 Of all obstacles to improvement, ignorance is the most formidable, because the only true secret of assisting the poor is to make them agents in bettering their own condition, and to supply them, not with a temporary stimulus, but with a permanent energy.  British Farmer's Magazine - Page 2151854Full view - About this book
 | John Bird Sumner - 1818 - 448 pages
...the only true secret of assisting the poor is to make them agents in bettering their own condition, and to supply them, not with a temporary stimulus,...co-operate in any plan proposed for their advantage, more likely to listen to any reasonable suggestion, more able to understand, and therefore more willing... | |
 | Robert Aglionby Slaney - 1824 - 262 pages
...only true secret of assisting the " poor is to make them agents in bettering their " own condition ; and to supply them, not " with a temporary stimulus, but with a perma" nent energy." * Not merely will the children who attend the schools become better members of... | |
 | John Bird Sumner (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1825 - 468 pages
...the only true secret of assisting the poor is to make them agents in bettering their own condition, and to supply them, not with a temporary stimulus,...co-operate in any plan proposed for their advantage, more likely to listen to any reasonable suggestion, more able to understand, and therefore more willing... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1825 - 446 pages
...the only true secret of assisting the poor is to make them agents in bettering their own condition, and to supply them, not with a temporary stimulus,...co-operate in any plan proposed for their advantage, more likely to listen to any reasonable suggestion, more able to understand, and therefore more willing... | |
 | 1854 - 618 pages
...the only true secret of assisting the poor is by making them agents in bettering their own condition, and to supply them, not with a temporary stimulus,...cooperate in any plan proposed for their advantage, aud more likely to listen to any reasonable suggestion, and more able to understand, and therefore... | |
 | John Francis Bray - 1839 - 242 pages
...the only true secret of assisting the poor, is to make them agents in bettering their own condition, and to supply them, not with a temporary stimulus, but with a permanent energy." The admissions of the economists go not only to show that the present social system is radically defective,... | |
 | Society for improving the condition of the labouring classes - 1840 - 168 pages
...the only true secret of assisting the poor is to make them agents in bettering their own condition, and to supply them, not with a temporary stimulus,...more and more able to co-operate in any plan proposed *"* their advantage, more likely to listen to any reasonsuggestion, more able to understand, and therefore... | |
 | George Moody - 1843 - 444 pages
...the only true secret of assisting the poor is to make them agents in bettering their own condition, and to supply them, not with a temporary stimulus,...standard of intelligence is raised, the poor become mi>re and more able to co-operate in any plan proposed for their advantage, and more likely to listen... | |
 | 1843 - 948 pages
...the only true secret of assisting the poor is to make them agents in bettering their o*n condition, and to supply them, not with a temporary stimulus,...as the standard of intelligence is raised, the poor "ecomc more and more able to co-operate in any plan proposed for their advantage, and more likely to... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1849 - 686 pages
...the only true secret of assisting the poor is to make them agents in bettering their own condition, and to supply them, not with a temporary stimulus,...co-operate in any plan proposed for their advantage, more likely to listen to any reasonable suggestion, more able to understand, and therefore more willing... | |
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