 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1785 - 796 pages
...fell into the jaws cf famine. The alms of the fettlement, in this dreadful exigency, were certainly liberal; and all was done by charity that private charity could do : but it was m. people in beggary; it was a nation which ftretched out its hands for food. For month, together thefe... | |
 | Europe - 1785 - 522 pages
...this dregful exigency, were certainly libera! ; mi all was done by charity, that pmi-'t charity couid do; but it was a people in beggary ; it was a nation whirb ftretched out its hands for food. Fef months together thefe creatures of fufferancc, whole \cry... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1792 - 676 pages
...fell into the jaws of famine. The alms of the fettlement, in this dreadful exigency, were certainly liberal ; and all was done by charity that private...it was a people in beggary ; it was a nation which ftretched out its hands for food. For months together thefe creatures of fufferance, whofe very excefs... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1798 - 330 pages
...in this dreadful exigency, were certainly liberal ; and all was done by charity that private chanty could do : but it was a people in beggary ; it was a nation which ftrctche.d out its hands for .food. For months together thefe creatures of fufferance, whofe very excefs... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1803 - 474 pages
...into the jaws of famine. The alms of the fettlement, in this dreadful exigency, gency, were certainly liberal ; and all was done by charity that private...it was a people in beggary ; it was a nation which flretched out its hands for food.' For months together thefe creatures of fufferance, whofe very excefs... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1803 - 464 pages
...the jaws of famine. The alms of the fettlement, in this dreadful exigency, .ge»cy, were certainly liberal; and all was done by charity that private...it was a people in beggary; it was a nation which ftretched out its hands for food. For months together thefe creatures of fufferance, whofe very excefs... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1807 - 458 pages
...fell into the jaws of famine. The alms of the settlement, in this dreadful exigency, were certainly liberal ; and all was done by charity that private...resigned, without sedition or disturbance, almost without comlint, perished by a hundred a day in the streets of ladras ; every day seventy at least laid their... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1807 - 464 pages
...fell into the jaws of famine. The alms of the settlement, in this dreadful exigency, were certainly liberal ; and all was done by charity that private...resigned, without sedition or disturbance, almost without comlint, perished by a hundred a day in the streets of Madras ; every day seventy at least laid their... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1807 - 560 pages
...fell into the jaws of famine. The alms of the settlement, in this dreadful exigency, were certainly liberal ; and all was done by charity that private...months together, these creatures of sufferance, whose wry excess and luxury in their most plenteous days, had fallen short of the allowance of our austerest... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 316 pages
...dreadful exigency, were certainly liberal; and all was done by charity, that private charity conld do : but it was a people in beggary; it was a nation...patient, resigned, without sedition or disturbance, ahuost without complaint, perished by a hundred a day in the streets of Madras; every day seventy at... | |
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The alms of the settlement, in this dreadful exigency, were certainly liberal ; and all was done by charity that private charity could do : but it was a people in beggary ; it was a nation which stretched out its hands for food. 
