"If I consent to my daughter's marrying a pauper" "A pauper is one who begs," said poor Stafford, his face white as marble.

Charity which makes paupers?

Nor is it such a dreadful burden to support a peace establishment of four hundred and fifty thousand men as some think,one soldier for every one hundred inhabitants, trained and disciplined to be intelligent and industrious when his short term of three years of active service shall have expired: much easier to bear, I fancy, than the burden of supporting five paupers or more to every hundred inhabitants, as in England and Scotland.

Doubtless he congratulated himself highly on receiving, at the age of twenty-five, an appointment worth £2,000 a year in the paradise of the world; but how short-sighted his satisfaction, since this very appointment left him some ten years later a pauper to begin life anew with an indelible stain on his character.

If he went down to the grave a pauper and a debtor, he had made his own bed, and in it he was to lie.

The other 7,200 included the paupers, that is, all Negroes over and under the self-supporting age, the crippled and sick in hospitals.

He was a bold, harum scarum fellow, as liable to pull the beard of a king, as to kick a pauper.

The days, which before seemed like weeks, were now turned to minutes: scarcely had I swallowed my breakfast before I was in my justice-room; and before I had mittimused half a dozen paupers for beggary, I was called away to luncheon; this barely over, in comes a deputation or a dispatch, and so on till dinner, which was barely ended before supper was announced.

Nemo paupertatem commendaret nisi pauper.

I remembered my father's deatha pauper he was.

Here was no common adventurer seeking placeno coxcomb seeking ladies' favorsno pauper to be bought with gold.

Probably no ill-fated, microcephalous son of Adam ever tumbled into a mistake quite so huge, so infantile, as did Dives, if he imagined himself rich while Lazarus sat pauper at the gate.

Shall we nobles of Venice turn paupers and humbly beg of the clergy a pittance for our children?" He laughed and kissed her hand as he rose.

But you'll never bring a pauper like that inside my house while I am alive.

ADDISON has stated that for some time past it has been the practice riot to use the word "pauper" in official documents when it was possible to use another expression; and no well-conditioned person will cavil at the spirit which has prompted the use of a less invidious substitute.

The plan was ridiculed at the time, some one stating that "The Western Union seems very like collecting all the paupers in the State and arranging them into a union so as to make rich men of them."

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People were waking up to this duty, money was coming in, meetings were being held, and already a few poor fellows were in the refuge, feeling themselves no longer paupers, but invalid soldiers honorably supported by the State they had served.