The state or quality of being kind, charitable, or beneficial. (from American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th ed). The ethical principle of BENEFICENCE requires producing net benefit over harm. (Bioethics Thesaurus)
    

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Hospital for Incurables, Blackwell Island, New York. Wood engraving by W.S.L. Jewett.

The Foundling Hospital, Holborn, London: a perspective view looking north-east at the main building, with penitent mothers arriving beside a statue of fortune. Engraving by C. Grignion and P. C. Canot after S. Wale, 1749.

A Nun (Sister of Charity) bloodletting a seated patient. Line engraving.

Works of mercy: just as water extinguishes fire, so works of mercy (with penitence) extinguish sin. Engraving attributed to T. Galle, 1601.

Fashionable London comes to observe Sunday lunch at the Foundling Hospital. Wood engraving by J. Swain, 1872, after H.T. Green.

The good Samaritan seeing to a man's wounds while a priest and Levite walk into the distance. Etching by W. Unger after F.G. Bassano the younger.

Aske's Hospital, Shoreditch, London: the facade. Engraving.

Saint Martin of Tours: he divides his cloak with a poor man. Etching after M. Schongauer.

The good Samaritan pouring oils on a wounded half-dead man. Line engraving by P. Casteels after S. Rosa.

The blind beggar of Bethnal Green. Mezzotint by W. Ward, 1804, after W. Owen.

A new entertainment for Christmas. By the author of three letters on benevolence and charity, published in the Cheshire advertiser, in December, 1756

Remarks on the postscript to The case of the dissenting ministers, by Israel Mauduit; in a letter to that gentleman. Being a full and faithful representation of the proceedings of those ministers, as to the late application to Parliament. By a firm friend

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A new entertainment for Christmas. By the author of three letters on benevolence and charity, published in the Cheshire advertiser, in December, 1756

Remarks on the postscript to The case of the dissenting ministers, by Israel Mauduit; in a letter to that gentleman. Being a full and faithful representation of the proceedings of those ministers, as to the late application to Parliament. By a firm friend