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Their laughable conceit, which displays itself in a thousand unexpected forms, might be passed over, as also the grasping avarice which is conspicuous in most of their dealings, for vanity may rise into ambition, and niggardliness be refined into praiseworthy economy, were their other vices not so numerous and so grave.
-Saint Thomas, Stephen smiling said, whose gorbellied works I enjoy reading in the original, writing of incest from a standpoint different from that of the new Viennese school Mr Magee spoke of, likens it in his wise and curious way to an avarice of the emotions.
Because at the critical turningpoint of human existence he desired to amend many social conditions, the product of inequality and avarice and international animosity.
Otherwise, as avarice is the necessary consequence of old age, those immortals would in time become proprietors of the whole nation, and engross the civil power, which, for want of abilities to manage, must end in the ruin of the public.
” My master said, “he could never discover the reason of this unnatural appetite, or how these stones could be of any use to a Yahoo; but now he believed it might proceed from the same principle of avarice which I had ascribed to mankind.
Could he, for an instant, have supposed that, in my admonisher at Eton-in the destroyer of my honor at Oxford,-in him who thwarted my ambition at Rome, my revenge at Paris, my passionate love at Naples, or what he falsely termed my avarice in Egypt,-that in this, my arch-enemy and evil genius, could fail to recognise the William Wilson of my school boy days,-the namesake, the companion, the rival,-the hated and dreaded rival at Dr.
The ambition of the conductor is abetted by the avarice of the agent, who receives a commission of up to 20 percent on the fees and salaries he negotiates.
The Nation , July 19 The cover story assails the avarice of drug companies for developing lucrative lifestyle drugs to treat impotence, baldness, wrinkles, and toenail fungus, while ignoring unprofitable deadly diseases.
Thou knowest whether I seek my welfare or Thy glory, O God of liberty! Ah! perish my memory, and let humanity be free! Let me see from my obscurity the people at last instructed, let noble teachers enlighten them, let generous spirits guide them! Abridge, if possible, the time of our trial, stifle pride and avarice in equality, annihilate this love of glory which enslaves us, teach these poor children that in the bosom of liberty there are neither heroes nor great men! Inspire the powerful man, the rich man, him whose name my lips shall never pronounce in Thy presence, with a horror of his crimes, let him be the first to apply for admission to the redeemed society, let the promptness of his repentance be the ground of his forgiveness! Then, great and small, wise and foolish, rich and poor, will unite in an Oh, unhappy the writer who publishes the truth otherwise than as a performance of a duty! If he has counted upon the applause of the crowd, if he has supposed that avarice and self-interest would forget themselves in admiration of him, if he has neglected to encase himself within three thicknesses of brass,-he will fail, as he ought, in his selfish undertaking.
This demand, the patricians in their avarice never would accede to.
To satisfy the avarice of literary people, it would be necessary to create literary majorats, and make a whole code of exceptions.
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