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Generosity a where a virtue is effective benevolence, it is friendliness on a larger scale – It is effective
benevolence when it transfers money or money's worth it is friendliness not
bounded by the circle of acquaintance, but extending to persons in general.
Friendliness implies a preference. Generosity is diffusive.

Generosity without the guidance of prudence or benevolence is
vice & folly. He who gives away all that he has to another who
wants it less than himself, and thus confers less pleasure than he sacrifices does a very generous but a very
foolish act. So he who lavishes money or money's worth for
a pernicious purpose however generous the expenditure may be is
doing a vicious deed.

The beneficence benevolence must be judged of by the sacrifice made. The A small
act which ia sum of money for example given by a poor man might be generous, woul would be evidence of generosity while the
giving a large considerable sum would scarcely be so from a man extremely
opulent. The generosity of the poor to it is generally visible
in personal services – in the dedication of their time – in the exposure
of their persons – in the risks they run. That of the more privileged
classes in a mixture of personal & pecuniary services. As the
value of money becomes less, & the station of the generous person is
higher, money becomes more & more the instrument of generosity.
At every stage, however, the same tests apply.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	289	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f138
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks	j & m mills 1828
Marginals		Paper Producer	john fraunceis gwyn
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1828
Notes public		ID Number	5505
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