Historical dissertations on the law and practice of Great Britain, and particularly of Scotland, with regard to the poor; on the modes of charity; and on the means of promoting the improvement of the people; together with a selection of facts and documents, and miscellaneous inquiries, illustrative of the management of the poor in Scotland, and in various parts of the continent of Europe, &c / by the Rev. Robert Burns.

  • Burns, Robert, 1789-1869.
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Historical dissertations on the law and practice of Great Britain, and particularly of Scotland, with regard to the poor; on the modes of charity; and on the means of promoting the improvement of the people; together with a selection of facts and documents, and miscellaneous inquiries, illustrative of the management of the poor in Scotland, and in various parts of the continent of Europe, &c / by the Rev. Robert Burns. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Glasgow : Printed by Young, Gallie, and Company, for Peter Hill and Company, Edinburgh; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London; Reid and Henderson, Glasgow; A. Brown and Co., Aberdeen; and Johnston and Deas, Dublin, 1819.

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xviii pages, 1 unnumbered leaf, 503 pages : 2 folded tables ; 23 cm

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2nd. ed., enl.

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