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The Assyrian, Egyptian, and Persian, each cast covetous eyes upon the Cyprian shores, and obstinate battles were fought for their possession in the sixth century, B.

He was by no means covetous of money, but grave in his behaviour and a lover of Greece, as appears from his curing those of that nation with[32] the utmost diligence, and freeing many of their cities from the plague, for which he acquired great honours.

To remember his end and the judgment of God; and thus do I commend him to God, if he be not covetous or crafty, seeking his own lucre before other men’s help, succour and comfort.

A Beggarly and Covetous Italian taught it at Chiras for the sum of fifty Crowns.

They were not only opinionative, peevish, covetous, morose, vain, talkative, but incapable of friendship, and dead to all natural affection, which never descended below their grandchildren.

There was a time when it was customary to call Germans "deep" by way of distinction; but now that the most successful type of new Germanism is covetous of quite other honours, and perhaps misses "smartness" in all that has depth, it is almost opportune and patriotic to doubt whether we did not formerly deceive ourselves with that commendation: in short, whether German depth is not at bottom something different and worse-and something from which, thank God, we are on the point of successfully ridding ourselves.

Ill-treating the boys, you covetous, avaricious, in-sa-ti-a-ble old fence?

" He wanted mightily to accumulate money, but he worried constantly about breaking the moral code against covetous behavior.

Covetous of Austin Powers' lack of inhibition, he contrives to go back in time--to 1969, when both he and Powers were cryogenically frozen--and steal the source of the secret agent's appeal: his life force, or "mojo.

What! if the husbandman forfeited his right to the land as soon as he ceased to occupy it, would he become more covetous?

If the Romans had been more moderate in their conquests, more just to their allies, more humane to the vanquished, if the nobles had been less covetous, the emperors less lawless, the people less violent, and all classes less corrupt, if.

Two young and inexperienced princes confront one the other in the two neighbour lands, each distrustful of his rival, each covetous of glory, each hopeful of success if war should break out.

The love of money and the thirst for that distinction which attaches to power, are then so closely intermixed in the same souls, that it becomes difficult to discover whether men grow covetous from ambition, or whether they are ambitious from covetousness.

Let every one, then, quietly follow his nature, as passion, reflection, appetite, the several parts of it, happen to be strongest; but let not the man of virtue take upon him to blame the ambitious, the covetous, the dissolute, since these equally with him obey and follow their nature.

These of His commands they will obey; but as to others--why, they will make all the atonements in their power; the ambitious, the covetous, the dissolute man, each in a way which shall not contradict his respective pursuit.

Thus it appears that private interest is so far from being likely to be promoted in proportion to the degree in which self-love engrosses us, and prevails over all other principles, that _the contracted affection may be so prevalent as to disappoint itself_, _and even contradict its own and private good_. "But who, except the most sordidly covetous, ever thought there was any rivalship between the love of greatness, honour, power, or between sensual appetites and self-love? But as she never was elated with the respect paid to her supposed condition, so she never was mortified with the consciousness of her real one, to a behaviour such as might have degraded the highest birth; neither appearing to expect it, or be covetous of honours, nor meanly ashamed of accepting them when offered.

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