Virago, he had been much impressed by the spiritual destitution of the Indians of the Pacific coast of British North America and the adjacent islands.
We must preserve not only the bodies of the unemployed from destitutionbut also their self-respect, their self-reliance and courage and determination.
And during the last three months, the weekly voluntary gathering of his brother workmen, or the allowance from his club, has sufficed; and he died without destitution actually coming to his door.
It is also the duty of the master to attend to such cases of destitution as may be presented at the Union-House gate; and, if their necessities be of a sudden and urgent character, to admit them into the house.
He sees destitution so frequently connected with imprudence, laziness, and crime, that he is apt to believe that the union is indissoluble.
While the destitute confirmed pauper would annoy, insult, and extract relief, by the scandal of so much squalid destitution lying and crouching about the overseer's door.
So a petition was framed, and signed by thousands in the bright spring days of 1839, imploring Parliament to hear witnesses who could testify to the unparalleled destitution of the manufacturing districts.
In Ireland, the growth of the Poor Law, from its first introduction, has been still more rapid and alarming, as might have been anticipated from the greater mass of indigence and destitution with which it there had to contend.
In the former, fortune marries fortune, or rank is allied to rank; in the latter, poverty is linked to poverty, and destitution engenders destitution.
Poverty is allied to poverty by the recklessness invariably produced by destitution among the poor.
A gift of God bestowed upon doctors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
But the person of spiritual unworth is successfully tempted to the Adversary to eat of lettuce with destitution of oil, mustard, egg, salt and garlic, and with a rascal bath of vinegar polluted with sugar.
Mournful records were they all,--sad stories of destitution and want, a whole people struck down by famine and sickness, and a land perishing in utter misery.
The linen manufacture for a while prospered, and afforded a limited relief in a few places; but tillage was declining, and destitution was all round.
He regarded the laws with despair, and piteously bemoaned the destitution and degradation in which the people were fixed.
He mounted the toboggan and went down the slide, landing in a few years in the gulch of destitution and near the precipice of suicide.
Here in destitution and despair on the day after Christmas, 1893, the Rev.
Napoleon treated the old man with great kindness and asked, through an interpreter, why he lived in such utter destitution of all the comforts of life, assuring him that an unreserved answer should expose him to no inconvenience.
All his hopes seemed doomed to disappointment, and destitution stared him in the face; yet one more trial he determined to make, although that one he promised should be the last.
Under various pretexts the money promised them was reduced and withheld, until destitution compelled them to accept the little that was offered.
Duvergier de Hauranne, a Frenchman who visited the island in 1826, writes: "Ireland is the land of anomalies; the most deplorable destitution on the richest of soils.
At the present day it is almost impossible to give any details and move the reader by a picture of the complete spiritualdestitution of the Irish immigrant in his new home.
In another large mansion, near the same place, Was found a deplorable, heart-rending case Of entire destitution of Brussels point-lace.
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As soon as Bakun saw her, she rose in respect and advanced to meet her, and fear get hold of her and she fell a- trembling, as if he had the ague.
Thus, beings like ourselves daily wait in destitution on our compassion till we give them leave to live!
His threadbare coat had that look of neatness which marks that destitution has been met by a long struggle.
