The history of Limerick, ecclesiastical, civil and military; from the earliest records, to the year 1787, illustrated by fifteen engravings. To which ... Spa, on water in general and cold bathi - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1787 Excerpt: ...if, as our Saviour has aflu G g " ' v'..; red The Irish.gentry do riot Want" humanity, but from a taste for luxury,,'or living beyond their Incomes, they complain tmidh of a snfalt tax, while Englishmen of the fa me; fortunes and in a much dearer country4 play four fhillirngs in the pound of all their rents lo support a Poor House in every-parish. W are hound by every social seeling, to maintain those se)lo«r creatures, who are dbortied to poverty, and who through ag« or infirmity, are unable to maintain themselves. red ii?,--"-k is.more blessed to give than to receive,"--.we ought to-look-on those wh6 ' yv&nt our assistance, as 'ib many friends and 'benefactors, who come to do us a greater good, than they can receive-, who come toexalt our virtue; to be witnesses of our charity, to be monuments of our love, to be our advocates with "gqd,-to appear for us at the-day of.judgement, and to help,us to a blessedness greater than our donations can bestow on them.:'f 'VX'M E;r Ic K k '0 c:t.:r% 'For the Relief and Discharge' of Persons Confined for small Debts, ' Was'instituted by the rev. Deane Hoare, on the 23d of September, 1775, and carried on, for some years, by donations and annual subscriptions; but, for some time past, by little more than casual donations.--Since its commencement, Mr, Hoare (the treasurers by she payment of two-mndTed and eighteen pounds, "'thirteen ' stiilllfigs,' and a Ifpenriy,-enlarged ninety-four persons, whose' debts amounted to seven hundred and-fiftyv-'fhtee pounds. nfine ihilling's and eight ence1,;by which "means such t number dt podi1 'perfbhfc were not only restored td their families and to the public, but they were at the fame time exonerated from the balance of. five huridred a...