Penny Dreadfuls, 1781 · page 104 of 120
A Month's Tour, &c. — page 104: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Page 104 This is a page of running prose text from what appears to be a descriptive travel or social commentary work titled "A Month's Tour." The page discusses welfare provisions for Protestant poor in Dublin, comparing Irish parish collections and workhouses unfavorably to English poor relief systems. The text notes that Irish paupers view the House of Industry as a place of confinement rather than refuge, and reluctantly surrender their liberty and independence for its comforts. The passage then transitions to discussing Ireland's natural deficiencies, identifying a scarcity of coal and timber as primary disadvantages.
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—— a 104 A MONT TFRs: TOUR: Another refource for proteftant poor are the weekly colleétions made in all the pa- zifh churches, of which there are eighteen in Dublin, and two cathedrals. But thefe are by no means an adequate provifion for them, at leaft far inferior to that humane _.and compleat one which is made for the poor in England. . Their paupers,confider the houfe of Induftry as a place of confine- ment, rather than as an afylum from the wretchednefs of poverty, and it is with ex- treme reluétance they facrifice their native liberty, flothfulnefs and dirt, to the com- forts.which it affords, Asto the country of Ireland, it feems to have‘but two of what we may properly call “natural defects ; viz. a fcarcity of coal and ' timber: though, perhaps, even thefe mighe comicbooks.com