Observations on Some of the Chief Difficulties and Disadvantages of English Society, with Suggestions for Their Remedy

George Knight

Harvey and Darton, 1829 - 216 Seiten

Inhalt

• DEDICATION: viii
• The interesting observation of an acute writer on: xii
• PREFACE: xvii
• England the catspaw to the rapacity of her clergy: xviii
• Good legislative enactments capable of effecting much: 22
• Further suggestions for a criminal code Criminal damage: 29
• The opportunity of our excellent King to promote: 30
• The wants of society calculated to neutralize each other: 34
• Causes of Distress Remedy Proof from actual: 43
• Perhaps ninetenths or even a greater proportion: 54
• If Englishmen want a good penal code they should take: 57
• Impossibility of engrafting usefulness on a system: 66
• The following positions admitted by almost every Eng: 67
• five pounds and in the same building and under: 102
• Titles of all sorts registered in the same local district: 110
• APPEAL TO THE FEELINGS OF MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT: 116
• Colonization incomparably the most valuable: 131
• The advantages of such a colony to the manufacturing: 139
• CHARITABLE BEQUESTS: 146
• CHAPTER V: 149
• The Roman Catholic Relief Bill though wise and good: 157
• CHAPTER VIII: 163
• The subject of emigration has occupied much time: 173
• 21: 175
• Such conduct as loanmongers exhibit towards needy: 183
• REVENUE DUTIES DRAWBACKS AND BOUNTIES: 197
• CLAIMS OF THE WEST INDIA AND MAURITIUS INTEREST: 210

Beliebte Passagen

Seite 149 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.

Seite 218 - ... they are indescribably propitious, auspicious, and cheering. They presage the coming of that glorious future, when " all shall know the Lord, from the least to the greatest," and when " there shall be none to harm or destroy

Bibliografische Informationen

• Titel: Observations on Some of the Chief Difficulties and Disadvantages of English Society, with Suggestions for Their Remedy; Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature 1450-1850; Making of the modern economy
• Autor/in: George Knight
• Verlag: Harvey and Darton, 1829
• Original von: Oxford University
• Digitalisiert: 4. Apr. 2006
• Länge: 216 Seiten