Wynn's declaration of "her folly and rapacity," affirming that this folly and rapacity have left their clear traces on the conduct of affairs, and in the increase of the national burdens.
The letters in Coxe's Memoirs of Walpole, abundantly show the German nationality, the impolicy and neglect of his duties, the rapacity and petty selfishness of George I.
When some new act of rapacity was resisted there came war; but a war of Bengalees against Englishmen was like a war of sheep against wolves, of men against demons.
The curious reader will peruse with astonishment and scan with regret the long list of precious offerings which the exactions of kings, the exigencies of warfare and the rapacity of the revolutionists have caused in great part to disappear.
Merchants found here a ready market, and one in which they were protected from the rapacity and exactions of the feudal lords.
The second growth of stunted timber, showing everywhere the scars of the wasting rapacity of man, stood stark and wilted to the roots.
The Bordelese, who, not without reason, charge the prohibitive system with the decline of their prosperity, cannot be blind to the fact, that their own unscrupulous rapacity contributed pretty largely to this result.
Besides this, some of the Judaean nobles had hurried forth to meet the victor Antony in Bithynia, carrying to him their complaints of the rapacity of the Idumaean brothers.
For this low rapacity in Richard, Shakespeare has substituted the hunchback's personal exultation on finding himself a successful wooer.
The rapacity of public officers, and the corrupt character of ministers of justice, weighed heavily upon the property and spirits of the people.
But Betsy's instinct had told her that therapacity of Mrs. Abington was something altogether different from that with which other actresses with a liking for adventure were accredited--or discredited; and Betsy was right.
As long as these prejudices persist, the struggle for existence must remain dominant, and bloodthirstiness and rapacity continue.
The people, one and all, live out their lives in a heedless stupor and the chief virtues of man are held to be his rapacity and his thirst for blood.
To animals of this kind, grown by time and rapacity to one hundred or one hundred and fifty feet long, the lion, the tiger, and even the elephant itself were but feeble opponents.
It is the most wakeful also, for the whole tribe sleep with their eyes open, and are consequently for ever upon the watch; so that, till their rapacity is satisfied, few other animals will venture to approach their station.
Thus, they would induce us to believe, that we derive little or no advantage from Great Britain, and thence they infer the injustice, rapacity and cruelty of her conduct towards us.
The security of the people from internal rapacity and violence, and from foreign invasion, is the end and design of government.
There are plenty of cavalry subalterns whose eagerness to see service is so strong, that they would submit to any arrangement that the rapacity of Government might impose.
But the odious government of the emperors was not the only grievance under which the people laboured in those disastrous times: patrician avarice concurred with imperial rapacity to increase the sufferings of the nation.
The new ruler's rapacity and arbitrary conduct caused the Assembly to depose and banish him, paying no attention to the feeble remonstrance of the Proprietors.
Tis true King Stephen hath done much amiss or hath allowed evil things to be done in his name, but Matilda will do worse, and will have less power than he to prevent the rapacity and bloodthirstiness of others!
Joss would sometimes visit his neighbours in their houses, explaining to them how all ancient custom, right and tradition was being broken through to gratify the rapacity of the ruling classes.
The towns, no less than the peasantry, were indignant at the rapacity and insolence of the minions of this potentate.
One is the extreme sharpness andrapacity of the capitalists and manufacturers; the other, the excesses, the avidity and ill-will of the workmen and artisans.
He was hated throughout the country, hated at the India House, hated, above all, by those wealthy and powerful servants of the Company, whoserapacity and tyranny he had withstood.
Another instance is found in Valerius Cato, who lost his patrimony when quite a youth by the rapacity of Sulla, and was compelled to teach in order to obtain a living.
Tacitus and Juvenal give instances of rapacity exercised on the provinces, but it must have been inconsiderable as compared with what it had been.
Humiliation of Prussia--Buonaparte's cruelty to the Duke of Brunswick--his rapacity and oppression in Prussia.
It showed the sincerity of Buonaparte's love for the cause of freedom; and it satisfied all the world of the excellent title of the imperial court to complain of the selfishness and rapacity of the French democracy.
We shall presently see the same forces of rapacity and avarice sowing the seeds for a not less excellent harvest in the world of civil life.
Thus out of evil comes good; out of oppression, rapacity and confiscation grow pure unselfishness, an unworldly ideal, a sense of the invisible realm.
The latter leads to the violation of treaties, encroachments upon feeble neighbors, and rapacity toward their wards whose lands are coveted.
They protect the feeble against the strong, and the defenceless against rapacity and craft.
