 To be sure peculation and avarice are open to him, and perhaps avarice is as good a sin as he can take up with if he must cultivate any, for a decent share of riches may help his case, a good deal and it is interesting to hoard and make heirs respectful....  In a New Century - Стр. 348авторы: Edward Sandford Martin - 1908 - Страниц: 377Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1903 - Страниц: 954
...that his head will be turned by social success or his energies wasted in a chase after it. He has even a greater incentive to be temperate than most men...to virtue than by trying to be successfully wicked. I HEARD the question brought up, the other day : " Why is it that a description of a painting, couched... | |
 | 1922 - Страниц: 538
...much of a sinner because he is so much exposed to his own society and will have so much inconvenience by having to associate with an unworthy person whom...may be virtuous and still not happy — whatever the copy books declare — but certainly, being deaf, he has a great deal better chance to be happy by... | |
 | 1922 - Страниц: 558
...much of a sinner because he is so much exposed to his own society and will have so much inconvenience by having to associate with an unworthy person whom...may be virtuous and still not happy — whatever the copy books declare — but certainly, being deaf, he has a great deal better chance to be happy by... | |
 | 1926 - Страниц: 838
...be temperate than most men have, for carousals are dull sport to a deaf man. To be sure, speculation and avarice are open to him, and perhaps avarice is...to virtue than by trying to be successfully wicked. And in that sprightly series of travel sketches entitled "Abroad with Jane,"* are some delicious touches... | |
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