 | Edward Potts Cheyney - Great Britain - 1908 - 830 pages
...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 exuberance to the mouth of its exhausted parent. As to the wealth which the colonies have drawn from the Their whale sea by their fisheries, you had... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1911 - 318 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Herbert Woodfield Paul - Great Britain - 1911 - 478 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Alfred Maurice Low - National characteristics, American - 1911 - 616 pages
...u, p. 324. we have seen in a former chapter, a surplus for export, and the new country was able to "put the full breast of its youthful exuberance to the mouth of its exhausted parent."1 To a sagacious observer of colonial politics two facts were becoming evident. "The one was... | |
 | Godfrey Tennyson Lampson Locker-Lampson - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1918 - 632 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - United States - 1920 - 118 pages
...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 Eoman charity, had...youthful exuberance to the mouth of its exhausted parent. 30 As to the wealth which the Colonies have drawn from the sea by their fisheries, you had all that... | |
 | Robert Porter St. John, Raymond Lenox Noonan - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1920 - 296 pages
...desolating famine, if this child of your old age, with a true filial piety, with a Roman charity,5 had not put the full breast of its 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - United States - 1920 - 136 pages
...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 exuberance to the mouth of its exhausted parent.81 30. As to the wealth which the Colonies have drawn from the sea by their fisheries, you had... | |
 | James Milton O'Neill - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1921 - 876 pages
...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 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... | |
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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... 
