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1 In England they have a poor-rate : they wish me to pay this tax.
2 The irony of my paying a poor-rate used to amuse me.
3 What is the amount of the poor-rate in the parish of Sandsting?-It is 2s.
4 They have never paid any poor-rate , and yet hunger after "relief meal."
5 Within two years the poor-rate was diminished fully one-third.
6 In England (not including Scotland and Ireland) the poor-rate was:
7 You took no thought for rent and taxes; you had no poor among you - no poor-rate collectors.
8 S: Who keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate , and of the hereafter, they are sure.
9 In the former year we find the poor-rate highest in Sussex, about twenty shillings to every inhabitant.
10 S: (To) those who do not give poor-rate and they are unbelievers in the hereafter.
11 S: Those who keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate and they are certain of the hereafter.
12 S: And keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate and bow down with those who bow down.
13 In the first place, the poor-rate is very decidedly lower in the manufacturing than in the agricultural districts.
14 In 1842 the amount of the poor-rate averaged from 7_s.
15 The self-respect of the poor was destroyed, and the poor-rate became a burden of millions of pounds annually upon the treasury.
16 S: And keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate and obey the Messenger, so that mercy may be shown to you.
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