 ... than themselves, and carry to them a share of their own scanty meal. Mothers who toil all day, and nurse at night sickly and peevish children. Men, who with the racking cough of consumption, and the deadly languor of disease upon them, work on, and...  Grantley Manor : a Tale - Page 10by Georgiana Fullerton - 1847 - 605 pagesFull view - About this book
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...deadly languor of disease upon them, work on, and strive and struggle and toil, till life gives way. Parents whose children cry to them for food when they...Beings tempted on every side, starved into guilt, haited into crime;— who etill resist, who do not kill, who do not steal, who do not take the wages... | |
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...deadly languor of disease upon them, work on, and strive and struggle and toil, till life gives way. Parents whose children cry to them for food when they...tempted on every side, starved into guilt, baited into crime;—who still resist, who do not kill, who do not steal, who do not take the wages of iniquity,... | |
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