 | United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Hunger - 1988 - 114 페이지
...those entering Work and Training programs An enhancement of food comodi ty levels. Samuel Johnson said, "A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization." I believe we all recognize the importance of developing measures that will allow the needy to gain... | |
 | Philip Slater - 1992 - 244 페이지
...with the 'purpose' evolving. — Mary Parker Follett, Creative Experience Stumbling toward Democracy A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. — Samuel Johnson They took it asunder I nurd thum sigh. When will they reassemble it? James Joyce,... | |
 | Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham - 1992 - 552 페이지
...Poverty is the open-mouthed, relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. — Henry George A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. — Samuel Johnson If a free society cann it help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce - 1996 - 112 페이지
...quarter of a billion dollars poorer, and leaving poor children and seniors at risk. Samuel Johnson said "A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization." Let's show the millions of poor children, seniors who worked hard all their lives and spent all of... | |
 | Adele Lindenmeyr - 1996 - 358 페이지
...late Muscovite era to the early twentieth century. The often,quoted Samuel Johnson once declared that "a decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization." Did government in Russia pass this test? The Russian autocrats, as is well known, assumed a paternalistic... | |
 | Joan Waugh - 1997 - 332 페이지
...cities.1 Most, if not all, Gilded Age philanthropists would have agreed with Samuel Johnson's remark that "a decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization," yet the precise nature of "decent provision" was hotly debated, just as it is today. A particularly... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 페이지
...vol. 5. Cautioning against the "attempt to feed the people out of the hands of the magistrates." 2 A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. SAMUEL JOHNSON, (1709-1784) British author, lexicographer. Quoted in lames Boswell, Life of Dr. ¡ohnson,... | |
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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. 
