The Reports of the Society for bettering the condition and increasing the comforts of the poor. [Ed. by sir T. Bernard]. (1st-40th report, 1797-1817). |
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Página 276 - ... nothing would make poor folks more happy, than finding that great folks thought of them :" that he wished every poor man had as comfortable a home as his own ; not but that he believed there might be a few thriftless fellows, who would not do good in it.
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