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<p>In the existing state of the money-market,<lb/>the hoards of the <hi rend='underline'>opulent</hi> are prolific and accumulating:<lb/> the hoards of the <hi rend='underline'>poor</hi> alone are dead and unproductive.</p> <head>Note (b) continued.</head> the other virtues: to none more than to <hi rend='underline'>generosity</hi>,<lb/> to which by the unthinking it is so apt to be<lb/>regarded as an <hi rend='underline'>adversary</hi>. <hi rend='underline'>The sacrifice of the present<lb/> to the future</hi> is the common basis of all the virtues:<lb/>— frugality is among the most difficult and persevering<lb/> exemplifications of that sacrifice.— Important in all<lb/>classes, it is more particularly so in those which<lb/> | <p>In the existing state of the money-market,<lb/>the hoards of the <hi rend='underline'>opulent</hi> are prolific and accumulating:<lb/> the hoards of the <hi rend='underline'>poor</hi> alone are dead and unproductive.</p> <head>Note (b) continued.</head> the other virtues: to none more than to <hi rend='underline'>generosity</hi>,<lb/> to which by the unthinking it is so apt to be<lb/>regarded as an <hi rend='underline'>adversary</hi>. <hi rend='underline'>The sacrifice of the present<lb/> to the future</hi> is the common basis of all the virtues:<lb/>— frugality is among the most difficult and persevering<lb/> exemplifications of that sacrifice.— Important in all<lb/>classes, it is more particularly so in those which<lb/> most abound in uncultivated minds. In these, to<lb/>promote frugality is to promote <hi rend='underline'>sobriety</hi>:—to curb<lb/>that raging vice which in peaceful times outstrips<lb/>all other moral causes of unhappiness put together.<lb/>In the prospects opened by frugality, the wife and<lb/>children have a principal share:—they derive nothing<lb/>but vexation and distress, from the money spent at<lb/> | ||
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In the existing state of the money-market,
the hoards of the opulent are prolific and accumulating:
the hoards of the poor alone are dead and unproductive.
Note (b) continued. the other virtues: to none more than to generosity,
to which by the unthinking it is so apt to be
regarded as an adversary. The sacrifice of the present
to the future is the common basis of all the virtues:
— frugality is among the most difficult and persevering
exemplifications of that sacrifice.— Important in all
classes, it is more particularly so in those which
most abound in uncultivated minds. In these, to
promote frugality is to promote sobriety:—to curb
that raging vice which in peaceful times outstrips
all other moral causes of unhappiness put together.
In the prospects opened by frugality, the wife and
children have a principal share:—they derive nothing
but vexation and distress, from the money spent at
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annuity notes |
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311 |
annuity notes moral advantages |
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note (b) |
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1798 am |
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frances wright |
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1798 |
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1050 |
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