 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - Ethics - 1755 - 434 pages
...characterifes a narrow, grovelling, Difpofition, as Avarice does ; and nothing is more noble and more exalted than to defpife Riches, if you have them not,...to employ them in virtuous and generous Purpofes. (d) ' ' ' (<!) A Reader of very ordinary Erudition may eafily perceive An inordinate Paffion tor Glory,... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1850 - 364 pages
...grovelling disposition as to love riches;* and nothing is more noble and more exalted than to despise riches if you have them not, and if you have them, to employ them in beneficence and liberality. f An inordinate passion for glory, as I have already observed, is likewise... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1855 - 376 pages
...groveling disposition as to love riches ;' and nothing is more noble and more exalted than to despise riches if you have them not, and if you have them, to employ them in beneficence and liberality.' An inordinate passion for glory, as I have already observed, is likewise... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - Ethics - 1855 - 374 pages
...groveling disposition as to love riches ;' and nothing is more noble and more exalted than to despise riches if you have them not, and if you have them, to employ them in beneficence and liberality.3 An inordinate passion for glory, as I have already observed, is likewise... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1868 - 368 pages
...groveling disposition as to love riches ;' and nothing is more noble and more exalted than to despise riches if you have them not, and if you have them, to employ them in beneficence and liberality.3 An inordinate passion for glory, as I have already observed, is likewise... | |
 | Literature - 1886 - 494 pages
...grovelling .disposition, as avarice does ; and nothing is more noble and more exalted than to despise riches, if you have them not, and if you have them, to employ them in virtuous and generous purposes. An inordinate passion for glory, is likewise to be guarded against ; for it deprives us of... | |
 | Jesus Christ - Bible - 1888 - 236 pages
...narrow grovelling disposition as to love riches ; and nothing is more noble and exalted than to despise riches if you have them not, and if you have them to employ them in beneficence and liberality." God seems never to have left Himself without witness in fruitful lives... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 536 pages
...grovelling disposition as avarice does ; and nothing is more noble and more exalted than to despise riches, if you have them not, and if you have them, to employ them in virtuous and generous purposes. An inordinate passion for glory is likewise to be guarded against ; for it deprives us of... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - Ethics - 1902 - 296 pages
...grovelling disposition as to love riches; and nothing is more noble and more exalted than to despise riches if you have them not, and if you have them, to employ them in beneficence and liberality. An inordinate passion for glory, as I have already observed, is likewise... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1903 - 542 pages
...grovelling disposition as avarice does ; and nothing is more noble and more exalted than to despise riches, if you have them not, and if you have them, to employ them in virtuous and generous purposes. An inordinate passion for glory is likewise to be guarded against ; for it deprives us of... | |
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An inordinate passion for glory, as I have already observed, is likewise to be guarded against ; for it deprives us of liberty, the only prize for which men of elevated sentiments ought to contend. Power is so far from being desirable in itself, that... 
