...in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries ; and though, when unhired, they lived at large and wild, with their hand against every man, and every man's hand against them, yet they occasionally rivalled in dignity and importance the standing armies of existing legitimates,...

...in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries ; and though, when unhired, they lived at large and wild, with their hand against every man, and every man's hand against them, yet they occasionally rivalled in dignity and importance the standing armies of existing legitimates,...

...earth as the pathway to heaven. Shall we allow them to wander about the desert-waste like wild Arabs, with their hand against every man, and every man's hand against them, or ever and anon creeping into their clay huts where sleeps for ever the night of moral ignorance ?...

...and we are actually within its boundaries, wherein his predatory descendants still range the desert, with their hand against every man, and every man's hand against them. It is said that this was a part of the first monarchy in the world, and in its pastures the shepherds...

...degraded as themselves. God help them ! Their own vice and the neglect cf society have made them outcasts, with their hand against every man, and every man's hand against them ; though I do believe that yet, even for them, society will have its sympathies, and that, as the claims...

...that under the pressure of physical suffering and want, they formed themselves into a robbertribe, and with their hand against every man, and every man's hand against them, they have since subsisted by their depredations. The former body reminds us of the brigands of Italy,...

...fondly that in Cadwallo they had found a second Arthur. Inhabiting deserts, and caves, and wildernesses, with their hand against every man, and every man's hand against them, Cadwallo had only to blow his trumpet call, and forth poured the Welsh, or Cymri, to uphold his fame...

...those of the bondwoman. And, although the latter are found as they were left — cast out and forsaken, with " their hand against every man, and every man's hand against them" — yet they now have come together again as brethren, the younger holding out the promise to the elder...

...authority over it. The chief ruler is called the Imaum. The wandering or Bedouin Arabs are now, as ever, with " their hand against every man, and every man's hand against them." (Gen. xvi. 12.) Their hospitality is remarkable, and they are unconquered and unconquerable. Turkey,...

...dreaded by good society abroad, is it any wonder to see such children transformed into wild Arabs, with their hand against every man and every man's hand against them, or to find them as described by the poet : — "A ragged offspring, with their upright hair Crown'd...