 Miserably clad, disgustingly filthy, squalid, meagre, and famished, the practitioner for employment had yet humour in his eye, and observation in his countenance. Occasionally ready to assist, and always prompt to flatter, he did neither gratuitously....  Florence Macarthy: An Irish Tale - Seite 21von Lady Morgan (Sydney) - 1818Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
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...When the traTellers with their servants had landed on the pier, they were accosted by the profli.'li left him without motive for industry, in a country...industry is no refuge from distress, he yet preserved the viuJictiveness of conscious degradation; and there was frequently .• deep-seated sincerity iu his... | |
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