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Updated: June 21, 2025
Ill-fed, ill-clothed, ill-cherished, all that might be refined and elevated in her nature, if properly cultivated, is choked into starveling shapes by her enemy Want. "If you have any knowledge of nature, ask yourself if such a condition of birth and infancy is likely to produce a noble, healthy human being?
Upon the stone pavement far below them a number of children of every age and size, but all ill-clothed and ill-fed, were crawling about, in and out of the houses, and their cries and shrieks came up to them in their lofty seat; but of late their mother had not let them run out to play in the streets, and they were mostly strangers to them except by sight.
The driver, turning on her approach, stood back, touching his cap; amazed by this condescension of jewels and silk to beauty ill-clothed, draggled, dirty and exhausted. Suddenly Lady Elizabeth remembered that she did not know even the girl's name. "Open the door, please," she said to the driver.
But there are millions of poor people, abject people, dirty people, ill-fed, ill-clothed people.
In exchange, the writers of the present time, without being better than those of former times, neither as men nor as historians, without being more gallant than Hernan Cortez and Salcedo, nor more prudent than Legazpi, nor more manly than Morga, nor more studious than Colin and Gaspar de San Agustin, our contemporary writers, we say, find that the native is a creature something more than a monkey but much less than a man, an anthropoid, dull-witted, stupid, timid, dirty, cringing, grinning, ill-clothed, indolent, lazy, brainless, immoral, etc., etc.
We have learned that pestilences will only take up their abode among those who have prepared unswept and ungarnished residences for them. Their cities must have narrow, unwatered streets, foul with accumulated garbage. Their houses must be ill-drained, ill-lighted, ill-ventilated. Their subjects must be ill-washed, ill-fed, ill-clothed. The London of 1665 was such a city.
In order to get the greatest heat from the wood it was broken up into pieces not much larger than matches. And yet packed into that noisome hovel, ill-fed and ill-clothed, with the Arctic wind roaring outside, the temperature within barely above freezing, and a wretched death staring each man in the face, these men were not without cheerfulness.
Cordially were they greeted. At first it was difficult for them to recognize the staid little gentleman in his full suit of broadcloth as the lively but generally ill-clothed Kinnesasis. The visitors who quickly saw and were delighted with the transformation greeted him as though he were some distinguished stranger. This vastly amused the children.
He was minded to tell her because indeed she had made his fortunes for him that her marriage to him did not hold good since a friar had read the rites. 'I chose thee for thy resounding speeches, she said, 'and because art so ill-clothed i' the ribs.
The first was that long family of nineteen mouths, with the father and mother making twenty-one. What a number of sins, in the rude logic of the struggle for existence, that terrible fact glossed over! Who could blame what labourer at least could blame the ragged, ill-clothed children for taking the dead wood from the hedges to warm their naked limbs?
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