He will deliver you from six troubles; in seven no harm shall touch you. In famine he will redeem you from death, and in war from ...the power of the sword. You shall be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, and shall not fear destruction when it comes. At destruction and famine you shall laugh, and shall not fear the wild animals of the earth. For you shall be in league with the stones of the field, and the wild animals shall be at peace with you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All earth was but one thought--and that was death, Immediate and inglorious; and the pang... Of famine fed upon all entrails--men Died, and their bones were tombless as their flesh; The meagre by the meagre were devour'd,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production ...of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I knew the poor, I knew the hideous death they die,... when famine lays its bleak hand on the door; I knew the rich, sated with merriment, who yet are sad.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A lock-jaw that bends a man's head back to his heels, hydrophobia, that makes him bark at his wife and babes, insanity, that makes... him eat grass; war, plague; cholera, famine, indicate a certain ferocity in nature, which, as it had its inlet by human crime, must have its outlet by human suffering.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The nature of Man and his condition in the world, for the first time within the period of certain history, controlled the formatio...n of the State. The necessity of the colonists wrote the law. Their wants, their poverty, their manifest convenience made them bold to ask of the Governor and of the General Court, immunities, and to certain purposes, sovereign powers. The townsmen's words were heard and weighed, for all knew that it was a petitioner that could not be slighted; it was the river, or the winter, or famine, or the Pequots, that spoke through them to the Governor and Council of Massachusetts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards the ...corn for high prices, is the preventative of famine; and the law of self-preservation is surer policy than any legislation can be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Were a stranger to drop on a sudden into this world, I would shew him, as a specimen of its ills, an hospital full of diseases, a ...prison crowded with malefactors and debtors, a field of battle strewed with carcases, a fleet foundering in the ocean, a nation languishing under tyranny, famine, or pestilence. To turn the gay side of life to him and give him a notion of its pleasures; whither should I conduct him? to a ball, to an opera, to court? He might justly think, that I was only shewing him a diversity of distress and sorrow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Battles, revolutions, pestilence, famine, and death, are never the effect of those natural causes, which we experience. Prodigies,... omens, oracles, judgments, quite obscure the few natural events, that are intermingled with them. But as the former grow thinner every page ... we soon learn, that there is nothing mysterious or supernatural in the case, but that all proceeds from the usual propensity of mankind towards the marvellous, and that, though this inclination may at intervals receive a check from sense and learning, it can never be thoroughly extirpated.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »