The parsimony of England and Holland, and the indifference of Germany, spoiled all the plans of Marlborough, and lost the allies all the benefits of the victory of Blenheim.
Parsimony is enough to make the master of the golden mines as poor as he that has nothing; for a man may be brought to a morsel of bread by parsimony as well as profusion.
With parsimony a little is sufficient, and without it nothing is sufficient, whereas frugality makes a poor man rich.
No man would accuse Emerson of parsimony of ideas.
I should not be surprised at any time to hear that he had endowed a scholarship or professorship or built a college dormitory, in spite of his curious parsimony in old linen.
Gleanings of Natural History," some particulars of the old Baronet, which present a stronger picture of his parsimony than can be found in the pages of his avowed detractors.
The few Elections already over have been conducted (thanks to the Grenvillian Act[259]) with a sobriety, a chastity and a parsimony unexampled in this venal country.
The parsimony of your spouse, who rather chuses to build Gateways than to buy books, has hitherto deprived you of Hume.
I know that all parsimony is of a quality approaching to unkindness, and that (on some person or other) every reform must operate as a sort of punishment.
We must no more make haste to be rich by parsimony than by intemperate acquisition.
Leicester, courageous, self-confident, and sanguine as ever; could not restrain his indignation at the parsimony with which his own impatient spirit had to contend.
Parsimony was her great virtue, and a power of saving her strong point.
Such was the parsimony of parliament, whether the majority was Whig or Royalist, that the most necessary expenses of the royal household could only be defrayed by pensions from France.
The "ignorant impatience of taxation" was as conspicuous in the parsimony of their supplies as it had been in those of Charles's parliament.
He had decided to join forces with a widowed sister, who was accustomed to parsimony as parsimonyis understood in France, and who was living on hoarded potatoes and wine.
The young ladies had long been repining in secret at the parsimony of a prudent father, which kept down all their elegant aspirings.
Moreover, herparsimony had depleted the royal arsenals to such an extent, that in provisioning and arming their fleet the English were at much the same disadvantage as their enemies.
Almost incredible tales are told of the combination of parsimony and extravagance, red-tape and ignorance, which ruined our army.
Call it parsimony or economy, or what you will, in consequence of it Ramon is sure to leave his daughter a handsome fortune, though he will give her nothing during his lifetime.
As for her father, the parsimony that shocked you so much at first, will seem less objectionable when you recollect that, after all, you are the person who will profit by it, eventually.
He has managed his private affairs so as to avoid the two extremes ofparsimony and extravagance.
The petition of the Actores of Spes sets forth that the operation is put in jeopardy by the ill-timed parsimony of Domitius, which throws back the labourers to the point from which they set out at first[258].
But peace and retrenchment were a stern necessity, and in many respects the parsimony has been exaggerated; at any rate, the expenditure was thoroughly well directed.
Under the same queen the poor-law system was elaborated, and Malthus long afterwards showed that its effects in discouraging parsimony rendered it scarcely less pernicious than the monastic system that had preceded it.
Parsimony of his written work was, however, Sheridan's peculiarity.
It is to be presumed that he thought the letters so good that they might very well serve a second turn; but this act of literary parsimony was not happy.
I have nothing else to leave you, thanks to the parsimony of my noble uncle.
She gave me many orders, and paid me a very small price, for she is very practical and prudent, and understands bargaining and cheapening, and when one is poor they are obliged to yield to the shameless parsimony of the rich.
Notorious indeed are the altercations which, on account of the parsimony of the Franceschini home, straightway arose between the parents of the wretched girl on the one hand, and the Accused, his mother, and his brothers on the other hand.
He never complained, and we were left to doubt whether his economy proceeded from parsimony or poverty; but from his highly honourable sentiments I should conclude the latter.
Borrow sent in his copy too slowly to please his exacting and overbearing employer, whose parsimony was only equalled by his greediness.
