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According to the "Annual Report of the Managers of the Society for the Prevention of Pauperism in New York City," there were 12,000 paupers in New York City in 1820. Many of these were destitute Irish who, after having been plundered and dispossessed by the absentee landlords and the capitalists of their own country, were induced to pay their last farthing to the shippers for passage to America.
He insisted, therefore, that this war should cease that the Moors of Granada should be reinstated in the territory of which they had been dispossessed: otherwise he threatened to put to death all the Christians beneath his sway, to demolish their convents and temples, and to destroy the Holy Sepulchre.
"Shall a man need an invitation to his own house, my son?" he said at last. The arrogant lips of the young man tightened; he tossed up his head. "The house is mine. I am the master here. You are an outlaw." "An outlaw no longer," answered the old man, "for the Protector has granted me again the home of which I was cruelly dispossessed."
After the death of Serour, Abd el Mayn, one of his brothers, succeeded for four or five days, when his younger brother Ghaleb, by his superior skill in intrigue, and by the great popularity which his valour, understanding, and engaging address had acquired for him in the time of Serour, dispossessed Abd el Mayn, and suffered him quietly to retire.
Samuels peered at him strangely, around the guttering candle. Bob allowed him no time to express his thought. "But to get back to your own case," said he. "What gets me is why you destroy your homestead right for a practical certainty." "What do you mean by that?" "Why, I personally think it's a certainty that you will be dispossessed here.
The reformed clergy who had dispossessed and confiscated the property of the ancient ecclesiastics who once held a constitutional place in the Estates of Utrecht although many of those individuals were now married and had embraced the reformed religion who had demolished, and sold at public auction, for 12,300 florins, the time-honoured cathedral where the earliest Christians of the Netherlands had worshipped, and St.
During fifteen years this public-spirited owner of the property paid all the taxes, and when the block was finally sold he made possible the playground equipment of a near-by schoolyard. On the other hand, the dispossessed tenants, a group of whom had to be evicted by legal process before their houses could be torn down, have never ceased to mourn their former estates.
In a few minutes he heard a cart rumble out of the rugged court-yard, and made no doubt that he was now dispossessed, for a space at least, if not for ever, of the only documents which seemed to promise some light upon the dubious events which had of late influenced his destiny. With such melancholy thoughts he had to beguile about four or five hours of solitude.
"I came prepared to share my brother's fate." "And you shall share it. It must be the hand of fate which has placed you both in my power, me, the representative of the rightful lord of Aescendune, dispossessed by your father, and being myself the legitimate heir." "We do not dispute your title; give my brother his life and liberty, and take all; we have never injured you."
Her eyes burned as she looked at him. She had been eternally dispossessed of what every woman has the right to have one memory possessing the elements of beauty. Even if it remain but for the moment, yet that moment is hers by right of her sex, which is denied the wider rights of those they love and serve. She had tasted the cup of bitterness and drunk of the waters of sacrifice.
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