egregious errors, which, by the ignorance of our political economists,... | |
| James Boswell - 1831 - 600 Seiten
...not highly gratified; yet I do not recollect to have passed many evenings with fewer objections' " Though of no high extraction himself, he had much...same in all countries ; the condition of the lower orders,*the poor especially, was the true mark of national discrimination.' " When the corn laws were... | |
| James Boswell - 1835 - 604 Seiten
...than in any other country of the same extent: he did not mean little cantons, or petty republicka. Where a great proportion of the people,' said he,...governed: a decent provision for the poor is the true teat of civilization. Gentlemen of education,' he observed, ' were pretty much the same in all countries... | |
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