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If you are not smart enough to drive a close bargain, they consider it only fair to take you in. A man loses very little in the public estimation by making over all his property to some convenient friend, in order to defraud his creditors, while he retains a competency for himself.
GROTE says of the seven sages: "Their appearance forms an epoch in Grecian history, inasmuch as they are the first persons who ever acquired an Hellenic reputation grounded on mental competency apart from poetical genius or effect a proof that political and social prudence was beginning to be appreciated and admired on its own account."
The senate would have enriched him, but he declined their proffers, choosing to retire once more to his farm and his cottage, content with competency and fame. But this repose from foreign invasion did not lessen the tumults of the city within.
His hair and eyebrows left one doubtful whether to pronounce them black or brown, but the eyes called for an immediate verdict of Irish blue. Every inch of him spoke of competency promised mastership of any situation likely to arise. But when the last word is said it was the eyes that dominated the personality.
Will the cracked Teacup hold together, or will he go to pieces, and find himself in that retreat where the owner of the terrible clock which drove him crazy is walking under the shelter of the high walls? Has the young Doctor's crown yet received the seal which is Nature's warrant of wisdom and proof of professional competency?
There was reproach in her voice, I'm not sure there wasn't disappointment. "No," said he, "it was the exact and literal truth. But I have come into a modest competency over-night." "I don't understand," said she. "My own part in the story is a sufficiently inglorious one," said he. "I'm the benefactee. Lady Blanchemain and my uncle have put their heads together, and endowed me.
If mere parsimony could have made a man rich, Sir Pitt Crawley might have become very wealthy if he had been an attorney in a country town, with no capital but his brains, it is very possible that he would have turned them to good account, and might have achieved for himself a very considerable influence and competency.
He had spoken more for the honour of God and for the power of godliness, if he had said this in the behalf of the ministry: It were better for us to want competency and helps to learning, than to partake with other men’s sins, by admitting the scandalous and profane to the Lord’s table.
There are the costly charges of university education the costly chambers in the Inn of Court the clerk and his maintenance the inevitable travels on circuit certain expenses all to be defrayed before the possible client makes his appearance, and the chance of fame or competency arrives. The prizes are great, to be sure, in the law, but what a prodigious sum the lottery-ticket costs!
It was the king of Sodom’s speech to Abraham, ‘Give me the persons; take thou the goods:’ so say I, Give us doctrine; take you the government. As is said, Right Honourable, give me leave to make this request in the behalf of the ministry, Give us two things, and we shall do well—learning and a competency. A Christian magistrate, as a Christian magistrate, is a governor in the church.
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