 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. For months together, these...  Cassell's illustrated history of India - Page 228by James Grant - 1883Full view - About this book
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1807 - 464 pages
...was a people in beggary ; it was a nation which stretched out its hands for food. For months together these creatures of sufferance, whose very excess and...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... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1807 - 458 pages
...was a people in beggary ; it was a nation which stretched out its hands for food. For months together these creatures of sufferance, whose very excess and...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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 560 pages
...which stretched out its hands for food, for months together, these creatures of sufferance, whose wry excess and luxury in their most plenteous days, had...disturbance, almost without complaint, perished by an hundred a day in the streets of Madras ; every day seventy at least laid their bodies in the streets,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 316 pages
...was a people in beggary; it was a nation which stretched out its hands for food. For months together these creatures of sufferance, whose Very excess and...patient, resigned, without sedition or disturbance, ahuost without complaint, perished by a hundred a day in the streets of Madras; every day seventy at... | |
 | 1813 - 458 pages
...was a people in beggary ; it was a nation which stretched out its hands for food. For months together these creatures of sufferance, whose very excess and...plenteous days, had fallen short of the allowance of our austerost fasts, silent, patient, resigned, without sedition or disturbance, almost without complaint,... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1815 - 746 pages
...was a people in beggary ; it was a nation which stretched out its hands for food. For months together these creatures of sufferance, whose very excess and...disturbance, almost without complaint, perished by an hundred a day in the streets of Madras ; every day seventy at least laid thejr bodiesin the streets,... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1819 - 484 pages
...was a people in beggary ; it was a nation which stretched out its hands for food. For months together these creatures of sufferance^ whose very excess and...disturbance, almost without complaint, perished by an hundred a day in the streets of Madras ; every day seventy at least laid their bodies in the streets,... | |
 | 1821 - 522 pages
...was a people in beggary ; it was a nation which stretched out its hands for food. For months together these creatures of sufferance, whose very excess and...complaint, perished by a hundred a day in the streets of Madrass ; every day seventy at least laid their bodies in the streets, or on the glacis of Tanjore,... | |
 | John Galt - 1824 - 462 pages
...was a people in beggary; it was a nation which stretched out the hands for food. For months together these creatures of sufferance, whose very excess and...disturbance, almost without complaint, perished by an hundred a-day in the streets of Madras ; every day seventy at least laid their bodies in the streets,... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - 1828 - 314 pages
...was a people in beggary ; it was a nation that stretched out its hands for food. For months together these creatures of sufferance, whose very excess and...a day in the streets of Madras. Every day seventy laid their bodies in the streets, or on the glacis of Tanjore, and expired of famine in the granary... | |
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