poverty

• If poverty is so great an evil as to expose a man to commit actions, at which he afterwards blushes, to avoid this poverty should be the continual care of every man; and he, who lets slip every opportunity of doing so, is more entitled to admiration than pity, should he bear his sufferings nobly. —  The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753), Vol. V.
• At the event, attended by Lagos State Deputy Governor, Mrs Sarah Sosan, Okoya-Thomas also presented several tricycles, also known as Keke NAPEP and urged the people to access the micro-credit scheme, so that their poverty could be alleviated.
• It argues, from a Marxist viewpoint, that such exploitation is the root cause of Latin American poverty. —  Latest Articles
• Whether poverty is a good.+ The history of the mendicant orders is an almost incomprehensible story of wrongheadedness. —  Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
• It has no beauty whatsoever, no specialty of picturesqueness; and all its lines are cramped and poor The crampness and the poverty are all intended. —  Lectures on Landscape Delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871

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