To pay old-debts without new-taxes, by charitably-relieving, politically-reforming, and judiciously employing the poor, under one new general law, we may justly and gradually discharge all our national debts, within Twenty Years, without Land-Tax, or New Imposition. And whilst these Debts, are thus gradually reducing, we may farther receive, from the Judicious Government of the Poor, much greater Benefits, than the Payment of those Sixty-Millions. And, in a Postscript, the proposed Qualifications, of the desired Corporation, for Relieving and Employing the Poor, are abstracted; and the great, and probable future Gains, of that Corporation, are particularly mentioned.

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  • To pay old-debts without new-taxes, by charitably-relieving, politically-reforming, and judiciously employing the poor, under one new general law, we may justly and gradually discharge all our national debts, within Twenty Years, without Land-Tax, or New Imposition. And whilst these Debts, are thus gradually reducing, we may farther receive, from the Judicious Government of the Poor, much greater Benefits, than the Payment of those Sixty-Millions. And, in a Postscript, the proposed Qualifications, of the desired Corporation, for Relieving and Employing the Poor, are abstracted; and the great, and probable future Gains, of that Corporation, are particularly mentioned.
  • Miseries of the poor are a national sin, shame, and charge
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Imprint
London: printed for Tho. Warner in Pater-Noster-Row, 1723.
Publication year
1723-1723
ESTC No.
N13731
Grub Street ID
3633
Description
12,iii-xlviii,158p. ; 8⁰
Note
Anonymous. By Laurence Braddon.

First published as 'The miseries of the poor are a national sin, shame, and charge'.

Price from imprint: Price 1 s. 6 d.Citation/references Hanson, 2346n

Goldsmiths', 6245