 | Deane W. Curtin, Lisa M. Heldke - 1992 - 412 pagina’s
...almost as hopeful a Condition. They cannot get Work, and consequently pine away for want of Nourishment, to a degree, that if at any Time they are accidentally hired to common Labour, they have not Strength to perform it, and thus the Country and themselves are happily delivered from the Evils to... | |
 | Theodore W. Allen - 1994 - 324 pagina’s
...their own children. The workers were generally unemployed, but their deprivation was such, he said, that "if at any time they are accidentally hired to common labour, they have not strength to perform it."41 During the worst of these eighteenth-century famines, in 1740-41, a country... | |
 | Gloria Levine, Princeton Review (Firm) - 2003 - 271 pagina’s
...as hopeful a condition. They cannot get work, and consequently pine away from want of nourishment, to a degree, that if at any time they are accidentally hired to common labour, they have not strength to perform it, and thus the country and themselves are happily delivered from the evils to... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 2004 - 290 pagina’s
...almost as hopeful a condition. They cannot get work, and consequently pine away for want of nourishment, to a degree that if at any time they are accidentally hired to common labour, they have not strength to perform it; and thus the country and themselves are happily delivered from the evils to... | |
 | Seumas MacManus - 2005 - 737 pagina’s
...filth and vermin. The younger labourers cannot get work, and pine away for want of nourishment to such a degree that if at any time they are accidentally hired to commence labour, they have not the strength to perform it." When William took from Ireland its woollen... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 pagina’s
...in as hopeful a condition; they cannot get work, and consequently pine away for want of nourishment, to a degree that if at any time they are accidentally hired to common labor, they have not strength to perform it; and thus the country and themselves are happily delivered... | |
 | 490 pagina’s
...wrote Swift in 1727; "the younger labourers could not get bread and pine away for want of nourishment to a degree that if at any time they are accidentally hired to common labour they have not the strength to perform it."1 In these terrible years " the poor were sunk to the lowest degree of... | |
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... is very well known that they are every day dying and rotting by cold and famine, and filth and vermin, as fast as can be reasonably expected. And as to the... 
