"Public charity" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... washing was one of the many drawbacks to public charity which Garrison shivered at. As the warm weather set in he accordingly took full advantage of the free baths at the Battery. On his second day's dip, as he was leaving, a man whom he had noticed intently scanning the bathers tapped him on ...
— Garrison's Finish - A Romance of the Race-Course • W. B. M. Ferguson
... in maintaining himself, and would rather get along on one meal a day, earned by himself in honest independence, than be indebted to public charity even for ...
— The Young Musician - or, Fighting His Way • Horatio Alger
... Peyrade, "without venturing to understand you, I must remark that my uncle died so poor, you tell me, that public charity ...
— The Lesser Bourgeoisie • Honore de Balzac
... English yeoman averse to live upon public charity is highly advantageous to the industry and virtue of the nation. Even where it is instilled early into families as a prejudice, it is useful, ...
— Tales & Novels, Vol. 2 • Maria Edgeworth
... paternal roof. And, in all fairness, I would extend my rule to men. I would make, not a property, but an independence qualification. A man who lives on a dollar a day, if he owns it or earns it, should vote; but the son who depends upon a rich father for support, and the pauper who lives upon public charity, should not vote. Socially, both are minors. We might even say, that, financially, both are unweaned. Why should they not be minors politically? This plan would really be ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 • Various
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