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

• CHAPTER: i
• AN INQUIRY INTO THE MEANS OF PROCURING ABUNDANCE: 19
• Good legislative enactments capable of effecting much: 20
• 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
• Impossibility of engrafting usefulness on a system: 66
• The following positions admitted by almost every Eng: 67
• VIRTUE: 73
• Prevention of an evil better than a cure and whereas: 82
• One or more police officers should be established: 88
• Necessity for degrees of punishment for degrees: 97
• 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
• CHAPTER V: 129
• Colonization incomparably the most valuable: 131
• A juvenile colony if supplied gratuitously with all their: 139
• CHARITABLE BEQUESTS: 146
• ENGLISH HIERARCHY AND ROMISH HIERARCHY: 151
• The present contentions between Romish hierarchy: 155
• CHAPTER VIII: 163
• FOR: 170
• Such conduct as loanmongers exhibit towards needy: 183
• Suggestions for the means of neutralizing our unhap: 184
• Our government in continuing to pay more than they: 187
• Sinkingfund altogether absurd: 193
• If all governments would mutually agree to the prin: 201
• 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