Woman in America: Her Work and Her RewardD. Appleton & Company, 1850 - 155 páginas |
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Página 147 - Very curious. The forlorn Irish Widow applies to her fellow-creatures, as if saying, 'Behold I am sinking, bare of help: ye must help me! I am your sister, bone of your bone; one God made us: ye must help me!' They answer, 'No, impossible; thou art no sister of ours.
Página 146 - A poor Irish Widow, her husband having died in one of the Lanes of Edinburgh, went forth with her three children, bare of all resource, to solicit help from the Charitable Establishments of that City. At this Charitable Establishment and then at that she was refused ; referred from one to the other, helped by none ; — till she had exhausted them all ; till her strength and heart failed her : she sank down in typhus-fever ; died, and infected her Lane with fever, so that ' seventeen other persons'...
Página 124 - Not for to hide it in a hedge, Nor for a train attendant ; But for the glorious privilege Of being independent.