In my "Future in America" I have taken the former largely at Miss Tarbell's estimate, and treated him as a case of acquisitiveness raised in Baptist surroundings.
Your day will come, and in due course the graveyard rat will gnaw as calmly at your bump of acquisitiveness as at the mean coat of the pauper.
Their acquisitiveness once divine like Mercury's, is now out of place except in jail.
Acquisitiveness and perceptives large, is sufficiently methodical for all practical business purposes, yet not extra particular: p.
When the head widens rapidly as you pass from the outer angles of the eyes to the top of the ears, Acquisitiveness is large; but when the head is thin in this region, Acquisitiveness is small.
Benevolence would exhaust the purse and be unable to give, if Acquisitiveness did not replenish it; and Avarice unrestrained would lose all financial capacity in the sordid stupidity of the miser.
If Avarice or Acquisitiveness should be considered, they would recognize it as entitled to a place below the horizontal line, and also behind the vertical line, but neither the lowest nor the most posterior.
The organ ofacquisitiveness is also large, but its true development cannot be ascertained in consequence of the size of the temporal muscle, under which it lies.
Was it his organ of acquisitiveness that moved Themistocles to boast that 'he could make a small state great'?
His organ of caution was large, but that of acquisitiveness moderate.
Avarice or Acquisitiveness is the leading manifestation of the selfish faculty.
The bourgeois view is that the production and distribution of the things we need can best be conducted by allowing every man to choose and do his own work under the stimulus of need when poor and of acquisitiveness when rich.
We cannot, when we will, vent our pugnacity on those who have provoked it; we cannot be ruthlessly self-assertive in a group; or gratify our native acquisitiveness by appropriating anything and everything within our reach.
Individuals display at once curiosity and fear, pity and pugnacity, acquisitiveness and sympathy.
The child's curiosity, the acquisitiveness or sex desire or self-assertiveness of the adult must be checked and modified in the interests of the group among which the individual lives.
Curiosity and sympathy are valued and encouraged because they contribute, respectively, to science and to coöperation; pugnacity and acquisitiveness must be kept in check if people are not simply to live, but to live together happily.
The artisans of the South are not industrious because of acquisitiveness but because of the constant needs of others.
The industry of English workmen, on the contrary, has acquisitiveness behind it; it is conscious of itself and its aims; with property it wants power, and with power the greatest possible liberty and individual distinction.
It was at the time when men still imagined that to be a pivotal man in some way enhanced their chances of being demobilised that an abnormal wave of acquisitiveness passed over us.
Appeal to Acquisitiveness will result in a feeling which will rise to inclination and desire for gain.
Acquisitiveness is one of the animating principles of the business world, evade it though we may try to.
Some, whose acquisitiveness overmatched their patriotism, were pretty severely handled during the destruction of the cargoes.
Over against the acquisitiveness of the covetous and envious is set the ideal of inward poverty, with its liberation from the narrow self-interest of I, Me and Mine.
A man may possess large acquisitiveness and benevolence at the same time, like Sir Astley Cooper, and succeed both pecuniarily and professionally.
The true location of acquisitiveness is anterior to combativeness, and lower than adhesiveness.
Man's natural acquisitiveness often leads him into investments which, because of the time and interest factor, have little chance of successful outcome.
In many camps, before the incidence of high taxes, this ratio was not properly determined; and there was a tendency, due to natural acquisitiveness and in the absence of anything to hinder it, to build up reserves indefinitely.
The men who leave seldom have acquisitiveness well developed.
Other things being equal, the man with large Acquisitiveness will exhibit more sense in acquiring property, and the man with large Caution and Secretiveness more sense in economizing, than those having these organs small.
Why, you can see on the face of many an old man and woman a hungry discontent, that has not come from the mere wrinkles of old age or care; an eager acquisitiveness looking out of the dim old eyes, tragical and awful.
He puts acquisitiveness first and right and sterling honesty and unselfishness second.
And shall you expect less acquisitiveness in men who have built themselves up by acquisitiveness?
In the real world, greedy striving and the emulation of acquisitiveness preclude such amity as was present here.
His bump of acquisitiveness was no doubt abnormally developed.
One was of a man well advanced in years, who suffered from misdirected acquisitiveness and frequently found himself in gaol, where he constantly misconducted himself and was punished by long committals to the dark cell.
He was ready for any dangerous and daring deed, inspired rather by a thirst for adventure than by acquisitiveness or the savage instincts of murder and pillage.
It manifests outer form a little distance above the top of the ear, immediately above Destructiveness, and back of Acquisitiveness (see group figure).
When combined with Acquisitiveness it manifests in the tendency to fight for money or property.
Cunning manifests in a foxy, sly walk; while Cautiousness shows in a timid, hesitating step; and Acquisitiveness in a general carefulness and watchfulness as manifested in gait.
With strong Acquisitiveness it renders one sly and tricky in business.
As for Stukeley, the acquisitiveness which had made a Judas of him was destined, by a poetic justice, ever desired but rarely forthcoming for knaves, soon to be his ruin.
You heard honourable, upright men considering measures of defence against oppression, injustice, and evil acquisitiveness masquerading in the holy garments of religion.
