 | Henry Kett - 1805 - Počet stránok 340
...help, is his last and only resource. By his condition may be estimated the prosperity of a nation ; the real opulence, strength, and security of the public are proportionate to the comfort which he enjoys ; and his wretchedness is the sure criterion of a bad administration of government. The distance... | |
 | Henry Kett - 1805 - Počet stránok 340
...help, is his last and only resource. By his condition may be estimated the prosperity of a nation ; the real opulence, strength, and security of the public are proportionate to the comfort which he enjoys ; and his wretchedness is the sure criterion of a bad administration of government. The distance... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1815 - Počet stránok 302
...dition may be estimated the real prosperity of a " country ; the real opulence, strength, and secu" rity of the public are proportionate to the comfort " which...case, as in many others, with a wide exception from those general rules in politics which time and experience had long sanctioned. We shall in vain look... | |
 | Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - 1816 - Počet stránok 458
...scanty pittance of pa" rochial help, are his only resources." — " By his condition may be estimated the " real prosperity of a country ; the real " opulence,..." public are proportionate to the comfort " which he enjoys, and his wretchedness is a " sure criterion of a kad administration."* " The * ARTHUR YOUNG.... | |
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the opportunity of providing the least supply . ** for the declining years of life, and the gloomy •* confinement of a work-house, or the scanty " pittance of parochial help, are their only re 