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... took the penny , though ! " We could point to many such instances of aristocratic penury , but we do not wish to draw our illustrations from contemporary characters . 66 The total absence of all ulterior motive in the parsi- mony of the ...
... took the penny , though ! " We could point to many such instances of aristocratic penury , but we do not wish to draw our illustrations from contemporary characters . 66 The total absence of all ulterior motive in the parsi- mony of the ...
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... took immediate pos- session of his room , expressing himself much pleased with the accommodation . A short time after he had retired to rest , he was taken ill . The symptoms assumed a serious aspect , and two medical men were sent for ...
... took immediate pos- session of his room , expressing himself much pleased with the accommodation . A short time after he had retired to rest , he was taken ill . The symptoms assumed a serious aspect , and two medical men were sent for ...
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... took the opportunity , whilst the miser was busy picking up his penny fares , to get admitted to her company . The first interview pleased well ; another was granted and arranged , which pleased still better ; and a third ended in a ...
... took the opportunity , whilst the miser was busy picking up his penny fares , to get admitted to her company . The first interview pleased well ; another was granted and arranged , which pleased still better ; and a third ended in a ...
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... took the money , and buried him within the cloister . The abbot on his return seeing a new grave , inquired who , in his absence , had been buried there ; and on being informed , he ordered it to be immediately disinterred , and be laid ...
... took the money , and buried him within the cloister . The abbot on his return seeing a new grave , inquired who , in his absence , had been buried there ; and on being informed , he ordered it to be immediately disinterred , and be laid ...
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... took care , " says his biographer , " to accompany himself , to his dying day , with some grave and reverend divine , from whom , if he gained not piety , he gained the repu- tation of it . He would have , in his chamber , upon the ...
... took care , " says his biographer , " to accompany himself , to his dying day , with some grave and reverend divine , from whom , if he gained not piety , he gained the repu- tation of it . He would have , in his chamber , upon the ...
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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...