Tell D'Alembert I make him absolute master to retrench or alter what he thinks proper in order to suit it to the latitude of Paris.
The proper line of conduct therefore was by a well-directed economy to retrench every current expense, and to make as large a saving during the peace as possible.
Defn: To cause or suffer retrenchment; specifically, to cut down living expenses; as, it is more reputable to retrench than to live embarrassed.
Defn: To furnish with a retrenchment; as, toretrench bastions.
To lessen; to abridge; to curtail; as, to retrench superfluities or expenses.
Set against this saving the expenses of the journey, and the saving will not be great to those who do not retrench in their mode of life, but live in France in the same style as at home.
But I must retrench at every point, and then I don't see how I'm to get along.
He will, doubtless, think a good while, and retrench at a good many points, before he orders an other discontinuance.
Every new advance of the price to the consumer is a new incentive to him to retrench the quality of his consumption.
It was resolved to announce certain intended graces in the speech from the throne; that is, to declare the king's readiness to pass bills that might remedy some grievances and retrench a part of his prerogative.
For as it is the chief Concern of Wise-Men, to retrench the Evils of Life by the Reasonings of Philosophy; it is the Employment of Fools, to multiply them by the Sentiments of Superstition.
Extinguish Vanity in the Mind, and you naturally retrench the little Superfluities of Garniture and Equipage.
Conversation, like the Romish Religion, was so encumbered with Show and Ceremony, that it stood in need of a Reformation to retrench its Superfluities, and restore it to its natural good Sense and Beauty.
Tell D'Alembert I make him absolute master, to retrench or alter what he thinks proper, in order to suit it to the latitude of Paris.
Thus you see my present plan of life sketched out; but it is unsuitable to my age and temper; and I am determined to retrench and to abandon the fine folks, before they abandon me.
First, that if they retrench any the smallest Particular in their ordinary Expence, it will easily make up the Half Penny a Day, which we have now under Consideration.
To retrench one Dish at my Table, till I have fetched it up again.
And then, with all the tenderness in her power, she came to the point, and conjured her without delay to retrench her expences, and change her thoughtless way of life for one more considerate and domestic.
If the fancy of Ovid be luxuriant, it is his character to be so; and, if I retrench it, he is no longer Ovid.
Grimm in a joke gave the same name to the daughter, and by way of abridgment was pleased to retrench the first word.
I at length determined to retrench them entirely, because, not being in the manner of the rest, they would have spoiled the interesting simplicity, which was its principal merit.
In like manner right reason does not retrench so much from a man's food as to render him incapable of fulfilling his duty.
It is easier to retrench than it is to add; I do not mean to flatter you, neighbour James, adulation would ill become my character, you may therefore believe what your pastor says.
In his works, you find little to retrenchor alter.
Must not I retrench one-half in every article of expense, or retire to some cheap, distant part of the country, where necessaries are at half value?
As to our affording it, I suppose he may have, at the worst, an allowance from the creditors, so you will not have to retrench anything.
Nor did the family expenses diminish, retrench his own indulgences as he might.
He could retrench his expenses by giving up the costly and useless settlement of Tangier; and he might hope for pecuniary aid from France.
Allow me to retrench something from these too abundant supplies.
But it is all theory; for when I came to the practical part I couldretrench nothing.
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