A treatise on indigence ; exhibiting a general view of the national resources for productive labour ; with propositions for ameliorating the condition of the poor, and improving the moral habits and increasing the comforts of the labouring people, particularly the rising generation ; by regulations of political economy, calculated to prevent poverty from descending indo indigence, to produce sobriety and industry, to reduce the parochial rates of the Kingdom, and generally to promote the happiness and security of the community at large, by the diminution of moral and penal offences, and the future prevention of crimes. By P. Colquhoun,...

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Editeur / Publisher : London : printed for J. Hatchard, bookseller to her Majesty, n°190, Picadilly. 1806 , 1806

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Langue / Language : anglais / English

Pauvreté -- Aspect économique -- Grande-Bretagne

Pauvres -- Grande-Bretagne -- 19e siècle

Conditions sociales -- Grande-Bretagne -- 19e siècle

Hatchard, John (1768-1849) (Libraire / bookseller)

Gosnell, Samuel (17..-18.. ; imprimeur) (Imprimeur / printer)