 | William Franklin Watson - 1904 - 244 페이지
...the listening crowds the story of salvation. 7. The way to his land of promise was rough and long. 8. A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. 9. To relieve distress is godlike. 10. Now only here and there a little star Looks forth alone. 11.... | |
 | William Franklin Webster, Alice Woodworth Cooley - 1904 - 246 페이지
...the listening crowds the story of salvation. 7. The way to his land of promise was rough and long. 8. A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. 9. To relieve distress is godlike. 10. Now only here and there a little star Looks forth alone. 11.... | |
 | 1905 - 730 페이지
...before my memory when I read in Edward Fitzgerald's Polonius these observations of Dr. Samuel Johnson : "A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. Gentlemen of education are pretty much the same in all countries ; the condition of the lower orders, the poor especially,... | |
 | Samuel Cox, Sir William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt - 1905 - 488 페이지
...pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel." —(The King in King Lear, Act iii. Scene 4.) " A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization " (Dr. Johnson). iv. 28. All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. " Express confessions give definiteness... | |
 | James Boswell - 1907 - 628 페이지
...than in any other country of the same extent : he did not mean little Cantons, or petty Republics. Where a great proportion of the people (said he) are...languish in helpless misery, that country must be ill-policed and wretchedly governed : a decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1852
...for than in any other country of the same extent : he did not mean little cantons or petty republics, where a great proportion of the people,' said he, ' are suffered to languish in helpcoun Jim. BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSOX. 87 less misery, that country must be ill policed, and wretchedly... | |
 | Alice Woodworth Cooley, William Franklin Webster - 1909 - 442 페이지
...the listening crowds the story of salvation. 7. The way to his land of promise was rough and long. 8. A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. 9. To relieve distress is godlike. 10. Now only here and there a little star Looks forth alone. 11.... | |
 | 1913 - 594 페이지
...toilers, though the world is the paymaster, and the toilers are at its mercy. Dr. Samuel Johnson says : "A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. Gentlemen of education are pretty much the same in all countries ; the condition of the lower orders, the poor especially,... | |
 | James Walter Wesolowski - 1962 - 288 페이지
...conditions from which poverty had sprung. But, as Dr. Johnson observed, according to Biographer Boswell, "a decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization." And as western civilization has inched along it has broadened to horizons a little more. Slowly we... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Welfare Reform Subcommittee - 1978 - 762 페이지
...recipients, particularly in the Northeast, couldn't be more urgent. In the words of Samuel Johnson, "A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization." Mr. WEISS. Thank you. STATEMENT OF CAROL ANGELL Mrs. ANGELL. My name is Carol Angell. I am also from... | |
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... a decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. — Gentlemen of education, he observed, were pretty much the same in all countries ; the condition of the lower orders, the poor especially, was the true mark of national discrimination. 
