 | James Milton O'Neill - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1921 - 874 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... | |
 | Robert Porter St. John, Raymond Lenox Noonan - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1922 - 360 pages
...desolating famine, if this child of your old age, with a true filial piety, with a Roman charity, 12 had not put the full breast of its 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1925 - 552 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... | |
 | Stephen H. Browne - History - 1993 - 172 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." How are we to make sense of this language? One conventional approach is to translate it into literature... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political Science - 2000 - 540 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... | |
 | Stephen Reicher, Nick Hopkins - Psychology - 2001 - 260 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' (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
...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.23 In this example of natural affection pursued to unnatural lengths in the succouring of the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 2008 - 602 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 - History - 2008 - 602 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... | |
 | 254 pages
...been a desolating famine, if this child of 10 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... 
