Author: Henry Cockburn

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-03-23

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 9780365413509

Excerpt from Journal of Henry Cockburn, 1874: Being a Continuation of the Memorials of His Time Of all the new features of modern society in Britain, none is so peculiar or frightful as the hordes of strong poor, always liable to be thrown out of employ ment by stagnation of trade. There have been above of them in Paisley for more than a year; and a similar cloud darkens every considerable town in Scotland. In Edinburgh, besides its fullest comple ment of ordinary distress, We have a battalion of at least 1200 of what are now known by the almost technical term of Unemployed Poor. Work (gene. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.