It has been out of hardness, out of struggles, out of self-denials, out of that thrift and economy which was an incident of your soil, that the best things in New England have come.
His home and farm display taste and thrift worthy of commendation.
Its appearance gives evidence of enterprise and thrift on the part of its citizens.
I fear, good, pious soul, that you mistake Your thrift for toleration.
Here the sown seeds yield Abundant grain that whitens all the field-- There the smit corn stands barren on the plain, Thrift reaps the straw and Famine gleans in vain.
To improve your property, the vile cascade Your thrift invites--to make a higher level.
He insists on thrift and self-respect, but at the same time counsels a silent submission to civic inferiority such as is bound to sap the manhood of any race in the long run.
Not even ten additional years of slavery could have done so much to throttle the thrift of the freedmen as the mismanagement and bankruptcy of the series of savings banks chartered by the Nation for their especial aid.
If by 1874 the Georgia Negro alone owned three hundred and fifty thousand acres of land, it was by grace of histhrift rather than by bounty of the government.
The "gray-haired gentleman" has left a grandson who has all the culture and education money and thrift can buy.
His industry, thrift and economy are everywhere in evidence and he is bravely and consciously struggling toward the plane where his vindication as a man and a citizen is what he is and what he has acquired.
As the Negro secures a home in the city, learns the lessons of industry and thrift and becomes a taxpayer, his moral life improves.
Also, climate makes an important factor, hence the different sections of our country employ to a large extent different kinds of labor, suited to the prevailing industries, thrift and enterprises.
By economy and thrift he maintained himself in this institution for eight years, graduating in 1893, second in his class.
Under normal conditions there should be ninety-two per cent of Negro wealth, thrift and energy in the South.
Let some great, towering example of Negro manhood and thrift and virtue and wisdom point the youth to the pole star of redemption.
The exploitation of this solid mass of industry and thrift could not long be obscured from the eyes of the East.
And it was astonishing how few the needy were--because of the abstemious lives, the industry, and the thrift of the workers.
But here was a republic almost without natural resources, which had yet supplied by human intelligence and thrift what a niggard nature had denied.
But this gift of to-day is made possible only by the industry and thrift of yesterday.
For the child's sake he turned again to his loom; love taught him thrift and industry.
His immediate descendants were famous and sturdy Puritans, characterized by their thrift and force of character.
In brief his thrift was altogether admirable, and the mechanical devices by which he made the most of every opportunity, suggested a fertilely inventive mind on the part of a man whose general demeanor was stolid to the verge of stupidity.
Sometimes, no doubt, thisthrift descended to the ludicrous.
To the provident operative you have by your Post Office Savings Bank bill given security for his small savings, and your Government Annuities bill of this session is a measure which will stimulate the people to greater thrift and forethought.
This slightly improvident thrift recalls the jealous persons who will not suffer the British Museum to burn its rubbish, on the curious principle that what was never worth producing must always be worth preserving.
Frith Street in old maps is marked "Thrift Street," a name by no means inappropriate at the present time.
He contrasts his own habits of thrift with the prodigence of his ward: "I should have gotten along two years with the walking-coat.
Pandolfini tells his sons that Onore is one of the qualities which require the greatest thrift in keeping, and Machiavelli asserts that it is almost as dangerous to attack men in their Onore as in their property.
The few white people here are anxious to see the negro educated up to a higher standard of citizenship in morality, thrift and economy, as well as intellectual advancement.
A savings bank has been founded on the grounds to encourage thrift habits by receiving savings from teachers, students and coloured people living in the vicinity.
Now I do not doubt that thou wilt perish of famine before the rest, and be the first to need a tomb; for thou hast passed this strange law of thrift in fear that thou wilt be thyself the first to lack food.
Thrift consists in increasing the value of our possessions every year, by making good investments of our time and money, and by earning more than is spent for living expenses.
Thrift and order are apparent everywhere indoors and out.
Instead of individual thrift and general prosperity, poverty and famine prevail throughout the land.
No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning.
And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee, Where thrift may follow fawning.
It is evident from the foregoing that there had been almost nothing in the conditions of Africa to further habits of thrift and industry.
If I have rightly apprehended the nature of the training afforded by Africa and slavery there was little in them to develop the habits of forethought, thrift and industry, upon which this reliability must be based.
No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee, Where thrift may follow fawning.
Try as he would, he could not introduce any habit of thrift into the family.
Her utmostthrift could not make it other than scanty, and finally Dan pushed his plate away.
