The French consumers would obtain for a few years the manufactured articles which they needed much cheaper than hitherto, but the French manufactories would be ruined, and millions of men be reduced to beggary or obliged to emigrate, or to devote themselves to agriculture for employment.
Idleness is the key of beggary, the root of all evil.
In those years the landless peasants were brought to beggary.
His speculation reduced him to beggary.
From this it was but a step to beggary.
She looked back to the freedom and the beggary of the old studio in Soho with so much regret.
Idleness is the key of beggary, and the root of all evil.
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