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He was just urging his hearers, in a loud voice, to abandon the base avarice which gathers pence. There was still time to gain, in exchange for dead florins, living salvation. Let those who repented sin listen, and they would hear the voices of wailing parents, husbands, wives, brothers, sisters, and children, who had preceded them to the other world.
Julian might expect, that a conqueror, who possessed the two forcible instruments of persuasion, steel and gold, would easily procure a plentiful subsistence from the fears or avarice of the natives. But, on the approach of the Romans, the rich and smiling prospect was instantly blasted.
A lonely little spot, shut in by sea and land, and yet life is there in all its passionate variety love and hate, jealousy and avarice, youth, with its ideal sorrows and infinite expectations, age, with its memories and regrets, and "sure and certain hope." The cottages also have their individualities.
Damasus, bishop of Rome, who was constrained to stigmatize the avarice of his clergy by the publication of the law of Valentinian, had the good sense, or the good fortune, to engage in his service the zeal and abilities of the learned Jerom; and the grateful saint has celebrated the merit and purity of a very ambiguous character.
Her ruling passions were suspicion and avarice, written in legible characters in her piercing eyes and sharp-pointed nose. She never supposed us capable of telling the truth, so we very naturally never gave ourselves the trouble to cultivate a useless virtue, and seldom resorted to it unless it answered our purpose better than a lie.
For one is either one thing or the other; if rich, avarice is contemptible; if poor, it is stupid to attempt any display." "My dear Louis, I find you strangely hostile to this poor man and his daughter you who are always so kind and benevolent!" "His daughter! do you call that a daughter?" "What in the devil do you mean! do you take her for a monster?" "I don't take her for a woman."
In justice to our family I may add that we are said to make indulgent husbands and fathers, two characters incompatible with avarice, and sometimes even with prudence when the circumstances are not easy. On a later occasion I made a little tour in Craven with a friend who had a tandem, and we stopped at Hellifield, where I sketched the Peel.
Much more could be said of all the various kinds of neglect, misfortune, and avarice that commit boys to the doubtful influences of the city street, but the main object is to point out the trend of home life in the modern city without denying that there are indeed many adequate homes still to be found, especially in suburban districts.
He reached Lake Van, he marched round Mount Ararat and advanced to Artaxata. But Asia was a scene of dangerous temptation for a Roman commander. Cicero, though he did not name Lucullus, was transparently alluding to him when he told the assembly in the Forum that Rome had made herself abhorred throughout the world by the violence and avarice of her generals.
Johnson says, 'beyond the dreams of avarice' devotes his life and fortune to revenge himself." "And does he?" "He does, upon all his enemies save one." "And he ?" "She was the wife of his greatest enemy, and Dantes spared her because he loved her." Sylvia turned away her head. "It seems interesting enough," said she, coldly.
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