| 1843 - 574 pagini
...sunshine at their cabin-doors, with no work, scarcely any food, no hope seemingly. Strong countrymen arc lying in bed "for the hunger " — because a man lying...on his back does not need so much food as a person a-foot. Many of them have torn up the unripe potatoes from their little gardens, and to exist now must... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1848 - 392 pagini
...millions. There are thousands of them at this minute stretched in the sunshine at their cabin doors with no work, scarcely any food, no hope seemingly....on his back does not need so much food as a person a-foot. Many of them have torn up the unripe potatoes from their little gardens, and tn exist now must... | |
| 1849 - 644 pagini
...millions. There are thousands of them at this minute stretched in the sunshine at their cabin doors with no work, scarcely any food, no hope seemingly. Strong countrymen are lying in bed "jbr the hunger" — because a man lying on his back does not need so much food as a person a-foot.... | |
| 1852 - 464 pagini
...mi1lions. There are thousands of them, at this minute, stretched in the sunshine at their cabin doors with no work, scarcely any food, no hope seemingly. Strong countrymen are lying in bed, 'for the hunger'—because a man lying on his back does not need so much food as a person a-foot. Many of them... | |
| Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1854 - 588 pagini
...population is " starving by millions" and where strong countrymen, unable to get work, are lying in bed "/or the hunger" because a man, lying on his back, does not need so much food as a person on foot ;" where whole districts, over which the process of eviction has swept, appear like enormous... | |
| Henry Charles Carey - 1856 - 244 pagini
...millions. There are thousands of them, at this minute, stretched in the sunshine at their cabin doors with no work, scarcely any food, no hope seemingly....on his back does not need so much food as a person a-foot. Many of them have torn up the unripe potatoes from their little gardens, and to exist now must... | |
| John Philip Sanderson - 1856 - 380 pagini
...There are thousands of them, at this minute, stretched in the sunshine at their cabin doors with 710 work, scarcely any food, no hope seemingly. Strong...on his back does not need so much food as a person a-foot. Many of them have torn up the unripe potatoes from their little gardens, and to exist now must... | |
| John Philip Sanderson - 1856 - 380 pagini
...stretched in the sunshine at their cabin doors with no work, scarcely any food, no hope •eemingly. Strong countrymen are lying in bed, 'for the hunger'...on his back does not need so much food as a person a-foot. Many of them have torn up the unripe potatoes from their little gardens, and to exist now must... | |
| John Philip Sanderson - 1856 - 404 pagini
...stretched in the sunshine at their cabin doors with no work, scarcely any food, no hope •eemingly. Strong countrymen are lying in bed, 'for the hunger'...on his back does not need so much food as a person a-foot. Many of them have torn up the unripe potatoes from their little gardens, and to exist now must... | |
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