About this time an account of each steerage passenger's stock of provisions was taken, and though but three weeks out, several were found nearly exhausted; so improvident had they been.
He becomes as a matter of course improvident and reckless, content with the gratification, so far as may be, of his merely animal appetites; indolent, for why should he be otherwise?
Then their homes--no, their houses, partly because of circumstances beyond their control and partly on account of their improvident natures, are little more than shelters or huts.
Where would have been the military renown of England, if, with an equally improvident waste of mental power, its institutions had forced the Duke of Wellington to employ his life in drilling recruits, instead of planning campaigns?
A quiet place," he said, looking round the little court, "and a happy place for the last days of improvident old men like me.
Fine weather should make grateful hearts, especially in them as is provided for--having been improvident in their youth--with comfortable roofs to shelter them.
Besides, even theimprovident are saved from the worst by the communal organization.
Then there is in France a larger proportion of the working class than in most countries, who are kept in constant poverty and discontent and commotion by their own improvident habits.
In this condition the men were improvident to recklessness.
Unlike the Arab Bedouin, he is too indolent and improvident during seasons of plenty, to convert the produce of his flocks and herds into a store against the coming day of drought and famine.
Again: A piece of land which will only support ten idle, ignorant, and improvident persons, will support thirty or forty intelligent and industrious ones.
Whatever rebuke you would address to the improvident master of an ill-managed patrimony, precisely that rebuke we should address to ourselves, so far as we leave our population in idleness and our country in disorder.
The power of the provident over the improvident depends thus primarily on their relative numbers; secondarily, on the modes of agreement of the adverse parties with each other.
The officers of the Lodging House use their influence to induce the boys, who are the most notoriously improvident creatures in the city, to save their earnings.
It would therefore be extremely dangerous, to give them any power of framing new taxes for the subject: it is sufficient, that they have a power of rejecting, if they think the commons too lavish or improvident in their grants.
Had you no way of turning the revenue to account but through the improvident resource of a spendthrift sale?
The POOR in that case would be rendered as improvident as the rich, which would not be at all good for them.
Ye damn'd Leachers, Ye proudimprovident fools, have we now caught ye?
There go two of the brightest fellows and most improvident scamps in the whole Quartier," said my companion.
It has been improved off the face of the earth, and with it such a gay bizarre, improvident world of youth and folly as shall never again be met together on the banks of the Seine.
In his improvident manner he had apparently squandered the money that had been contributed by Mrs. Brenane for his journey, and thus found himself in considerable difficulties.
Let it be borne in mind that, when we speak of the duty of restraining from improvident marriage, we are not inculcating any new morality founded upon the recent science of political economy.
My father was the improvident one of the Willoughby connection, and he married an equally improvident but awfully pretty girl, my mother.
Jane sighed, but, she reasoned humbly, it was not for her to preach economy to the improvident Larsons.
Bitterly did their captain now repent the improvident security which had led him to neglect a post so important.
Little time was given for repose, as all felt assured that the success of their enterprise hung on the short respite now given them by the improvident enemy.
