Lives and Anecdotes of Misers |
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... exciting curiosity , and have endeavoured , in gathering together examples of avarice , to show the evils of that passion - to show how , before its influence , vanish the better spirits of the heart , and how impossible it is , that ...
... exciting curiosity , and have endeavoured , in gathering together examples of avarice , to show the evils of that passion - to show how , before its influence , vanish the better spirits of the heart , and how impossible it is , that ...
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... excited in old England the cupidity of Norman power . Christian kings and Israel- itish money - lenders were alike greedy after wealth ; and we all know what massacres and plundering arose from this love of gold . It was the avarice of ...
... excited in old England the cupidity of Norman power . Christian kings and Israel- itish money - lenders were alike greedy after wealth ; and we all know what massacres and plundering arose from this love of gold . It was the avarice of ...
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... excited . " If a miser be the owner of fifty acres , " said Dr. Combe , " it will give him delight to acquire fifty more ; if of one thousand , or one hundred thousand , he will still be gratified in adding to this number . His under ...
... excited . " If a miser be the owner of fifty acres , " said Dr. Combe , " it will give him delight to acquire fifty more ; if of one thousand , or one hundred thousand , he will still be gratified in adding to this number . His under ...
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... excited the evil pas- sions of the human mind , there is some trait of humanity still left to emulate the philanthropist to exertion , and to inspire the blackest sinner with the sunshine of hope . What is more anomalous in nature than ...
... excited the evil pas- sions of the human mind , there is some trait of humanity still left to emulate the philanthropist to exertion , and to inspire the blackest sinner with the sunshine of hope . What is more anomalous in nature than ...
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... excited : the possession of a little only fed the desire for more : he neither used nor enjoyed what he had ; still , the promptings of avarice were strong within him , and he again left his country to seek in Antigua and Santa Cruz for ...
... excited : the possession of a little only fed the desire for more : he neither used nor enjoyed what he had ; still , the promptings of avarice were strong within him , and he again left his country to seek in Antigua and Santa Cruz for ...
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accumulate acquisitiveness amassed anxious appearance Audley became become benevolence bestow Blewbury bread charity clothes comfort cunning curious Daniel Dancer death died dirty discovered eccentric excited feeling FEMALE MISERS fortune frugality gold gratify guineas heap heart human mind hundred thousand pounds indulged insanity Jacques Laffitte JEMMY TAYLOR John Elwes Kentish Town Lady Tempest lived love of hoarding lust for gold luxury Madame de Genlis Mammon miserly Mounsey neighbours never known night object observed old miser old woman parsi parsimony passion of avarice penny penury poor possessed pounds per annum propen propensity rags readers refused remarkable replied rich ruling passion says seen shillings singular Sir Harvey Elwes SIR JAMES LOWTHER Sir William Smyth sixpence sordid soul Southwark starved streets sums of money Thomas Guy thought tion took treasure trifling tulip tulip mania usurious Vandille vice Vooght wealth whilst whole worth wretched
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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 133 - 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 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 77 - I give and I devise" (old Euclio said, And sigh'd) "my lands and tenements to Ned." Your money, Sir? "My money, Sir! what, all? Why,— if I must— (then wept) I give it Paul.
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 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 labored 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.
Страница 63 - Some time passed on ; the house in which he had lived was sold, and workmen were busily employed in its repair. In the progress of their work they met with the door of the secret cave, with the key in the lock outside. They threw back the door, and descended with a light. The first object upon which the lamp reflected was the ghastly body of Foscue the miser, and scattered around him were heavy bags of gold, and ponderous chests of untold treasure ; a candlestick lay beside him on the floor. This...