 ... of the soil, who lived penuriously, and had as much as they could do to keep body and soul together. The book of Amos is full of allusions to the sufferings inflicted upon the poor by the hard-hearted aristocracy, by remorseless creditors, by avaricious...  Susan Hopley, Or, The Adventures of a Maid-servant - Page 238by Catherine Crowe - 1842 - 280 pagesFull view - About this book
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1829 - 866 pages
...something together, before they began to tax them ; and not lay a tax on poor People in the woods, who had as much as they could do to keep body and soul together. The exemption from taxation for five years, seemed to him to have been of great benefit to the State... | |
 | 1850 - 198 pages
...time of which we write, (the melancholy winter of 1846,) it was, as her poor neighbours declared, " as much as they could do to keep body and soul together;" and many a stout miner went to his daily toil in the raw foggy morning without breaking his fast, unwilling... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - Law - 1858 - 802 pages
...something together, before they began to tax them ; and not lay a tax on poor people in the woods, who had as much as they could do to keep body and soul together. The exemption from taxation for five years, seemed to him to have been of great benefit to the State... | |
 | Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors - Agriculture - 1881 - 532 pages
...reduce their expenditure with a view of acquiring the capital to enable them to improve their position. It was as much as they could do to keep body and soul together. There was only one way, or rather two ways, so far as he could discern, of abating competition in Ireland... | |
 | Institution of Surveyors (Great Britain). - Surveying - 514 pages
...reduce their expenditure with a view of acquiring the capital to enable them to improve their position. It was as much as they could do to keep body and s«ul together. There was only one way, or rather two ways, so far as he could discern, of abating... | |
 | Samuel Rolles Driver - Bible - 1897 - 268 pages
...oppression, from the hard-worked fellahin, the poor cultivators of the soil, who lived penuriously, and had as much as they could do to keep body and soul together. The book of Amos is full of allusions to the sufferings inflicted upon the poor by the hard-hearted... | |
 | Bible - 1898 - 274 pages
...from the hard-worked fellahin, the poor cultiva-^, tors of the soil, who lived penuriously, and had as much as they could do to keep body and soul together. The book, of Amos is full of allusions to the sufferings inflicted upon the poor by the . hard-hearted... | |
 | Claude Goldsmid Montefiore - Bible - 1900 - 840 pages
...oppression, from the hard-worked fellalrin, the poor cultivators of the soil, who lived penuriously, and had as much as they could do to keep body and soul together. The Book of Amos is full of allusions to the sufferings inflicted upon the poor by the hardhearted... | |
 | Herbert Morse - Dramatists, English - 1915 - 320 pages
...all along the line and in every direction ; they might be knocked on the head at any moment, and had as much as they could do to keep body and soul together from day to day. And this spirit of concentrated vitality and activity is reflected in Shakespeare.... | |
 | Herbert Morse - Dramatists, English - 1915 - 320 pages
...all along the line and in every direction ; they might be knocked on the head at any moment, and had as much as they could do to keep body and soul together from day to day. And this spirit of concentrated vitality and activity is reflected in Shakespeare.... | |
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