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    liberality


    1. Sometimes, indeed, the liberality, more frequently the ignorance, of the landlord, makes him accept of somewhat less than this portion ; and sometimes, too, though more rarely, the ignorance of the tenant makes him undertake to pay somewhat more, or to content himself with somewhat less, than the ordinary profits of farming stock in the neighbourhood


    2. Though the bank, therefore, paid no seignorage, though the government was properly at the expense of this coinage, this liberality of government did not prevent altogether the expense of the bank


    3. By its liberality in granting cash-accounts, and in discounting bills of exchange, it, no doubt, issued great quantities of its bank notes


    4. A great part of the proprietors, when they paid in their first instalment, opened a cash-account with the bank; and the directors, thinking themselves obliged to treat their own proprietors with the same liberality with which they treated all other men, allowed many of them to borrow upon this cash-account what they paid in upon


    5. Nobody affects the character of liberality and good fellowship, by being profuse of a liquor which is as cheap as small beer


    6. The usual effect of such bounties is, to encourage rash undertakers to adventure in a business which they do not understand; and what they lose by their own negligence and ignorance, more than compensates all that they can gain by the utmost liberality of government


    7. But those liberal wages, joined to the plenty and cheapness of land, soon make those labourers leave him, in order to become landlords themselves, and to reward with equal liberality other labourers, who soon leave them for the same reason that they left their first master


    8. The liberality of England, however, towards the trade of her colonies, has been confined chiefly to what concerns the market for their produce, either in its rude state, or in what may be called the very first stage of manufacture


    9. In those of the former kind, liberality, frankness, and good fellowship, naturally make a part of their common character ; in the latter, narrowness, meanness, and a selfish disposition, averse to all social pleasure and enjoyment


    10. fruquently, too, by cultivating all those arts which best deserve, and which are therefore most likely to gain them, the esteem of people of rank and fortune; by their knowledge in all the different branches of useful and ornamental learning, by the decent liberality of their manners, by the social good humour of their conversation, and by their avowed contempt of those absurd and hypocritical austerities which fanatics inculcate and pretend to practise, in order to draw upon themselves the veneration, and upon the greater part of men of rank and fortune, who avow that they do not practise them, the abhorrence of the common people

    11. In general, there is not perhaps, any one article of expense or consumption by which the liberality or narrowness of a man's whole expense can be better judged of than by his house-rent


    12. A hospitality in which there is no luxury, and a liberality in which there is no ostentation, occasion, in this situation of things, the principal expenses of the rich and the great


    13. But the instances, I believe, are not very numerous, of people who have been ruined by a hospitality or liberality of this kind; though the hospitality of luxury, and the liberality of


    14. Hence it is essential that the converted spy be treated with the utmost liberality


    15. This liberality created rancor among the faithful who had borne the brunt of the whip of persecution as others had run for the cover of denial


    16. is that which I require, and which I desire of you, and this is the princely liberality proceeding from yourself; I desire therefore that


    17. 46 And now O Lord the king this is that which I require and which I desire of you and this is the princely liberality proceeding from yourself; I desire therefore that you make good the vow the performance of which with your own mouth you have vowed to the King of Heaven


    18. or he who exhorts, in his exhortation; he who gives, with liberality; he who leads, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness


    19. Let us delight in the liberality of the Lord of prayer


    20. Never could Philip find anything in Jesus which was small, niggardly, or stingy, and he worshiped this ever-present and unfailing liberality

    21. Prayer does not move the divine heart to liberality of bestowal, but it does so often dig out larger and deeper channels wherein the divine bestowals may flow to the hearts and souls of those who thus remember to maintain unbroken communion with their Maker through sincere prayer and true worship


    22. And, worst of all, it is an age of spurious liberality, when, under the high-sounding phrases of "No party spirit! no bigotry!" and the like, men live and die without having any distinct opinions at all


    23. Oh, mighty condescension! Oh, wondrous liberality! We will let laymen do rough work which could not be clone at all without them, and which they have no need to ask the clergy's leave to do! If this is all that people mean when they talk of enlisting "lay co-operation," I am sorry for them


    24. Shyness and chivalry; clemency and mercy; sympathy, tenderness and pity; knowledge; patience; wisdom; courage, intrepidity and bravery; generosity, open-handedness and liberality; justice, loftiness and continence; good management and fine conduct and direction of one’s affairs and such like: whichever of these qualities you mention, all of them were possessed by the brave commander and the bold hero, the veteran politician, the experienced leader, the judicious scholar, the wise master, the merciful clement man, the clear-eyed and discerning ruler


    25. Again: Tellson's was a munificent house, and extended great liberality to old customers who had fallen from their high estate


