If landed estates, however, were divided equally among all the children, upon the death of any proprietor who left a numerous family, the estate would generally be sold.
In every other respect, nothing can be more contrary to the real interest of a numerous family, than a right which, in order to enrich one, beggars all the rest of the children.
Labour is there so well rewarded, that a numerous family of children, instead of being a burden, is a source of opulence and prosperity to the parents.
This, then, was the person who was to have been introduced to me as the friend in need, the meritorious father of a numerous family, whom the payment of a just debt was to relieve from imminent ruin!
That love, which a numerous family or kindred would divide among themselves, is all collected and centred in you.
Sir Ralph had a numerous family, likely to be still more so; had but slender patrimony; the income of his offices nearly made up his all.
My father had a small farm, on which he has been able, by industry, to maintain himself and a numerous family.
This lady, whose lineaments are almost as well known to Canadians as are those of His Lordship, still survives, and is the happy mother of a numerous family.
He gave rise to a numerous family, and in the autumn of 1852 moved and settled in Allen County, Ohio.
He has a numerous family of intelligent and godly children, all now grown up, and members of the Brethren church.
By his third marriage, with “Bess of Hardwick,” he had a numerous family, viz.
He that hath a numerous family, and many to provide for, needs a greater providence of God.
To rear a numerous family is always in a certain sense to colonize, even though all the children live within the limits of their native country.
Footnote 12: In the opening of the Life we find--"He was of a very timid disposition, and with extreme inconvenience devoted himself to incessant labour in order to provide for a numerous family.
They have also in particular reproached him with his excessive credulity, in representing him to us as a suffering and unhappy object, burdened with a numerous family, little appreciated and badly rewarded for his labours.
A year or two after the death of his first wife Peter Legh entered into a marriage with Margaret, daughter of Nicholas Tyldesley, and by her he had a numerous family--three sons and seven daughters.
Affectionate and cheerful in her dispositions, she was a loving and dutiful daughter, and shewed the tenderest attachment to a numerous familyof brothers and sisters.
At an early age he espoused his cousin, Miss Ballantyne, by whom he had a numerous family.
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