We are far enough, in this case, from that mendicity which is understood as a means of existence and the essential condition of a life of idleness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of St. Francis of Assisi] Reference

By a satisfactory compromise, it falls into the hands of a mendicity society.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 547, May 19, 1832] Reference

Every country where begging, where mendicity, is a profession, is ill governed.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference

"I arrest you for mendicity," he said, just about to lay his hand on his shoulder.    From Wordnik.com.  [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference

The haggard natives of the mountains ... were mixed with the whole mendicity of Rome.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan] Reference

Moira's death (in 1808) the house was kept up by the family, but in 1826 it was let to an anti-mendicity society.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873] Reference

I let faireviews in on slobodens but ranked rothgardes round wrathmindsers: I bathandbaddend on mendicity and I corocured off the unoculated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finnegans Wake] Reference

This voluntary mendicity, which seemed new, and which had hardly been seen till then, drew down upon them derision, contempt, rebuffs, and angry words.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi] Reference

She was industry personified, and had no sympathy with mendicity.    From Wordnik.com.  [White Lies] Reference

Every genuinely benevolent person loathes almsgiving and mendicity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maxims for Revolutionists] Reference

"Long life to your honors," exclaimed a ragged professor of mendicity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821)] Reference

Such are a few traits of Scottish mendicity, designed to throw light on.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Antiquary] Reference

Such are a few traits of Scottish mendicity, designed to throw light on a.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Antiquary — Complete] Reference

The feeling of shame once subdued, there was no end to his audacious mendicity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life in the Backwoods] Reference

That under the name of mendicity they raised taxes to a greater amount than princes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature] Reference

Manufactures were languishing or suspended; forced mendicity was preying upon the cities.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783] Reference

Open mendicity was a thing he would never tolerate, but chastised it with exemplary rigour.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Conquest of Mexico, with a Preliminary View of Ancient Mexican Civilization, and the Life of the Conqueror, Hernando Cortes] Reference

I was never inclined to mendacity, though I confess to mendicity I have occasionally fallen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Town Traveller] Reference

This naturally necessitated mendicity, and it was not till some centuries had passed that the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modern Saints and Seers] Reference

In 1826 it was converted into a mendicity institution, and all its ornamental portions removed.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800] Reference

As to the cases of mendicity frees insufficient provision,, it was a deplorable eight to see men.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Parliamentary Register: Or an Impartial Report of the Debates that Have Occured in the Two ...] Reference

Catholicism founds hospitals and convents, and commands charity; that is, she encourages mendicity.    From Wordnik.com.  [What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government.] Reference

Either the woman had returned from a German witches 'Sabbath, or she had come out of a mendicity asylum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life] Reference

His occupation is gone, and he does not love the censor who deprives him of the weapons of his mendicity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Style] Reference

If the municipal authorities have set themselves the task of putting down mendicity, they have succeeded.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller"] Reference

I found myself here, once more, in the domains of mendicity, though it is not to be found to any great extent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holidays in Eastern France] Reference

The Pontifical Government encourages mendicity by the protection of its agents, and recommends it by the example of its friars.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Roman Question] Reference

They would be tramping on roads where mendicity laws would prevail, there would be no house-room for them, no squatting-places.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mankind in the Making] Reference

Swiss traveller has been pestered with in places where the children are one short step above mere mendicity, but, equally, which every.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland] Reference

Like most who have arisen to the head of their profession, the modern degradation which mendicity has undergone was often the subject of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Antiquary — Complete] Reference

If this matter were well looked into, together with the other causes from which mendicity proceeds, which increases so rapidly, we should.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Inquiry into the Permanent Causes of the Decline and Fall of Powerful and Wealthy Nations. Designed To Shew How The Prosperity Of The British Empire May Be Prolonged] Reference

He is very shortsighted, however, who thinks that a majority of the people, where universal suffrage exists, will submit long to a state of toil and mendicity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Father Hecker] Reference

Religions mendicity has hitherto been the great safety valve through which the unquiet transition spirit has found vent under our strong and settled government.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official] Reference

A prohibition of mendicity, with the following clause.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04] Reference

Nothing could have a stronger tendency to promote that vagabond mendicity which severe statutes were enacted to repress. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Short History of Monks and Monasteries] Reference

Bahá’u’lláh further states that mendicity should not only be discouraged but entirely wiped out from the face of society.    From Wordnik.com.  [Directives from the Guardian] Reference