Hints respecting the distresses of the poor / By Dr. Lettsom.

  • John Coakley Lettsom
Date:
1796
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Credit: Hints respecting the distresses of the poor / By Dr. Lettsom. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    juftice might the whole female fex be cenfured for infidelity; becaufe a few worthlefs women, of rank, acquire more notoriety by mifconduct, than a thoufand of the moft amiable women by their virtues : for true worth feeks ob« fcurity rather than publicity; and I will ven¬ ture to add, that female virtue and chaftity of manners never prevailed at any one period in this kingdom, more than at the prefent time* To return to the fiate of the poor: let him who cenfures their improvidence, reflect upon his own expenfes, afk himfelf what he ex¬ pends on coals, on clothes, on waffling, on houfe-rent; nay, let him only calculate what he fpends for bread alone, an article in which there is rarely much wafte ; and he will then wonder how a poor man, with half-a-guinea a week, feeds and clothes a family, pays rent for his apartment, buys a few coals, and con¬ trives to exift. This wonder will be increafed, if he take into confideration, that by expofure to all weather ficknefs often fupervenes, and every refource is, in a moment, annihilated, I fhudder whilft I reflect what a dreadful A 2 profpedt
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