Begging is a recognized and a respected profession, and if other trades fail there is always this left.

The cardinal principle of Papal rule is to teach its subjects to rely on charity rather than industry.

In order to relieve in some measure the fearful distress that existed among the poor of Rome in the early spring, the Government took some thousand persons into their employment, and set them to work on excavating the Forum.

The sight of these men working, or, more correctly speaking, idling at work, used to be reckoned one of the stock jokes of the season.

Six men were regularly employed in conveying a wheelbarrow filled with two spadefuls of soil.
There was one man to each handle, two in front to pull when the road rose, and one on each side to give a helping hand and keep the barrow steady.