    26. "I looked for no less, my lord, from your High Magnificence," replied Don Quixote, "and I have to tell you that the boon I have asked and your liberality has granted is that you shall dub me knight to-morrow morning, and that to-night I shall watch my arms in the chapel of this your castle; thus tomorrow, as I have said, will be accomplished what I so much desire, enabling me lawfully to roam through all the four quarters of the world seeking adventures on behalf of those in distress, as is the duty of chivalry and of knights-errant like myself, whose ambition is directed to such deeds


    27. My father went beyond liberality and bordered on prodigality, a disposition by no means advantageous to a married man who has children to succeed to his name and position


    28. disposition, as was shown by his extreme liberality to his brother, the famous John Andrea Doria; and what made his death the more sad was that he was slain by some Arabs to whom, seeing that the fort was now lost, he entrusted himself, and who offered to conduct him in the disguise of a Moor to Tabarca, a small fort or station on the coast held by the Genoese employed in the coral fishery


    29. After all, where envy reigns virtue cannot live, and where there is niggardliness there can be no liberality


    30. Those that followed Interest were distinguished in the same way; the badge of the first announced "Liberality," that of the second "Largess," the third "Treasure," and the fourth "Peaceful Possession

    31. Poetry withdrew, and on the side of Interest Liberality advanced, and after having gone through her figures, said:


    32. Ferrars, with the utmost liberality, will come forward, and settle on him a thousand a year, if the match takes place


    33. "Certainly," said Elinor; "and assisted by her liberality, I hope you may yet live to be in easy circumstances


    34. After a few moments' chat, John Dashwood, recollecting that Fanny was yet uninformed of her sister's being there, quitted the room in quest of her; and Elinor was left to improve her acquaintance with Robert, who, by the gay unconcern, the happy self-complacency of his manner while enjoying so unfair a division of his mother's love and liberality, to the prejudice of his banished brother, earned only by his own dissipated course of life, and that brother's integrity, was confirming her most unfavourable opinion of his head and heart


    35. Though his eyes had been long opened, even before his acquaintance with Elinor began, to her ignorance and a want of liberality in some of her opinions-- they had been equally imputed, by him, to her want of education; and till her last letter reached him, he had always believed her to be a well-disposed, good-hearted girl, and thoroughly attached to himself


    36. famed for their liberality and generosity


    37. just as I was musing on a liberality I had certainly not expected, Mrs


    38. Duncan perceived that even his own powers were spoken lightly of, as the scout extended his palm, and mentioned him by the appellation of the "Open Hand"—a name his liberality had purchased of all the friendly tribes


    39. In short, Uncas and his father became converts to his way of thinking, abandoning their own previously expressed opinions with a liberality and candor that, had they been the representatives of some great and civilized people, would have infallibly worked their political ruin, by destroying forever their reputation for consistency


    40. David parted with the several articles named with a readiness that would have done great credit to his liberality, had he not certainly profited, in many particulars, by the exchange

    41. owe my fortune, such as it is, to the liberality of the illustrious Albanese chief


    42. I was beginning to express my gratitude to my benefactor for the great liberality with which I was treated, when Mr


    43. Cole should come in, I found in one of my pockets a purse of guineas, which he had slipt there; and just as I was musing on a liberality I had certainly not expected, Mrs


    44. He was, in his original, a lad of the place, who had gone into Glasgow, where he was in a topping line; and happening to be on a visit to his friends at the time, he came to the meeting and put down his name for twenty guineas, which he gave me in bank-notes—a sum of such liberality as had never been given to the town from one individual man, since the mortification of fifty pounds that we got by the will of Major Bravery that died in Cheltenham, in England, after making his fortune in India


    45. By this method, and together with what I had done personally in the tempest, I got great praise and laud from all reflecting people; and it is not now to be told what a consolation was brought to many a sorrowful widow and orphan’s heart, by the patience and temperance with which the fund of liberality was distributed; yet because a small sum was reserved to help some of the more helpless at another time, and the same was put out to interest in the town’s books, there were not wanting evil-minded persons who went about whispering calumnious innuendos to my disadvantage; but I know, by this time, the nature of the world, and how impossible it is to reason with such a seven-headed and tenhorned beast as the multitude


    46. "Then, why don't you extend your liberality to others?" said Will, still nettled


    47. For hardly anybody doubted that some scandalous reason or other was at the bottom of Bulstrode's liberality to Lydgate


    48. "He was afraid of some betrayal in my hearing: all he wanted was to bind me to him by a strong obligation: that was why he passed on a sudden from hardness to liberality


    49. The liberality of the father in this instance had shed into the heart of the son a real love, in which there was no afterthought of self-interest


    50. The former type of sliding scale, based on time intervals, is a readily understandable method of reducing the liberality of a conversion privilege



































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    Synonyms for "liberality"

    liberality liberalness

    "liberality" definitions

    an inclination to favor progress and individual freedom


    the trait of being generous in behavior and temperament