It is quite impossible for workmen and poor people generally to plan estates and arrange their own homes; they are entirely at the mercy of the wealthy in this matter.
Few wealthy people really grudge the poor a share of the necessities of life, and most are quite willing to assist in projects for such a distribution.
The average working man is not half the age of the ripe politicians and judges and lawyers and wealthy organisers who trip him up legally, accuse him of bad faith, mark his every inconsistency.
From a small peddling business he had built up one of the largest and wealthiest establishments in that part of London, catering to the wealthy and the titled nobility.
On the other hand, if compensation is given, will there not be still a privileged class, a wealthy class, that is, and a poorer class?
The naked savage, so long as he possessed plenty of weapons, and could get an abundance of fish or game, was, from the viewpoint of the society in which he lived, a wealthy man.
Robinson Crusoe, for whom the possibility of exchange did not exist, was, from this pre-capitalist viewpoint, a very wealthy man.
The dancers appear in from two to five parties, representing neighboring villages, each of which is aided by the wealthy men of other villages; and these parties vie with each other primarily in the display of their regalia.
Now, thanks to a wealthy relative, who left me a fortune, I am amply provided for.
How cruel are the parents Who riches only prize, And to the wealthy booby Poor Woman sacrifice!
The great, the wealthyfear thy blow From pomp and pleasure torn; But, oh!
She was a wealthy lady, and gave us to understand in a pleasant way, that she did not entertain travelers.
He earns his living partly as interpreter in the law courts and partly by acting as guide to any wealthy Orientals who may visit the Northumberland Avenue hotels.
It only remains for us to find out what this secret was which the sailor Hudson seems to have held over the heads of these two wealthy and respected men.
We were able to find out, by communicating with the gentleman who had answered the advertisement, that the unfortunate young lady came of a wealthy Grecian family, and that she had been on a visit to some friends in England.
She was bound from New Orleans to New York, and the most of her passengers were wealthy people, going to the North for the winter.
His wish of engaging the enemy having been foiled by their retreat into Pesaro, he had recourse to his former tactics of removing the seat of war from his own state, and turned his arms against the more wealthy towns of the Marca.
The wealthy Florentines lavished their gold to send him back upon Upper Italy, which the timely distribution of a few thousand men in the Apennine gorges might have prevented him from ever quitting.
There must be lots of wealthy girls who would like to be called queen.
He reflected that if the American girl were really enormously wealthy and if, which he doubted, her manners were tolerable, it might be worth while to marry her.
The lady herself cannot pay; but the King--she tells me that his Majesty has recently sold an estate situated in Megalia to a wealthy American.
Gorman knew Donovan pretty well; as indeed he knew all wealthy Irish-Americans.
Nevertheless, Margaret was an astute mother, for when Ladislaus was eighteen years old she espoused him to Constance, daughter of the Count of Clermont in Sicily, a very wealthy heiress.
The only wealthy member of the Sicily-Anjou family was the Queen of Naples, and she was financing King Louis III.
The boy’s mother was Countess Marie de Châtillon, thewealthy heiress of the ducal line of Blois-Bretagne.
Herculaneum, on the other hand, was the favorite resort of wealthy Romans, who built beautiful villas there as in our times people from modern Rome settle for the summer at Sorrento and Castellammare.
The first disciple of Francis was a wealthy resident of Assisi, named Bernardo.
After the usual fashion of the Italians who seldom travel, the Torlonia, wealthy as they are, simply remove from their palace in Rome to their villa at Frascati instead of travelling to Switzerland, Germany, or elsewhere in the summer.
Pietro Bernardone was a wealthy merchant of Assisi.
Pompeii was a commonplace provincial town devoted exclusively to commerce; it was not the resort of wealthy and cultured Romans.
Even in the tomb of Ti at Sakkara, which dates from the time of the Pyramids, we meet with a chief overseer of the vessels belonging to a wealthy Egyptian.
Rhoda of the Ardeates, in distant Iberia, the wealthy Tartessus, Sinope in the far East on the shores of Pontus, in short, every tribe that could boast of Hellenic descent was well represented.
The village of Plesscovacz, which was nearest at hand, is a wealthy settlement; it has a dean, and a fine church with two towers.
Shall I take him with me and make him into a great and wealthy man?
After the concentration of troops in Komorn, Timar had suddenly become a wealthy man.
They will gamble at cards, and run into debt; until they get desperate and fly to me with their jewels, to stave off their creditors until luck turns or some wealthy relative leaves them a fortune.
Diocesan Funds, on the other hand, seem to have attracted the attention of wealthy donors chiefly in Dunedin and in Waiapu.
She is the daughter of a widow; he, the only son of a wealthy London merchant.
On your beautiful Commonwealth Avenue yesterday afternoon I met an elegantly dressed lady, I suppose a wealthy one from her jewels and dress.
There is a beautiful story told of one of the most influential and wealthy men of England.
A wealthy widow and her only son were there from New York, where the young boy had been leading a "gay life.
He married a wealthy widow and had everything wealth and refinement could suggest.
He was the son of Rowland Dee, who, according to Wood, was a wealthy vintner, but who is described by Strype as Gentleman Sewer to Henry VIII.
He was the second son of Richard Farmer, a wealthy maltster of that town.
I should put it carefully together," replied the man, "and set it where a wealthy customer would be sure to knock it over again.
He had asserted more than once that if he were wealthy he would never race a two-year-old.
Wealthy friends contributed freely and the campaign was run regardless of expense.
In April following he married Martha Denny Martin, daughter of a wealthy North Carolina planter and slave-owner.
The Baron is beginning to find out that with all his possessions he is lost in the crowd of wealthy men, while we have grown to be a power in the province and are recognised as such by every one.
Shall I not leave you a wealthy man, I who began life without a penny in my pocket?
