Surely then, better even than the annihilation of beggary will be its reformation, should this be possible.
What folly is it then, nay what culpable negligence, nay what nothing short of criminality to sink this human gold in the bogs of beggary and destitution!
They had a very graceful, bashful archness of manner, and they insinuated beggary so winningly, that it would have been impossible for hungry people to deny them.
Beggary is attended by no disgrace in Italy, and it therefore comes that no mendicant is without a proper degree of the self-respect common to all classes.
I add beggary as a vice to drinking and policy-buying as the next most active agency in the work of making paupers and criminals.
She would cut off her rebellious daughter with a shilling; give her up to the beggary and obscurity which she had chosen, and leave her whole fortune to Lady Lincourt; for so, in the fulness of her content, she called Laura.
If the great man in a Republic cannot win office without descending to low arts and whining beggary and the judicious use of sneaking lies, let him remain in retirement, and use the pen.
Pretence and grimace and sordid beggary for votes will some day cease to avail.
There 's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.
The poverty and beggary in the Lyapinsky house had horrified me, and I felt myself guilty of it; I felt the desire and the possibility of improvement.
The splendid robes of ecclesiastical Rome have a draggled fringe of beggary and vice.
Any account of the beggars of Rome without mention of the Capuchins and Franciscans would be like performing the "Merchant of Venice" with no Shylock; for these orders are founded in beggary and supported by charity.
But of the present scheme, what effect can be expected but ignominy and shame, disgrace abroad, and beggary at home?
There is nothing of the customary squalidness of beggary about him, but remarkable trimness and cleanliness.
Here beggaryis a system, and beggars are a numerous class, and make themselves, in a certain way, respected as such.
For, if beggary be not able to beat out pride, it cannot deserve charity.
In short, I saw not one single house, in the best town I travelled through, which had not manifest appearances of beggary and want.
But the thought of his children in the heedless days of their innocence, condemned to beggary by a fraud against nature, again scattered these subsiding feelings like the blast that brushes the waves of the ocean into spindrift.
I was just like to be devour't into beggary by them.
Those who live by beggary are flatterers and liars and detractors and thieves and avoiders of justice.
If he sells his goods at nearly the same price, he cannot have the same profit; and poverty and beggary at least, if not bankruptcy and ruin, will infallibly be his lot.
In every homestead this is sad, That beggary should want for knowledge.
Tears flow fast for the man, For beggary has lost its strength.
Remember thou, of ruddy cheeks, The claims we on the Saxon have; Oppression and beggary all thy days, When that their oppression throve.
Such foundlings often fell into the hands of those whose trade was beggary and who trained children for the same profession.
Aside from beggary and petty crimes their only source of income was the sale of their votes, and this made them a real menace to the Republic.
There was nothing but immediate beggary before her.
The horrible thought of want and beggary drove her once to think she would go back to her uncle and aunt and ask them to forgive her and have pity on her.
And some, in beggary and wretchedness, wandered through weary years, in foreign lands, envying the fate of those who had found a more speedy death.
Merchants and their families who had lived all their lives in independence and luxury, were reduced tobeggary by this mania for gold.
To all the golden visions of France there succeeded a period of confusion, of bankruptcies, of beggary and ruin, deep and piteous in proportion as the excitement had been high.
Oriental voluptuousness and luxury reigned in the palaces of the beys; beggary and wretchedness deformed the mud hovels of the defrauded and degraded people.
It is impossible not to deplore those events which have thus consigned anew these fertile regions to beggary and to barbarism.
