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Example sentences for "public charity"

  • A man was to be regarded as fulfilling the educational requirement if he were able to write, and the social requirement if simply he were not a recipient of public charity.

  • Furnishing free meals and clothing to needy school children; such service not to be counted as public charity.

  • Admission of workmen to the administration of the councils of hospitals and of public charity.

  • When the fact that the well-to-do do not end thus is taken into consideration, it becomes manifest that it is the fate of at least one in every three adult workers to die on public charity.

  • The clergy, which for many years had received no salary at all and had been supported by public charity, saw itself reinstated in its old revenues.

  • When finally the malarial fever had driven the English out of the country, the plundered provinces had to be kept alive by public charity.

  • Amsterdam is reduced from the richest city in Europe to a forgotten nest, where the grass grows on the streets and where half of the population is kept alive by public charity.

  • If a tithe of such marriage expenses were devoted to Public Charity, the poor and helpless would ceaselessly chant the names of such donors, and the reward would be something better than the transient admiration of the idle populace.

  • But then there was no regularly organised system of Public Charity, nor had the people any idea of it.

  • A grant to a private trustee, for the benefit of a particular cestui que trust, or for any special, private, or public charity, cannot be the less a contract because the trustee takes nothing for his own benefit.

  • When the necessary formalities have been gone through, the corpses in the amphitheatre are divided into two series: those claimed by relatives, and those which are left to public charity.

  • It is hoped that such an end will be avoided, and that it will carry a lesson with it--a horror for relying on public charity; but it nevertheless deals a direct blow at every feeling of respect for kith and kin.

  • After living all my life on public charity, I was able to give in my turn; and this thought gratified my pride, and increased my importance in my own eyes.

  • Nowhere in France is public charity, I am told, so extensively and efficiently organised, and the demands upon public charity are exceptionally great.

  • So much for the abuse and extent of public charity.

  • The gravest problem of public charity is the support and training of dependent children, because that has to do with the making of future citizens of the republic as well as the relief of immediate suffering.

  • This form of public charity, like many others, has been abused, and many children are now supported in institutions who probably should not be there.

  • One can not but be moved to such a question by either of two papers which have recently appeared in these pages: I mean that entitled Abuse of Public Charity, by Comptroller Bird S.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    country seat; elegiac verse; headed windows; made with; public administration; public attention; public business; public character; public confession; public conveyances; public disputation; public duty; public expenditure; public inspection; public justice; public meetings; public morality; public morals; public nuisance; public penance; public profession; public spirit; public taste; public welfare; publicly perform; white field