Other people would have suggested "the Government!" Why should not the Government give us this, that, and the other,--give us roads, harbours, carriages, boats, nets, and so on.

This, of course, would have been a mistaken idea; for where people are too much helped, they invariably lose the beneficent practice of helping themselves.
Charles Bianconi had never been helped, except by advice and friendship.

He had helped himself throughout; and now he would try to help others.
The facts were patent to everybody.

There was not an Irishman who did not know the difficulty of getting from one town to another.

There were roads between them, but no conveyances.