Peace would be attained by a great simplification and impoverishment of the world.

His prime minister is illustrious for wisdom and ability, the celebrated Oxenstiern, through whose labors and genius the country felt no impoverishment from war.

But their impoverishment by the penal laws made it impossible for them to set up an effective system of primary education, and until the national school system came into existence in 1831, they had to rely on the hedge-schools.

How far they are right in anticipating ruin from the manumission of their slaves I think questionable, but that they do so is certain, and self-impoverishment for the sake of abstract principle is not a thing to be reasonably expected from any large mass of men.

The Mongol epoch was thus one of continual and rapid impoverishment in China, simultaneously with a great display of magnificence.

If we lose the Subjunctive Verb, it will certainly be a grievous impoverishment to our literary language, were it only for its value in giving variation to dictionand I make bold to assert that the writer who helps to keep it up deserves public gratitude."John