their fallen companions, should we have felt our thoughts unavoidably
wandering from the higher business and moral effect of the scene, to the
mere physical and repelling images of fleshly mortality.--_Edinburgh
Rev._

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The inquiries of the committee appointed to devise means for the
suppression of mendicity, leave us no reason to doubt that in an average
of cases a London beggar made by "his trade" eighteen-pence per day, or
twenty-seven pounds per annum!

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_One-ninth_ of the whole population of Paris are wholly maintained by
funds which the different bureaux of charity distribute for their
relief; and still a countless horde of mendicants infest her streets,
her quays, and all her public places.

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Science and literature are "the nourishment of youth, the delight of
age, the ornaments of prosperous life, the refuge and consolation of
adversity, the companions of our weary travels, of our rural solitudes,
of our sleepless nights."

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The following quotation from _Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary_ points out
the frugal and temperate Scot; and, in illustration, may be contrasted