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Page 105
Car . had every week eight quarters of wheat dinal Morton rebuilt it about the year
made into bread for the poor , besides his 1490 in the manner we at present see
it . alms - dishes , fragments of bis house , and This is perhaps the most ...
Car . had every week eight quarters of wheat dinal Morton rebuilt it about the year
made into bread for the poor , besides his 1490 in the manner we at present see
it . alms - dishes , fragments of bis house , and This is perhaps the most ...
Page 106
The name of Grafton , in sion upon those that by any misfortune the old English
character , is perfectly were decaid , and had fallen from wealth legible , and near
it are to be seen a cross , to poor estate . " and other figures rudely delineated .
The name of Grafton , in sion upon those that by any misfortune the old English
character , is perfectly were decaid , and had fallen from wealth legible , and near
it are to be seen a cross , to poor estate . " and other figures rudely delineated .
Page 207
... he went to the parson , who said seer for the poor ; and , in the course of The
decline , that terminated her life on the he'd never paid any poor sess . 7th of
August 1806. But to all her quaker said , good naturedly , “ Oh , hasn't thee ; and
how ...
... he went to the parson , who said seer for the poor ; and , in the course of The
decline , that terminated her life on the he'd never paid any poor sess . 7th of
August 1806. But to all her quaker said , good naturedly , “ Oh , hasn't thee ; and
how ...
Page 242
Poor Sophia having ing the rest of the crew , with the been taken out of her bed ,
had nothing Captaio , & c . still on board , we pulled on but a wrapper , neither
shoes nor back to her under the bows , so as to be stockings ; the children were ...
Poor Sophia having ing the rest of the crew , with the been taken out of her bed ,
had nothing Captaio , & c . still on board , we pulled on but a wrapper , neither
shoes nor back to her under the bows , so as to be stockings ; the children were ...
Page 345
... poor no redemp- expence , of singular portability , and tion in his poverty and
wretchedness ; possessing the valuable property of inthe King himself found it at
m dnight stantaneously changing ihe spectre glaring in his face from the opposite
...
... poor no redemp- expence , of singular portability , and tion in his poverty and
wretchedness ; possessing the valuable property of inthe King himself found it at
m dnight stantaneously changing ihe spectre glaring in his face from the opposite
...
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Page 92 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers ! hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear : believe me for mine honour, and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe : censure me in your wisdom, and awake your senses, that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Page 391 - In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality ; that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.
Page 180 - I have traversed the seat of war in the Peninsula, I have been in some of the most oppressed provinces of Turkey, but never under the most despotic of infidel governments did I behold such squalid wretchedness as I have seen since my return in the very heart of a Christian country.
Page 179 - Now though in a free country it were to be wished that our military should never be too formidable, at least to ourselves, I cannot see the policy of placing them in situations where they can only be made ridiculous. As the sword is the worst argument that can be used, so should it be the last. In this instance it has been the first ; but providentially as yet only in the scabbard. The present measure will, indeed, pluck it from the sheath ; yet had proper meetings been held in the earlier stages...
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Page 181 - But suppose it passed; suppose one of these men, as I have seen them, - meagre with famine, sullen with despair, careless of a life which your Lordships are perhaps about to value at something less than the price of a stockingframe...
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Page 235 - The ship was every thing we could wish ; and having closed my charge here much to my satisfaction, it was one of the happiest days of my life. We were, perhaps, too happy ; for in the evening came a sad reverse. Sophia had just gone to bed, and I had thrown off half my clothes, when a cry of fire, fire! roused us from our calm content, and in five minutes the whole ship was in flames! I ran to examine whence the flames principally issued, and found that the fire had its origin immediately under our...
Page 180 - Are we aware of our obligations to a mob? It is the mob that labour in your fields and serve in your houses - that man your navy, and recruit your army - that have enabled you to defy all the world, and can also defy you when neglect and calamity have driven them to despair! You may call the people a mob; but do...
Page 179 - When we are told that these men are leagued together not only for the destruction of their own comfort, but of their very means of subsistence, can we forget that it is the bitter policy, the destructive warfare of the last eighteen years, which has destroyed their comfort, your comfort, all men's comfort ? that policy, which, originating with "great statesmen now no more...