While the North looked upon the South as a set of aristocratic blusterers, their affluence and wealth having made them effeminate; a nation of weaklings, who could not stand the fatigues and hardships of a campaign.
Coping with the right to affluence Pragmatic frameworks are not chosen, like food from a menu or toppings from a list.
Affluence appears as a given that takes over the need to match efficiency expectations characteristic of the global scale of humankind.
In the competitive context of the new pragmatics that renders literacy useless, the sense of a right to affluence developed.
In this vein, the right to affluence implicit in the civilization of illiteracy extends well into the domain of the aesthetic.
After previous economies of scarcity and limited means of production, human experience at the global scale has brought about a wealth of choices and means of affluence that question the very premise of the family contract.
The change from self-reliance to affluence corresponds, first and foremost, to the change of the pragmatic context within which the human condition is defined.
Preston was charged by Lukens to learn more particulars about this Mine road, and obtained some from Nicholas Depuis, son of Samuel, who was living in great affluence in a spacious stone house.
The contrast between affluence and misery may display itself too offensively!
As the Jew grew deeper in his figures, Dalton rambled on about Ireland and her prospects, for he wished it to be supposed that his present affluence was the long-expected remittance from his estates.
Real affluence appeared on the horizon just then, in the form of a liberal offer for the Tennessee land.
Bob Howland declared later that they used to go out at night and gather up empty champagne-bottles and fruit-tins and pile them in the rear of their cabin to convey to others the appearance of affluence and high living.
Mark received her reproaches with an affluence of guilt, but never did lady enjoy a visit more than that to Avonbank.
The pleasures which attend on affluence are too great, and too pleasing to youth, to be overlooked, except when under the influence of a livelier passion.
I have seen more of the world than most men of my age, and I have seen the advantages of affluence in their strongest light.
I might add, who has sacrificed ease and affluence to her tenderness for him?
Think how sweet life is to those who have passed their days so long in affluence and honor.
Go back to the days of your youth; take a close view of the use you made of affluence and influence; not comparing yourself with others, but judging yourself by the law of God, the only standard of right and wrong, truth and error.
None whomaffluence permits, endowments qualify, and piety prompts, to aim at her distinction by treading in her steps?
Amidst the wealth of a foreign land, beautiful but poor girls have before them only one road to the acquisition of affluence and even polish, and that was the road of shame.
But the date of its start as a town is not more than six months ago; since when it has been advancing with unsurpassed thrift, on a scale of affluence and durability.
It is true that a poor lawyer aided by some good qualities will sometimes rise to affluence and eminence, though such cases are exceptions.
The idea of having the cup of bliss dashed from my very lips,--of such beauty and affluence being snatched from me, for want of a second pair of paltry posters, drives me frantic!
It is a good which neither depends on the will of others, nor on the affluence of external fortune.
It is a good which depends neither on the will of others, nor on the affluence of external fortune.
This is a most worthy institution, designed for ladies who have been reduced from affluence to poverty, affording them a home where they can mingle with a class of people congenial to their refined natures.
Her father had no objection to her choosing between two persons of equal claims to affluence and reputation; this choice she had made, and her father was considered the most proper person to pronounce it.
Hurled in a moment from the lofty summit of affluence to the low and barren vale of poverty!
In the course of four-and-twenty hours, I found myself raised, by the munificent gratitude of the inhabitants of this city, to a state of affluence far beyond what I had ever dreamed of attaining.
I drew upon him only for such small sums as were absolutely necessary; as I was resolved to live with the utmost economy, that I might the sooner be enabled to return in affluence to my native country.
Peter Dieman, since he had reached his present state of affluence and influence, did not condescend to wait on customers.
Affluence and dignity, however valuable, may be purchased too dear.
The poetical commonwealth of England is so rich, that it is impossible to bring a tenth part of its affluence within the scope of any ordinary work.
