The strange, symbiotic relationship between medicine and social oppression is here given full-colour form: not only by anatomical illustrations of paupers' and criminals' corpses, but also by what – were they not so disfigured – would be regarded as straightforward portraits of the leprous and the syphilitic, the tubercular and the cancerous.
These riverboat exiles are not cheats or paupers.
Thus was born the Bank of England.In this section Greece lightning Two tiers, too complex The Swiss diet Pulling for the home team Correction: Europe's bail-out plan Broke broker All change He who pays the paupers… ReprintsCentral banks routinely serve as their government's agent: they accept payments, disburse outlays, auction and redeem their bonds.
His fabulous wealth made the greedy Burmese generals look like paupers.
Simone de Beauvoir asked of Brasilia, "What possible interest could there be in wandering about?" A visiting New Zealand city councillor said of Canberra in the 1970s, "The atmosphere is one of job security sans paupers, sans criminals, sans unemployed, sans vitality and sans colour".
Recent buoyant revenues, fruits of 9% annual economic growth, have been poured into vast welfare schemes: to employ rural paupers, forgive loans to small farmers, and so on.
Sarju and other paupers have been issued with "above the poverty line", or APL, ration cards, entitling them to some subsidised kerosene.
In making money for Harvard Mr Pusey demonstrated to all universities that they need not be paupers.
Poorer Arab states are not about to become new Qatars, but many, such as Yemen, Tunisia, Sudan and Egypt, already export oil or gas, and the lingering energy paupers are doing better too.
These include a debt waiver for 30m small farmers announced in the budget last month; and a massive job-creation scheme for rural paupers which will go nationwide this year.
Many Americans grumble about the wealth of their politicians, but they are paupers compared with their Chinese counterparts.
