 | Edmund Burke - 1865 - 592 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...youthful exuberance to the mouth of its exhausted parent. As to the wealth which the colonies have drawn from the sea by their fisheries, you had all that matter... | |
 | John Leander Bishop, Edwin Troxell Freedley, Edward Young - Industries - 1866 - 649 pages
...following expressive imagery : "For some time past, the Old World has been fed from the New. The scarcity you have felt would have been a desolating famine,...exuberance to the mouth of its exhausted parent." The exports, from the peace of 1783 to the formation of the present government, cannot be known. The... | |
 | John Leander Bishop, Edwin Troxell Freedley, Edward Young - Industries - 1866 - 662 pages
...expressive imagery: " For some time past, the Old World has been fed from the New. The scarcity yon have felt would have been a desolating famine, if...breast of its youthful exuberance to the mouth of its exhansted parent." The exports, from the peace of 1783 to the formation of the present government,... | |
 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 pages
...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...youthful exuberance to the mouth of its exhausted parent.1 As to the wealth which the colonies have drawn from the sea by their fisheries, you had all... | |
 | Angela Gillespie, Member of the Order of the Holy Cross - Elocution - 1871 - 664 pages
...guide you I 40. ENTERPRISE OP AMERICAN COLONISTa FOR some time past, Mr. Speaker, 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... | |
 | Patrick O'Shea - 1873 - 524 pages
...past, Mr. Speaker, has the Old World been fed from the New. The scarcity which you have felt woiild have been a 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 its... | |
 | Richard Salter Storrs - Emigration and immigration - 1875 - 120 pages
...and imagination cold and barren." Of their expanding agriculture, he said: " For some time past the Old World has been fed from the New. The scarcity...exuberance to the mouth of its exhausted parent." Of the fisheries of the colonies, especially of the whale-fishery, he spoke in words whose fame is... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1875 - 968 pages
...of the century, some of these colonies imported corn from the mother country. For some lime past the his hour, became lord of the ascendant. This light, too, is passed a parent.9 9 It may be doubted whether this amplification, aud the more graphic one which follows in... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1876 - 660 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...youthful exuberance to the mouth of its exhausted parent. As to the wealth which the colonies have drawn from the sea by their fisheries, you had all that matter... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1876 - 536 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...youthful exuberance to the mouth of its exhausted parent. As to the wealth which the colonies have drawn from the seas by their fisheries, you had all that matter... | |
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For some time past, the old world has been fed from the new. The scarcity which you have felt would have been a desolating famine, if this child of your old age, with a true filial piety, with a Roman charity, had not put the full breast of its youthful... 
