Such a reformation had the fever produced on the economy of his thoughts, that he moralized like an apostle, and projected several prudential schemes for his future conduct.
By these means her transports were quieted for the present, and the marriage deferred for the same prudential reasons which had hitherto prevented it.
But Marie Antoinette could not sacrifice her predilection for a simplicity quite English, to prudential considerations.
From prudential as well as political motives, she was at first easily persuaded to repress her desire.
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Attracted by the gilded bait, it is seized too eagerly to admit of prudential considerations respecting the possibility of concealed mischief, from which, like the fish once caught by the hook, it is too late to be disentangled.
Boaz may be exhibited as a specimen of that prudential charity which should always regulate our distributions.
There is a materialistic evil corresponding to the prudential organization of life which is known as meanness, vulgarity, or sordidness.
Its proper meaning as a purelyprudential formalism is best exhibited in the Greek Cynics.
And asceticism of this prudential type tends always to be both empty and monstrous; empty because it denies life, and monstrous because life is not really denied, but only perverted and awkwardly obstructed.
There is a prudential equilibrium; a condition of smooth and harmonious adjustment, within the personal life or the community.
It is recognized that morally superstition represents the merely prudential level of life.
The prudential organization of life furnishes the first type of formalism.
Honesty, veracity, and tact of the prudential form, 88.
In Hobbes's account, morality is reduced wholly to the prudential economy.
It may be you will, after all, act rather in the prudential Way, according to the Sense of the ordinary World.
In the spirit of prudential consumption such wants are encouraged as give greater and greater abilities.
A more obvious trespass upon prudential consumption is criminal destructiveness of every kind.
The only test of prudentialconsumption in provision for the future market is in the careful study of all conditions, favorable and unfavorable.
But there are certain great enterprises, like wonderful inventions, which involve a prudential consumption of wealth.
Such ownership underlies all prudential consumption of wealth for future returns.
This fact, that the wealth of each generation is so largely dependent upon the prudence of the preceding, emphasizes the importance of public sentiment in favor of prudential consumption.
Prudential consumption does not properly provide for those speculative dealings which end simply in a readjustment of wealth by gains on the one side through losses on the other.
It is uncertain whether among the ancients any prudential preventive check was thought of.
Since the establishment of British free trade, Norwegian timber has become a new source of wealth; and through this and other and earlier commercial developments prudential family habits were affected.
This is one of the reasons why we must not judge one another about these things; why we must not lay down absolute rules about them; why even our recommendations must be provisional and prudential only.
Again, on other grounds, he despises all prudential proceedings, and every thing like orderliness and moderation.
The broad fact remains that for prudential reasons he set forth at the very outset of his system a set of conclusions which could properly be reached only at the end, if at all.
One who is governed by, or acts from, prudential motives.
The way we are in at present is, that she sees my Passion, and sees I at present forbear speaking of it through prudential Regards.
But the most important prudential motive underlying the general restrictions in diet is no doubt fear lest the food should have an injurious effect upon him who partakes of it.
But although prudential considerations of some kind or other be the chief cause of the obligatory character attached to men's conduct towards their gods, they are not the only cause.
But at the same time the restrictions in question are very largely due to prudential motives.
The duties of sincerity and good faith to some extent founded on prudential considerations, pp.
Hence it is generally in the relations to them only that those factors, prudential and reverential, are to be found which lead to the establishment of religious duties.
Nor does a prudential virtue receive the same praise as one springing from a desire to promote the happiness of a fellow-man.
The duties of sincerity and good faith are also to some extent, and in certain cases principally, founded on prudential considerations.
Duties to gods are in the first place based on prudential considerations.
It seems that sometimes the habit of oath-taking has, in another respect also, made it prudential for men to speak the simple truth in all circumstances.
From bothprudential and altruistic motives parents taught their children to abstain from such interference, and this, by itself, would readily give rise to the notion of theft as a moral wrong.
Is it upon prudential conduct, then, that divine approbation and benefit to mankind are supposed to be invariably consequent?
When theprudential committee appointed her, nothing of this was known, Mr. Worthington.
Would he defend the prudential committee, or would he declare for the teacher?
Fifteen applicants were under consideration for the position, and the prudential committee had so far been unable to declare that any of them were completely qualified.
I prefer to believe that the prudential committee of this district has made a mistake, the gravity of which they must now realize, and that they will reinstate Cynthia Wetherell to-morrow.
And as for her fitness to teach, I believe that even the prudential committee could find no fault with that.
Gamaliel," said Miss Lucretia, "I want to see the prudential committee for the village district.
Cynthia could not help thinking that he was a very different man, in Miss Lucretia's presence, than when at the head of the prudential committee.
I was in Brampton yesterday, and saw Mr. Graves, who is on the prudential committee of that district.
H-had her dismissed by theprudential committee had her dismissed--didn't you?
Old Ezra Graves, who's on the prudential committee, told Ephraim they ought to get you.
It is the doctrine of Malthus applied with manifold force to the whole animal and vegetable kingdoms; for in this case there can be no artificial increase of food, and no prudential restraint from marriage.
