At the Bar it torments the Bench, whose Business it is to cut off all Superfluities in what is spoken before it by the Practitioner; as well as several little Pieces of Injustice which arise from the Law it self.
This Humourist keeps to himself much more than he wants, and gives a vast Refuse of his Superfluities to purchase Heaven, and by freeing others from the Temptations of Worldly Want, to carry a Retinue with him thither.
Extinguish Vanity in the Mind, and you naturally retrench the little Superfluities of Garniture and Equipage.
Take from the superfluitiesof others what your necessities crave.
Thus nature has made two passages to cleanse the superfluities of the brain.
It was her care to prepare their meals, to rear the poultry, and go sometimes to Port Louis, and sell the superfluities of these little plantations, which were not very considerable.
If we wish to engage in commerce, we can do so by carrying our superfluities to the town, without my wandering to the Indies.
He taught the use of outward things[27] only as they were necessary to life and commerce; forbidding superfluities and curiosities.
It is certainly much better to supply defects and abridge superfluities by occasional notes and observations, than to disorganize or greatly alter a system which has been so long established.
They cried down wearing of rings and other superfluities as we do.
But the other superfluities of the human body are such as not to be needed, so that it matters not how they are emitted, provided one observe the decencies of social life.
To give out of a man's superfluities to the needy was, they held, undoubtedly a bounden duty.
Namely, when on the part of the receiver there is evident and urgent necessity, and he does not seem likely to be provided for otherwise, and when on the part of the giver he has superfluities of which he has not any probable immediate need.
His possession of superfluitiesdoes not compel him to part with them unless there is some real want which they can be expected to supply.
Weddings, however, are economically managed, and the parents of the parties usually contribute of their superfluities for the young couple's accommodation.
From society and the luxury to which it gives birth arise the liberal and mechanical arts, commerce, letters, and all thosesuperfluities which make industry flourish, and enrich and ruin nations.
It is not therefore so great a misfortune to these primitive men, nor so great an obstacle to their preservation, that they go naked, have no dwellings and lack all the superfluities which we think so necessary.
The necessities of the public are supplied out of the superfluities of individuals.
He who has only necessaries should not be taxed at all; superfluities should be supertaxed; there should be heavy imposts on every sort of luxury.
He who possesses only the common necessaries of life should pay nothing at all, while the tax on him who is in possession of superfluities may justly be extended to everything he has over and above mere necessaries.
Throughout the whole circle, both of natural and moral life, necessaries are as iron, and superfluities as gold.
Engines should be fixed in proper places to weigh chairs as they weigh waggons; and those, whom ease and plenty have made unable to carry themselves, should give part of their superfluities to those who carry them.
They supply a part of her dominions with the necessaries of life; they consume superfluities which give bread to her people in another part.
Superfluities of life, the, a tale from Tieck, Chap.
Here as at home, I remarked that the vendors of these superfluities occupy the approaches to this Vanity-Fair.
I ate the last supply of animal food, a miserable starved pullet, with rice and Chili vinegar; my tea, sugar, and all other superfluities having been long before exhausted.
To dens of guilt and shades of care, Ye sons of melody repair, Nor deign the festive dome to cloy With superfluities of joy.
In her moral qualities Cesarine was like her mother, somewhat bettered by the superfluities of education; she loved music, drew the Madonna della Sedia in chalk, and read the works of Mmes.
By retrenching a few superfluities in my life, I can return the four hundred francs Madame de Listomere has lent me in three years; so do not make yourself uneasy about them, my dear Cesar.
At the bar it torments the bench, whose business it is to cut off all superfluitiesin what is spoken before it by the practitioner; as well as several little pieces of injustice which arise from the law itself.
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