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You shall find usury reigning throughout their traffic; and that they who have no stings of conscience, in relation to unjust dealings, have by indirect ways scraped together the greatest part of their estates. But in things where money has to do, many are so hardened, that, being charged with rapine, they have either no scruple concerning it, or so very light, that it never breaks their sleep.
In order that my readers may better understand and recognize the power of God, who has unrooted these evils, it has seemed to me best to describe them in greater detail. Of usury and slavery among the Filipinos. Among other vicious practices common to these nations and proceeding from that fountain and abyss of evil, idolatry, one was that insatiable cupidity mentioned by the evangelist St.
Madame la Duchesse de Berry returned with usury to her father, the severity and the domination she suffered at the hands of Rion yet this prince, in his weakness, was not less submissive to her, attentive to her, or afraid of her. But it is time now to speak of the public and private occupations of the Regent himself, of his conduct, his pleasure parties, and the employment of his days.
'You are at liberty again, I see, observed Hawkhurst, with a sneer. 'I am not, at all events, indebted to you for it, replied Francisco haughtily; 'nor for my life either. 'No, indeed; but I believe that I am indebted to you for this bullet in my shoulder, replied the mate. 'You are, replied Francisco coolly. 'And depend upon it, the debt shall be repaid with usury.
But if they use power only for their own ends, if there be no unselfish service in it, if its object be only their personal aggrandizement, their love to see other men tools in their hands, they go out of the world small, disquieted, beggared, no enlargement of soul vouchsafed them, no usury of satisfaction. They have added nothing to themselves.
And then, to take the most selfish and hungry-hearted view of this whole matter, what you thus pass on to God as not your own but His, He will soon, and in a better and safer world, return again to the full with usury to you, and you again to God, and He again to you, and so on, all down the pure and true and sweet and blessed life of heaven. Paul.
It was known that the accumulation of men in cities involved unprecedented dangers of pestilence; there was an energetic development of sanitation; but that the diseases of gambling and usury, of luxury and tyranny should become endemic, and produce horrible consequences was beyond the scope of nineteenth-century thought.
He must again have recourse to the money-lenders, his small estate was long since too deeply mortgaged to afford new security. Usury, usury, again! he knew its price, and he sighed but what was to be done? "It is but for a few months, a few months, and Evelyn must be mine. Saxingham has already lent me what he can; but he is embarrassed.
we naturally make a conscience of restoring what has been lent us, without some usury and accession of our own.
Those acquainted with Calvin's "Institutes" will not fail to notice the timid manner in which he treats the subject, as if uncertain of his ground and endeavoring to excuse usury to please his friend. This letter is wanting in that positive air of assured certainty that breathes inspired authority and lends a charm to his "Institutes."
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