 ... acts both of charity and generosity. It was a frugality founded not upon avarice, but upon the love of independency. The extreme gentleness of his nature never weakened either the firmness of his mind or the steadiness of his resolutions.  The Competitor - Page 1281882Full view - About this book
 | James Lumsden - Scottish poetry - 1905 - 396 pages
...charity and generosity. It was a frugality, founded not upon avarice, but upon the love of independency. The extreme gentleness of his nature never weakened either the firmness of his mind or the steadfastness of his resolutions. His constant pleasantry was the genuine effusion of good nature and... | |
 | James Lumsden - Scottish poetry - 1905 - 388 pages
...great and necessary frugality never hindered him from exercising, upon proper occasions, acts both of charity and generosity. It was a frugality, founded not upon avarice, but upon the love of independency. The extreme gentleness of his nature never weakened either the firmness of his mind or... | |
 | David Hume - Ethics - 1907 - 324 pages
...great and necessary frugality never hindered him from exercising, upon proper occasions, acts both of charity and generosity. It was a frugality founded not upon avarice, but upon the love of independency. The extreme gentleness of his nature never weakened either the firmness of his mind or... | |
 | Adam Smith - Biography & Autobiography - 1987 - 500 pages
...great and necessary frugality never hindered him from exercising, upon proper occasions, acts both of charity and generosity. It was a frugality founded, not upon avarice, but upon the love of independency. The extreme gentleness of his nature never weakened either the firmness of his mind,... | |
 | Ernest Campbell Mossner - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 768 pages
...great and necessary frugality never hindered him from exercising, upon proper occasions, acts both of charity and generosity. It was a frugality founded not upon avarice, but upon the love of independency. The extreme gentleness of his nature never weakened either the firmness of his mind,... | |
 | Albert William Levi - Ethics - 1995 - 188 pages
...indeed, seemed to be more happily balanced than that perhaps of any other man I have ever known. . . . The extreme gentleness of his nature never weakened...the firmness of his mind, or the steadiness of his resolution. His constant pleasantry was the genuine effusion of good nature and good humor, tempered... | |
 | Wayne P. Pomerleau - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 566 pages
...if I may be allowed such an expression, than that perhaps of any other man I have ever known. . . . The extreme gentleness of his nature never weakened...of his mind, or the steadiness of his resolutions. . . . Upon the whole, I have always considered him. both in his lifetime, and since his death, as approaching... | |
 | James Fieser - Philosophy - 2005 - 468 pages
...charity and generosity. It was a frugality founded, not upon avarice, but upon the love of independency. The extreme gentleness of his nature never weakened...pleasantry was the genuine effusion of good-nature and good-humour, tempered with delicacy and modesty, and without even the slightest tincture of malignity,... | |
 | Margaret Atherton - Philosophy - 1999 - 288 pages
...of A Treatise of Human Nature. him from exercising . . . acts both of charity and generosity. . . . The extreme gentleness of his nature never weakened...pleasantry was the genuine effusion of good-nature and good-humor, tempered with delicacy and modesty, and without even the slightest tincture of malignity... | |
 | Amélie Oksenberg Rorty - Philosophy - 2003 - 544 pages
...great and necessary frugality never hindered him from exercising, upon proper occasions, acts both of charity and generosity. It was a frugality founded, not upon avarice, but upon the love of independency. The extreme gentleness of his nature never weakened either the firmness of his mind,... | |
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