...the sympathy and active support of a number of excellent men, who, in advance of him, had founded a ' Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor.' The aid of the committee of this society was now sought. It was agreed on all hands that the proposed...

...SOAVE. AUTHORS. SONGS. Soave (Francesco). Novelle Morali, ad uso cle'Fimciulli . . . Venezia, 1823. Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor, London. Reports, v. 1-2. Lond., 1798-1800. Same. v. 1-6. Lond., 1811-15. Society for Conversion and...

...Royal Jennerian (out of the " Gentleman's Magazine," 1805, pages 521—526). The Twenty-seventh Report of the Society for Bettering the Condition and increasing the Comforts of the Poor. Vol. V. London, March, 1806 ; pp. 100. Treatise on the Cow Pox, containing an Enumeration of the Principal...

...established a co-operative shop or store at Mongewell. The report ot this store appears in the first report of the society for bettering the condition and increasing the comforts of the poor. This report was published in 1797. It seems that this society was founded by Sir Thomas Bernard. To...

...third) from the select Committee on distress from wam of employment. March, Maj', July 1895 Eeports of the Society for bettering the condition and increasing the comforts of the poor. 7 vols. 16°. London 1798 —1816. Report« from the Commission on the Bill to regulate the labour...

...from Sheffield to Totley, Baslow, &c. [BETTERING SoCIETY.] 1oli. 1 os. subscribed to the Sheffield society for bettering the condition and increasing the comforts of the Poor. [VoLUNTEER DRILL GRoUND.] Trustees agreed to take upon themselves to settle with the Duke of Norfolk...

...hospital, in the city of Dublin. Dublin, 12mo. 1801.— 2. Information for cottagers, collected from the reports of the society for bettering the condition, and increasing the comforts of the poor. 12mo. Lond. 1800. — 3. Information for overseers, collected as aforesaid. 12mo. Lond. !"!>!>. —...

...Parton (John), Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, oh. vi. 1 Prefatory Introduction to vol. ii. of The Reports of the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor. The above remarks are contained in a note. double portion. Thus property of every sort was prevented...

...mother of monotonousness and mediocrity. In the first quarter of the last century there existed a " Society for bettering the condition and increasing the comforts of the poor." There was room for its work. Illfed men were incapable of bearing arms, and gentlemen drawn in the...

...period, is embodied in five volumes containing the Reports of an association with a formidable name— "The Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor." This Society was founded in 1796 by Mr. (afterwards Sir) Thomas Bernard, assisted by the Bishop of...