What benefit is there in amassing a large store of knowledge, which may never be required, and at the same time neglecting the enjoyment of female society, and despising its aid as the minister of virtue.
The officers of the army had risen in revolt against Massena, who had made no attempt to pay them or their troops, but had spent his time in amassing a fortune for himself.
His task was a difficult one, for at Rome and Mantua the starving troops had mutinied, while the contractors and agents of the Directors were amassing huge fortunes.
The troops were in rags and badly fed, their pay was months in arrear, and meanwhile the civil servants of the Directory were amassing fortunes at the expense of the Pope, the Cardinals, and the Princes of Rome.
Laws as to land and contracts may be modified, but the true cure for all such injuries and inequalities is to cease to regard the amassing of "fortunes" as the most desirable end in life.
Why not found a new colony there where men might dwell in peace and comfort, with the aim not ofamassing wealth, but of living sober and useful lives?
Such are the rewards of labour in a country possessing every conceivable means of amassing wealth, and they become less from year to year.
He has lived alone all these fifty years, alone and for himself, amassing learning, and compiling a fortune.
In carrying out these schemes the Jesuits abandoned the ascetical principles of their founder and their vow of poverty, amassing enormous wealth by securing in many parts a practical monopoly of trade.
An excessive thirst for amassing wealth, and an inordinate love of gain, generally gave occasion in Carthage to the committing base and unjust actions.
No less enthusiastic in amassing pictures and objects of art than books, he never scrupled to sell anything and everything except his books, which he dearly loved.
Another book-collector of a very different type was amassing an extensive library at a somewhat later period than Cranmer: Dr.
Men may keep busy in a variety of ways, making money, acquiring facility in laboratory manipulation, or in amassing a store of facts about linguistic matters, or the chronology of literary productions.
Mere amassingof information apart from the direct interests of life makes mind wooden; elasticity disappears.
But how often you have told me that all these business trips, and all these frequent absences that grieve me so much, have been made solely for the purpose of amassing a handsome dowry for me.
He had, indeed, hoped to provide a snug competence for his children; but for plans of amassing wealth he had supreme contempt.
That mass of fog, which the sun itself will not wholly disperse, serves as a veil to treasures which have been amassing perhaps from the beginning of the world.
Chance at that time made me acquainted with Don Augustin, then occupied in amassing the vast wealth which to-day he so freely spends.
Fifty years of the life of the wealthy and enthusiastic collector, besides a very large sum of money, were spent in amassing this collection.
To dream of fighting flames, foretells that you will have to put forth your best efforts and energy if you are successful in amassing wealth.
To see mushrooms in your dreams, denotes unhealthy desires, and unwise haste in amassing wealth, as it may vanish in law suits and vain pleasures.
He will be almost ready to give up the effort of amassing a handsome fortune and a brilliant business record as useless, but some unforeseen good fortune will bear him up again.
Though he had great opportunities of amassing money, he was careless of wealth, and died in indigent circumstances.
In building up a huge business or in amassing enormous riches, such men as Rothschild, Rockefeller, and Carnegie show us especially how vitally important to all material success is steadfast attendance at the school of attention.
After amassing a large fortune, he married a young girl of good birth, whose name he assumed.
In this novel Aristide Saccard, who followed his brother Eugene to Paris in the hope of sharing the spoils of the Second Empire (La Fortune des Rougon), was successful in amassing a vast fortune by speculation in building-sites.
But this the captain could not understand, because he had been amassingwealth for his ward, not for himself, and therefore knew not the dangers of the pursuit.
The United States, already possessed of fabulous wealth and daily amassing more, was heading straight for a social and economic revolution, because a part of the inhabitants claimed to be the slaves of industrialism and of poverty.
He aimed directly at stopping abuses which gave a privileged few undue advantage in amassing and distributing wealth.
The inundation of wealth which had poured in, compared with all previous amassing of riches, was as the Mississippi to the slender stream of Pactolus.
He was happy, poor man, for nearly two years, in the belief that he was amassing a fortune.
After amassing a fortune, he sailed for America and deposited a large amount of his wealth with a confederate on Long Island.
Kind words may go a long way, a little assistance in the amassingof data will prove invaluable, and helping to make a market for the literature will act as a stimulus.
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