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" The interposition of the labour of going out and bringing home water from a distance, acts as an obstacle to the formation of better habits; and I deem it an important principle to be borne in mind, that in the actual condition of the lower classes, conveniences... "
A report &c. [of the first annual festival of the Holy gild of st. Joseph ... - Page lvii
by Holy gild of st. Joseph - 1843
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 71

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1843 - 626 pages
...and bringing home water from a distance acts as an obstacle to the formation of better habits ; and in the actual condition of the lower classes, conveniences...this description must precede and form the habits. Even with persons of a higher condition the habits are greatly dependent on the conveniences : it is...
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Report to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department ...

Great Britain. Poor Law Commissioners, Edwin Chadwick - 1842 - 556 pages
...town, or of any considerable collection of habitations, appears to be essentially defective, insofar as it leaves a large proportion of the inhabitants...precede or anticipate and create the conveniences. Even I' with persons of a higher condition, the habits are greatly dependent on the conveniences, and it...
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Descriptive Essays, Volume 2

Sir Francis Bond Head - 1857 - 412 pages
...and bringing home water from a distance, acts as an obstacle to the formation of better habits ; and in the actual condition of the lower classes, conveniences...this description must precede and form the habits. Even with persons of a higher condition the habits are greatly dependent on the conveniences : it is...
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The Early Sociology of Health and Illness, Volume 1

Kevin White - 2001 - 312 pages
...and bringing home water from a distance acts as an obstacle to the formation of better habits; and in the actual condition of the lower classes, conveniences...this description must precede and form the habits. Even with persons of a higher condition the habits are greatly dependent on the conveniences: it is...
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