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... means . They result in breaking up the home through desertion of families and divorce and by cutting the roots of prudential restraint on the size of the family . They pre- vent the development of culture , the social use of leisure ...
... means . They result in breaking up the home through desertion of families and divorce and by cutting the roots of prudential restraint on the size of the family . They pre- vent the development of culture , the social use of leisure ...
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... means of pleasing God . The Psalmist declares , " Blessed is he that considereth the poor , " " He that giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord . " Throughout the ages of Christian history , this motive has lost nothing of its power ...
... means of pleasing God . The Psalmist declares , " Blessed is he that considereth the poor , " " He that giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord . " Throughout the ages of Christian history , this motive has lost nothing of its power ...
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... means not merely a lack of food , clothing and shelter , but also a condition of mental degrada- tion . " Sidney and Beatrice Webb , The Prevention of Destitution , London , New York , Bombay and Calcutta , 1912 , p . 1 . who are ...
... means not merely a lack of food , clothing and shelter , but also a condition of mental degrada- tion . " Sidney and Beatrice Webb , The Prevention of Destitution , London , New York , Bombay and Calcutta , 1912 , p . 1 . who are ...
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... mean to describe those who have a sufficiently regular though bare income , such as 18 to 21 s . per week for a ... means are insufficient for this according to the usual standard of life in this country . " 1Rowntree , Poverty : A ...
... mean to describe those who have a sufficiently regular though bare income , such as 18 to 21 s . per week for a ... means are insufficient for this according to the usual standard of life in this country . " 1Rowntree , Poverty : A ...
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... means the eco- nomic rent of land would be absorbed by the Government and thus there would be no object in owning land ; consequently , there would be land for anyone who wished to use it . 3. The English classic economists made some ...
... means the eco- nomic rent of land would be absorbed by the Government and thus there would be no object in owning land ; consequently , there would be land for anyone who wished to use it . 3. The English classic economists made some ...
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Page 133 - Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: for I was hungry, and ye gave me to eat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in; naked, and ye clothed me; I was sick, and ye visited me; I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
Page 11 - I hate, I despise your feast days, And I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them...
Page 434 - That for the purpose of this act the term " persons disabled " shall be construed to mean any person who, by reason of a physical defect or infirmity, whether congenital or acquired by accident, injury, or disease, is, or may be expected to be, totally or partially incapacitated for remunerative occupation...
Page 19 - Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles lord it over them ; and their great ones exercise authority over them. But it is not so among you: but whosoever would become great among you, shall be your minister : and whosoever would be first among you, shall be servant of all. For verily the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
Page 12 - Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God ? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old ? Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul...
Page 133 - Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? Or when saw we thee sick or in prison, and came unto thee?
Page 12 - To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me ? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts ; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
Page 134 - And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; 12 That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.
Page 13 - What shall we do then? 11 He answereth, and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none ; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise.