The Customhouse, we must allow, has a very singular machinery for realizing philanthropical aspirations.
Slavery affords a second and striking example of the insufficiency of religious and philanthropical sentiments, when set in opposition to the powerful and energetic sentiment of self-interest.
So that it was not entirely with a philanthropical intention that she stopped Mr Beverley and put an end to his dangerous details.
Those who ascribe philanthropical motives to Gordon must entertain curious ideas as to the love of mankind, when they illustrate it by ravaging Ti-pingdom with fire and sword!
The philanthropical motive will be controverted shortly when we come to a case in which it is attributed to him.
Lay's motive in undertaking the notorious flotilla scheme seems to have been his philanthropical idea (brightened by the receipt of L5,000 a year), of regenerating China.
West, that the consequences of their philanthropical speculation might fall on their own heads.
My brother was quite capable of leaving the whole of his means to a philanthropical institution had I not obeyed his wishes.
Fairly emancipated from selfishness, and pledged to the species, I now quitted England on a tour of philanthropical inspection.
Under the philanthropicalpretext of developing among men a factitious Solidarity, we render Responsibility more and more inert and inefficacious.
The work of private philanthropists and philanthropical bodies among the poor of East London, Southwark and Bermondsey, and elsewhere, fails to be noticed at this point.
Even in purely philanthropical enterprises the driving-wheel that keeps them in motion for any length of time is the salary paid the working members.
I doubt whether the good philanthropical people are even yet quite up to all the advantages of ragged schools.
They have been regarded as the skeletons of philanthropical systems, to which blood and flesh and muscle, and even skin, are wanting.
They are taken in, as it were, to a philanthropical manufacturing college, and then looked after and regulated more as girls and lads at a great seminary, than as hands by whose industry profit is to be made out of capital.
They are got up here and there with some philanthropical object, and in the hope that an hour at the disposal of young men and women may be rescued from idleness.
It is not she who desires it, but her philanthropical philosophical friends who desire it for her.
If we cast our eyes over the proposed institutions which he commended to the notice of the influential and the rich, it is surprising to see in how many directions he anticipated the philanthropical ideas of the age in which we live.
He threw himself heartily into all their philanthropical schemes--the promotion of Sunday-schools, the agitation for the abolition of negro slavery, and the newly reawakened zeal for foreign missions.
But the opportunity was a good one for slashing philanthropical censure; and then the business of the slashing, censorious philanthropist is so easy, so exciting, and so pleasant!
The growth of thesephilanthropical depots for the consolation of exiled Britons is often miraculously mushroom-like.
He takes a conspicuous part in the proceedings of the Young Men's Christian Association of Toronto, and frequently presides at public meetings held for social and philanthropical objects.
On the other hand there was the fact that his labours would be materially lightened, and that he would have more time to bestow upon religious and philanthropical objects in which he has always taken a deep interest.
Mr. Young's loyalty was undoubted, but his patriotism took a practical and philanthropical shape.
The Philanthropical Jay It had been ten long years since I last met Jay Gould until I called upon him yesterday to renew the acquaintance and discuss the happy past.
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