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Página 757 - Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no ^ flesh while the world standeth, * lest I make my brother to offend.
Página 1097 - I beg to move that the Bill be read a second time this day six months.
Página 323 - That overcrowding lowers the general standard, that the people get depressed and weary, is the testimony of those who are daily witnesses of the lives of the poor.
Página 1125 - Every house or tenement which is occupied solely for the purposes of any trade or business, or of any profession or calling by which the occupier seeks a livelihood or profit...
Página 43 - District Councils might not be minutely acquainted with them. You must go to the doors of the men who are immediately concerned. You must get from them, and from their immediate neighbours, the fullest advantage of local knowledge...
Página 323 - ... the encouragement by it of infectious disease. It has the effect of reducing their stamina and thus producing consumption and diseases arising from general debility of the system whereby life is shortened. Nothing stronger could be said in describing the effect of overcrowding than that it is even more destructive to general health than conducive to the spread of epidemic and contagious diseases.
Página 323 - ... classes. Some years ago the Board of Health instituted inquiries in the low neighbourhoods to see what was the amount of labour lost in the year, not by illness, but by sheer exhaustion and inability to do work. It was found that upon the lowest average every workman or workwoman lost about 20 days in the year from simple exhaustion, and the wages thus lost would go towards paying an increased rent for a better house.
Página 91 - I can afford to say no more than that my hopes of an extended Christianity, from the efforts of voluntaryism alone, have not been brightened by my experience since the disruption.
Página 77 - Establishment, and the personal sufferings and sacrifices to which they may be called, and would also inspire them with zeal and energy to promote the advancement of His Son's kingdom, in whatever condition it may be His will to place them ; and that, in His own good time, He would restore to them...
Página 77 - ... establishment, and the personal sufferings and sacrifices to which they may be called, and would also inspire them with zeal and energy to promote the advancement of his Son's kingdom, in whatever condition it may be his will to place them...

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