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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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Continued Wednesday 30th April 1783
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Visitation of God were become dangerous to the
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Community Accordingly the growing Charity was
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Cherished not only by Citizens, upon whose Notice it
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to select proper Objects of their Attention and Ability
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to Assist them. And here the Mind which rejoices
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to Indulge the Pleasing Sensations of benevolence
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cannot but feel the warnest glow when it Perceives
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how much the
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has been Indebted
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to secret unknown Benefactors Private Charity may
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not Perhaps excite and animate others so much as
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Public Benefactions but it affords the strongest
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He who Conceals his good Decds cannot Possibly be
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Influenced by any other than the purest motives it
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is the Merits of the Objects only that he regards these
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he weighs well before he gives his Alms and he is
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Seldom mistaken in their Application
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About the Year 1644 it was under
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Consideration to enlarge the
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but the
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being rendered a Commodions Asylum for the Numerous
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distracted Persons of both Sexes that claimed its
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Protection and Probably the dreadful Commotions of
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that period
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checked the Idea
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of Improvement. When
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Peace and legal Government were restored and England
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had rest from the Violence with which it had been
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Convals'd the Concerns of civil Society were again attended
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to and it became a matter of Serious Deliberation to
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Build a
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