Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Essays on the Public Charities of Philadelphia: Intended to Vindicate the Benevolent Societies of This City From the Charge of Encouraging Idleness, and to Place in Strong Relief, Before an Enlightened Public
To prove the advantages resulting from benevolent societies, and thus to induce the wealthy, who have hearts to feel for human misery, to afford them liberal aid, and enable them to widely extend the sphere of their humane operations, I will state the effects of the benig nant interference of some of the ladies of one of those socie ties.
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