 | 1850 - 612 pàgines
...epidemics, and other misfortunes incidental to the country. Bound together by the ties of blood, connexion, and above all common interest, like the bundle of...deserted for a time; but, when the storm blows over, they are certain to return. If an accident happen to any individual, he is assisted and befriended... | |
 | W. E. Purser - 1880 - 252 pàgines
...to resist the evil effects " of bad seasons, epidemics and other evils incidental to this country. Bound " together by the ties of blood connection,...the bundle of sticks they are difficult to break. Drought may wither " their Crops, famine and disease may depopulate their houses, their fields " may... | |
 | Sir Charles Umpherston Aitchison - 1892 - 242 pàgines
...' to resist the evil effects of bad seasons, epidemics and other evils incidental to this country. Bound together by the ties of blood connection, and,...bundle of sticks . . . they are difficult to break. Drought may wither their crops, famine and disease may depopulate their houses, their fields may be... | |
 | Sir Charles Umpherston Aitchison - 1892 - 242 pàgines
...' to resist the evil effects of bad seasons, epidemics and other evils incidental to this country. Bound together by the ties of blood connection, and,...bundle of sticks . . . they are difficult to break. Drought may wither their crops, famine and disease may depopulate their houses, their fields may be... | |
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They are admirably adapted,' wrote John Lawrence, when Collector of Delhi, ' to resist the evil effects of bad seasons, epidemics and other evils incidental to this country. Bound together by the ties of blood connection, and, above all, common interest,... 