beggary

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All this striking off of Pensions, together with a considerable Reduction of the Army, reduc'd292 a great many People to Beggary.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume III Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

Beggary and virtue were imagined to have something akin.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen by Hubbard, Elbert

Beggary is attended by no disgrace in Italy, and it therefore comes that no mendicant is without a proper degree of the self-respect common to all classes.

From Venetian Life by Howells, William Dean

Beggary exists in a form the most hideous: there is an organization of it with grades, and a sort of hierarchy.

From Outline of Universal History by Fisher, George Park

Beggary were better than such deep disgrace as that.

From The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis