A Discourse delivered in the Chapel of the New Alms-House, in Portsmouth, N.H. ... on the Occasion of its Being First Opened for Religious Services

by Charles Burroughs

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Modern cloth-backed marbled paper covered boards. A discourse on pauperism. One of the most momentous and interesting subjects of political economy is the nature of public provision for relief of the poor. It is a subject, that deeply affects the civil, social, religious, and moral concerns of the community. It has long awakened the liveliest solicitude of enlightened nations, and has become a fruitful theme for legislation, philosophical inquiry, and moral

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