The people have been so dependent on them heretofore, that they have become thorough beggars.

You can have no knowledge, sir, of the whining, canting, deceit, and lies which those poor miserable labourers' wives palm on charitable ladies.

If they weren't angels, some of them, they'd lock up their purses and never give away another farthing.

And, sir, these free-schools, and these penny- clubs, and clothing clubs, and these heaps of money which are given away, all make the matter worse and worse.

They make the labourer fancy that he is not to depend upon God and his own right hand, but on what his wife can worm out of the good nature of the rich.