Lives and Anecdotes of Misers Or the Passion of Avarice Displayed in the: Parsimonious Habits Unaccountable Lives and Renaihable Deahts of the Most Notorious Misers of All Ages with a Ferrwords on Frugality and SavingSimpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1850 - 178 страници |
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... propensities of the human mind , I have not forgotten that many will read the book to drive away ennui ; and that youthful readers in winter evenings may expect some amusement from my pages . As I earnestly wish that such may be the ...
... propensities of the human mind , I have not forgotten that many will read the book to drive away ennui ; and that youthful readers in winter evenings may expect some amusement from my pages . As I earnestly wish that such may be the ...
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... propensity can be abused without entailing its own punishment - The effects of avarice— Its appearance in Youth - Manhood - and Old Age - Concluding remarks , & c . Page 174 LIVES & ANECDOTES OF MISERS . CHAPTER I. AVARICE DESCRIBED.
... propensity can be abused without entailing its own punishment - The effects of avarice— Its appearance in Youth - Manhood - and Old Age - Concluding remarks , & c . Page 174 LIVES & ANECDOTES OF MISERS . CHAPTER I. AVARICE DESCRIBED.
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... propensity to acquire , when unduly active , absorbs all other powers and motives of the human mind . The love of accumu- lating gold is so intense that it defies all fear of death , and the being whose will is submissive to its ...
... propensity to acquire , when unduly active , absorbs all other powers and motives of the human mind . The love of accumu- lating gold is so intense that it defies all fear of death , and the being whose will is submissive to its ...
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... propensities , till the bad man thinks his motives good , and looks with com- placency upon his evil deeds . We have a curious anec- dote of the combination of parsimony with charity , to illustrate our meaning , and to show how a ...
... propensities , till the bad man thinks his motives good , and looks with com- placency upon his evil deeds . We have a curious anec- dote of the combination of parsimony with charity , to illustrate our meaning , and to show how a ...
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... propensity to acquire is natural to the human mind , and when it is manifested by a prudent frugality , is one of the greatest moral blessings of life . Religion enjoins , and scripture warrants , the practice of economy , and " Reason ...
... propensity to acquire is natural to the human mind , and when it is manifested by a prudent frugality , is one of the greatest moral blessings of life . Religion enjoins , and scripture warrants , the practice of economy , and " Reason ...
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Страница 31 - Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor ; This year, a reservoir, to keep and spare ; The next, a fountain, spouting through...
Страница 12 - Hoards after hoards his rising raptures fill, Yet still he sighs, for hoards are wanting still : Thus to my breast alternate passions rise, Pleased with each good that Heaven to man supplies ; Yet oft a sigh prevails, and sorrows fall, To see the hoard of human bliss so small ; And oft I wish, amidst the scene, to find Some spot to real happiness...
Страница 135 - Search then the ruling passion: there, alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.
Страница 10 - Eighth, of whom it was said that " he crept into the popedom like a fox, ruled like a lion, and died like a dog," were principally the sins of avarice.
Страница 36 - Our portion is not large, indeed ; But then how little do we need ! For nature's calls are few : In this the art of living lies, To want no more than may suffice, And make that little do.
Страница 46 - The True History of the Life and Sudden Death of old John Overs, the rich Ferryman of London, showing how he lost his life by his own covetousness. And of his daughter Mary, who caused the Church of St Mary Overs in Southwark to be built ; and of the building of London Bridge.
Страница 12 - Content is wealth, the riches of the mind; And happy he who can that treasure find. But the base miser starves amidst his store, Broods on his gold, and, griping still at more. Sits sadly pining, and believes he's poor.
Страница 53 - The Way to be Rich, according to the Practice of the great Audley, who began with £200 in 1605, and dyed worth ,£400,000, November, 1662.
Страница 24 - Having observed from my infancy that the poor of Marseilles are ill supplied with water, which can only be purchased at a great price, I have cheerfully laboured the whole of my life to procure for them this great blessing ; and I direct that the whole of my property shall be laid out in building an aqueduct for their use.
Страница 71 - His thoughts were now how to cheat the oculist ; he pretended that he had only a glimmering, and could see nothing distinctly ; for which reason, the bandage on his eyes was continued a month longer than the usual time. Taylor was deceived by these misrepresentations, and agreed to compound the bargain, and accepted twenty guineas instead of sixty.