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Updated: May 11, 2025
To one who admits the truth of this proverb it will be nothing strange that men should have agreed to call him a 'miser' or miserable, who eagerly scrapes together and painfully hoards the mammon of this world. St. The charge is an unjust one. The Romans with their 'integritas' said as much; we too say the same who have adopted 'integrity' as a part of our ethical language.
"Be kind to him, please, when you see him," she whispered. The smaller gift had touched her heart more tenderly. "Kind to the old man!" Robert laughed gently, and tied the two hoards in separate papers, which he stowed into one box, and fixed under string. "This amount, put all in one, doesn't go far, Rhoda." "No," said she: "I hope we may not need it." She broke out: "Dear, good, humble friends!
I'll look about me, and see if I can't find some of his hidden hoards." No sooner did the thought occur to him than he acted upon it. "Let me see," he reflected, "where is he most likely to hide his treasure? Old stockings are the favorites with old maids and widows, but I don't believe Uncle Paul has got any without holes in them. He's more likely to hide his gold under the hearth.
The very morning the letter of license from the government to the Bank of England appeared, thousands and tens of thousands of pounds sterling were taken from the hoards, some from boxes deposited with bankers, although the depositors would not leave the notes in their bankers' hands.
But when lighted it finds its meaning at once; its relation with all things far and near is established, and it freely sacrifices its fund of oil to feed the flame. Such a lamp is our self. So long as it hoards its possessions it keeps itself dark, its conduct contradicts its true purpose.
"'Those skeletons? said I. 'They are part of the collection. The fellow who owns this place hoards all sorts of trash. Come round and have a look at them. "'But skeletons! he whispered. 'Skeletons of men! Ah, I do not like them! "Nevertheless he followed me round the room, peering in nervously at the case of skulls as we passed.
Then quoth King Zau al-Makan to the Minister Dandan, "Inform me concerning my sire's treasures;" and he replied, "I hear and I obey;" and gave him to know of the late King's hoards and monies, and what was in the treasury of amassed wealth and jewels, and acquainted him with other precious things.
We shall be buried alive!" exclaimed Chowles, as he listened with indescribable terror to the noise overhead! "I owe my death to you, wretch!" cried Judith, fiercely. "You persuaded me to come hither." "I!" cried Chowles. "It is a lie! You were the person who proposed it. But for you I should have left our hoards here, and come for them after the fire was over."
"And, Catharine," said the joyful glover, "we will pay largely for soul masses for those who have fallen by Henry's sword; and that will not only cure spiritual flaws, but make us friends with the church again." "For that purpose, father," said Catharine, "the hoards of the wretched Dwining may be applied.
I want money very bad. Give me a peseta." Traveller. "Not I. I am going to see your Emperor." The Rifian. "Ah! ah! ah! that is right; give him plenty of money. Muley Abd Errahman hoards up money always. If you give him plenty of money, you will be placed on a horse and ride by his side." The inhabitants of Barbary all bury their money.
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