Orestilla is a great Fortune, and in wonderful Danger of Surprizes, therefore full of Suspicions of the least indifferent thing, particularly careful of new Acquaintance, and of growing too familiar with the old.
He enjoys a great Fortune handsomely, without launching into Expence; and exerts many noble and useful Qualities, without appearing in any publick Employment.
The virtuous Principles you had from that excellent Man whom you have lost, have wrought in you as they ought, to make a Youth of Three and Twenty incapable of Comfort upon coming into Possession of a great Fortune.
Magna servitus est magna fortuna=--A great fortune is a great slavery.
It requires a great deal of boldness and a= 10 =great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have got it, it requires ten times as much wit to keep it.
Fortuna magna magna domino est servitus=--A great fortune is a great slavery to its owner.
She had been married young by her relations to an old Turkey merchant, who, having got a great fortune, had left off trade.
Miss Edwards, an unmarried lady of great fortune, who openly kept Lord Anne Hamilton.
But you know a great fortune covers a multitude of imperfections in the eyes of most people, and I hope her love for my brother will make her a good wife.
Dolfin was not endowed with any of those eminent qualities, and therefore he had no hope of a great fortune in his native country.
She must have made a great fortune here, and have I not a right to take it from her, were it only for vengeance sake?
Old Rinaldi, who proved himself no prophet, told me that I should make a great fortunein England, and his daughter sighed to be in Marcoline's place.
The test of his honesty will be the manner in which he is acted upon by Charlotte's position as claimant of a great fortune.
It pleased me to think of this; but I derived no pleasure from the idea that Charlotte might possibly be the claimant of a great fortune.
Suppose you found yourself suddenly possessed of a great fortune, Charlotte; what would you do with it?
My uncle has made a great fortune there; he offers to aid me if I will come, and I shall accept his offer at once.
Her brother was engaged to be married to Miss Bramlett when the murder was committed; but they say he has run away to California and left his affianced bride here to be hung, while he goes to get his uncle's great fortune.
The little scheme that I have so often mentioned to you is a feasible one, which will insure us a great fortune, and richly reward us for any risk; though there can be no risk, if we exercise caution.
Memphis will swarm with unscrupulous fortune-hunters as soon as Viola arrives, and it becomes known that she is an heiress to a great fortune.
My great fortunenow is poverty, because it is all you will take.
He was a very busy man, in the thick of the struggle for a great fortune.
But there is a fascination in building up a great fortune.
To improve land with profit, like all other commercial projects, requires an exact attention to small savings and small gains, of which a man born to a great fortune, even though naturally frugal, is very seldom capable.
But the person who either acquires, or succeeds to a great fortune, does not necessarily acquire or succeed to any political power, either civil or military.
Lamartine said softly, "If he can keep it up for twenty-four hours longer, he who has been a beggar practically for ten years will be worth a great fortune!
He carries with him," Louis said slowly, "a secret which will produce a great fortune.
He found himself, in the midst of a dissolute society, at the head of a great fortune.
What could a great peer, with a great castle and park, and a great fortune, do but be splendid and idle?
I have an idea that there is a great fortune lying at your feet, if you would only stoop to pick it up.
Not a great fortune, forty and odd pounds for the inheritor of a hundred and odd thousand!
We have come into a great fortune, and we must do what's right by our fortune; we must act up to it.
Not that Austin Clay cared so very much for a 'great fortune' in itself; but he certainly did hope to achieve a competency, and to this end he made the best use of the talents bestowed upon him.
To a young man whose salary is only two hundred a year, the unexpected accession to two thousand pounds, hard cash, seems like a great fortune.
I can tell you that less than two thousand pounds has laid the foundation of many a great fortune.
Not to the 'great fortune' talked of by Mr. Knapley, who avowed freely his respect for millionaires: he did not care for that.
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