| United States. Bureau of Fisheries - Fisheries - 1878 - 1106 pages
...town since the day it was uttered. " For some time past, Mr. Speaker," said Burke, " has the Old World been fed from the New. The scarcity which you have...desolating famine, if this child of your old age, — if America, — with a true filial piety, with a Roman charity, had not put the full breast of... | |
| 254 pages
...of the century some of these colonies imported corn from the mother country. For some time past, the Old World has been fed from the New. The scarcity...would have been a desolating famine, if this child of 10 your old age, with a true filial piety, with a Roman charity, had not put the full breast of its... | |
| English essays - 1775 - 652 pages
...old world has been fed from the new. The fcarcity which you have felt would have bten a defolating famine ; if this child of your old age, with a true...piety, with a Roman charity, had not put the full breaft of its youthful exuberance to the mouth of its exhaulteil partnt. As to the wealth which the... | |
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