 ... 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
 | SEVERAL HANDS - 1777 - 590 pages
...frugality never hindered him from exercifing, upon proper occafions, aits both of charity and generolity. It was a frugality founded, not upon avarice, but upon the love of independency. The extreme gentlenefs of his nature never weakened either the firmnefs of his mind,... | |
 | David Hume, Adam Smith - Philosophers - 1777 - 138 pages
...frugality never hindered him from exercifing, upon proper occafions, ads both of charity and generofity. It was a frugality founded, not upon avarice, but upon the love of indepen*. dency. The extreme gentlenefs of his nature never weaken^. ed either the firmnefs of his... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1789 - 536 pages
...frugality never hindered him from exercifing, upon proper occafions, acts both of charity and generofity. It was a frugality founded not upon avarice, but upon the love of independency. The extreme gentlenels of his nature never weakened either the firmnefs of his mind,... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1789 - 452 pages
...frugality never hindered him from exercifing, upon proper occafions, acts both of charity and generofity. It was a frugality founded not upon avarice, but upon the love of independency. The extreme gentlenefs of his nature never weakened either the firmnefs of his mind,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1804 - 666 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 independence His constant pleasantry was the genuine effusion of good-nature and goodhumour, tempered with delicacy... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1809 - 612 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 thelove of 1 808.} Death of Samuel Finley, DD independency. The extreme gen. tleness of his nature... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1810 - 540 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...His constant pleasantry was the genuine effusion of good nature and good humour, tempered with delicacy and modesty, and without even the slightest tincture... | |
 | David Hume, Tobias Smollett - England - 1825 - 480 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,... | |
 | David Hume - Ethics - 1826 - 508 pages
...great and necessary frugality never hindered him from exercising1, 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,... | |
 | William Draper - Economics - 1830 - 44 pages
...great and necessary frugality never hindered him from exercising, on 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... | |
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