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“ But what will not men undertake , " observes he , “ to satisfy the passion of desire ? Yet how backward and indifferent to concerns of a much more important nature ! Leaving Naples once more , we took the road to Vesuvius , and soon ...
“ But what will not men undertake , " observes he , “ to satisfy the passion of desire ? Yet how backward and indifferent to concerns of a much more important nature ! Leaving Naples once more , we took the road to Vesuvius , and soon ...
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Defraud not thyself of the good day ; and let not the part of a good desire overpass thee . ” ( Ecclus . xiv . ) * Theophrastus has furnished three pictures of the covetous man . They are all descriptions of the miser , and only differ ...
Defraud not thyself of the good day ; and let not the part of a good desire overpass thee . ” ( Ecclus . xiv . ) * Theophrastus has furnished three pictures of the covetous man . They are all descriptions of the miser , and only differ ...
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... does not warn them against parsimony , but against the cares of this life and the desire of riches . ... “ a man who always desires more , " - this is the word employed in the text ; t the third means simply “ a lover of money .
... does not warn them against parsimony , but against the cares of this life and the desire of riches . ... “ a man who always desires more , " - this is the word employed in the text ; t the third means simply “ a lover of money .
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The man who desires Christ to compel his brother to divide with him the inheritance is a lover of money , or he would not ... A man who possesses money has , in some sense , enclosed in his coffers all that his eyes can desire , -fields ...
The man who desires Christ to compel his brother to divide with him the inheritance is a lover of money , or he would not ... A man who possesses money has , in some sense , enclosed in his coffers all that his eyes can desire , -fields ...
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It is not the desire of amassing money , nor even that of spending it , which controls him ; but the ... A rich man , whose happiness depends upon his fortune , and who desires continually to increase it , “ less rich in that which he ...
It is not the desire of amassing money , nor even that of spending it , which controls him ; but the ... A rich man , whose happiness depends upon his fortune , and who desires continually to increase it , “ less rich in that which he ...
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