| Edmund Burke - History - 1993 - 412 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...age, with a true filial piety, with a Roman charity, 31 had not put the full breast of refuse to spare what they themselves confess they could not miss;... | |
| Stephen H. Browne - History - 1993 - 172 pages
...the problem. Consider the following passage from the oration just mentioned: "For some time past the Old World has been fed from the New. The scarcity which you had felt would have been a desolating famine, if this child of your old age, with a true filial piety,... | |
| Edmund Burke - Political Science - 2000 - 540 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. As to the wealth which the colonies have drawn from the sea by their fisheries, you had all that matter... | |
| Stephen Reicher, Nick Hopkins - Psychology - 2001 - 260 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' (speech. House of Commons, 1775; cited in Jensen, 1977: 46). The range of metaphors apparent in past... | |
| Eduardo A. Velásquez - Family & Relationships - 2003 - 672 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.23 In this example of natural affection pursued to unnatural lengths in the succouring of the... | |
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