| 单词 | improvidence |
| 例句 | Travel magazine wrote, “The Osage Indian is today the prince of spendthrifts. Judged by his improvidence, the Prodigal Son was simply a frugal person with an inherent fondness for husks.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It strikes me, in my middle-class solipsism, that there is gross improvidence in some of these arrangements. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z As Ms. Israel told it, her forgeries were born less of avarice than of panic and began after a stretch of poor reviews and writer’s block, mixed with alcohol and improvidence. Lee Israel, a Writer Proudest of Her Literary Forgeries, Dies at 75 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z “They really just don’t save, and all these personal behaviors translate into international policy. Climate is another indicator of improvidence and lack of empathy — they don’t care really care about the environment, just about themselves.” WATCH: Baby boomers, it’s all your fault! 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z Two key factors in the SVB disaster can’t be overlooked: The incompetence of the bank’s management and the improvidence of its customers. Column: With demands for a bank bailout, Silicon Valley shows its 'small government' mantra was just a pose 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z “It is marked on the face, stamped on the skin, and evinced by the intellectual inferiority and natural improvidence of his race.” Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z In 1834, a Royal Commission issued a report insisting that poverty was almost always a result of “fraud, indolence or improvidence.” Breaking up families? America looks like a Dickens novel 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z Yet in its aftermath, this financial crisis is being treated more as an object lesson in personal improvidence than as a case for drastic financial reform. Austerity never works: Deficit hawks are amoral — and wrong 2013-05-05T16:00:00Z Sometimes it is clear that he had to protect the nuns, less against their own improvidence than against the enforced reception of nuns “dumped” upon them by powerful people outside their own ranks. Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z Early marriages the most conspicuous proofs of Irish improvidence, 144. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z Much less could he divine that the improvidence of that father had become a beacon, warning the daughter off the rocks which had been fatal to him! The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z The Indians, with their ordinary recklessness and improvidence, had neglected even to place a guard within the palisades. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z According to his creed, there was no folly, no fault, no idleness, no improvidence in the poor. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z Instead, you glowered at her, and read her a lecture about extravagance and improvidence. A Safety Match 2012-03-19T02:00:23.817Z His consternation almost gave way to despair when he discovered the fatal improvidence of the voyageurs, who, to lessen their burdens by a few pounds, had thrown away the fishing-nets and burned the floats. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z The ruin, which recklessness and improvidence had hidden from him, rose before him, certain and imminent. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z There are many such districts in London, where wealth and ease contrast with starvation and improvidence, all but within view of each other; the one gratifying the eye, the other causing it pain. A Life's Secret A Novel 2012-02-13T03:00:17.060Z Under the designation of Tabagueros, they constitute almost an exclusive class, and owing to their improvidence are usually in wretched plight. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-03T03:00:07.630Z Security from violence has fostered his natural improvidence. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z Can the law change the seasons for ye, or protect the careless from their own improvidence? The Mistress of Bonaventure 2011-11-28T03:00:22.190Z Some become poor through misfortune, some through improvidence, some through criminal indulgence, these through stanch adherence to duty. Old Wine and New Occasional Discourses 2011-10-20T02:00:26.230Z Perhaps that was to come: but Sam's natural improvidence stood in the way of much change. A Life's Secret A Novel 2012-02-13T03:00:17.060Z I have often and often threatened that I will take the cellarership into my own hands on account of your default and improvidence, for all of you keep incumbering yourselves with heavy debts. The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond: A Picture of Monastic Life in the Days of Abbot Samson 2011-10-18T02:00:19.523Z It is much better for him thus to receive annual gifts than to have received a large quantity at first, as the improvidence of these men surpasses belief. In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions 2011-10-10T02:00:18.377Z They taught her that there was neither virtue nor vice, but skill or stupidity, calculation or improvidence, decency or unseemliness. The Jew 2011-10-06T02:00:34.840Z Land is much subdivided, and though the condition of the labouring class is not as a rule unembarrassed, that result is due more to their own improvidence and indolence than to anything else. Contemporary Socialism 2011-09-10T02:00:28.673Z He feared for his deer, for his game, for his fences, and, besides, I verily believe he detested us for our improvidence. Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 1/2 A Romance of Real Life 2011-08-25T02:00:34.720Z These children lived with Montour's Indian relatives for over two years; sharing in the feasts when there was plenty, going pinched with hunger on the frequent occasions when improvidence had exhausted the supply. Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier 2011-08-06T02:00:04.917Z From the nature and power of the disorder, a general panic prevailed, aggravated by ignorance and superstition, and followed by improvidence and want. Memoir of Mary L. Ware, Wife of Henry Ware, Jr. 2011-08-02T02:00:25.157Z The consequence is, that vast numbers, whom indolence or improvidence have reduced to the necessity of running in debt to their white neighbors, are as truly slaves, as they were before the revolution. Rambles by Land and Water or Notes of Travel in Cuba and Mexico 2011-07-29T02:00:23.127Z If, as the President avers, we have been guilty of improvident legislation, what act of Congress is the most striking instance of that improvidence? The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 2011-07-27T02:00:32.830Z His gifts are too costly for such cheap improvidence. Tablets 2011-07-25T02:00:17.487Z Before and after the New Orleans time not the least of Hearn's misfortunes was his intolerable and brutalizing improvidence and impecuniousness. Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z Now, observe, all these sources of variation in the power of the currency exist wholly irrespective of the influences of vice, indolence, and improvidence. Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy 2011-06-29T02:00:26.763Z With insurance you win when you lose, but with stocks you may lose both ways and leave nothing but a reputation for selfish improvidence. The Best Policy 2011-06-13T02:00:32.860Z The winter of 1626-27 was very long and severe, the snow lying very deep and long on the ground, and the usual improvidence of the settlers causing provisions to run short. Narrative of a Voyage to the West Indies and Mexico In the Years 1599-1602 2011-05-30T02:00:21.633Z Good little Cassie Morgan feels never a moment's doubt as she piles her heaps—so much sorrow, so many petticoats: so much hopeless improvidence, so many pounds of tea and a coal-ticket. Old Kensington 2011-05-29T02:00:09.797Z It kills a man's self-respect, atrophies his powers, unfits him for anything, tempts him to improvidence and then turns him out to starve. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z But let idle prejudices enter into practical concerns—it's on a par—of all improvidence! The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z There was, too, an abiding faith in the future, a certain improvidence born of strong manhood and womanhood. Dr. John McLoughlin, the Father of Oregon 2011-05-20T02:00:38.647Z All the generosity, sweetness, and improvidence of Goldsmith's Irish nature were earnestly and genially presented. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:11.200Z Choiseul was the means of accelerating this revolution, not only by his abandonment of diplomatic traditions, but still more by his improvidence and violence. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z Why is it that some of these men who have profited by our mistakes and our improvidence in the past are fighting against this Conservation movement? Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 2011-05-07T02:00:26.100Z The extreme improvidence—I might say the reckless profusion—which dictated these grants is obvious: the total neglect of the government as to enforcing the conditions of the grants is not less so. History of Prince Edward Island 2011-04-16T02:00:17.027Z But whether you feel angry with him for his improvidence, or whether you are moved to compassion by contemplating his difficulties, you cannot help smiling at his excuses or parables. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I 2011-04-15T02:00:13.527Z Miss Grace began again about the improvidence of cutting Mrs. Dorothea in the premature manner they had done. Dilemmas of Pride, (Vol 1 of 3) 2011-04-06T02:00:04.340Z Spain, Italy, and portions of France, are now suffering from the improvidence that devoured their forests, leaving the future to take care of itself. What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science 2011-03-29T02:00:08.937Z We were to be the victims of the usual improvidence exhibited by governments not accustomed to warlike operations. Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land 2011-03-22T02:00:20.123Z By mutual co-operation and a common policy, the proprietors might have redeemed the grants of the imperial government from the charge of improvidence. History of Prince Edward Island 2011-04-16T02:00:17.027Z Now, for the first time, she was alone with the problem created by her mother's improvidence. The Daughter Pays 2011-03-19T02:00:09.513Z Put them back in the old environment, and in another generation or two they will have slipped back into the old habits of carelessness and improvidence. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z This system set a premium on improvidence if not on vice. The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources 2011-03-08T03:00:45.010Z They succeeded in relieving him and those who, in a state of real freedom, would have been dependent on him, from many of the penalties imposed by nature on idleness, improvidence, and misconduct. Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters 2011-03-06T03:00:21.020Z A fine plan, indeed! to make the poor pay for my improvidence and disorder! Tales from Blackwood Volume 4 2011-03-04T03:00:58.347Z Do you think I 'm not fully alive to everything you could say of my wasteful habits, my improvidence, indolence, irritability, and so forth? The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z Such are the legitimate results of the improvidence which caused roads to be built of foreign iron, over the coal and iron beds in our mountains. Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 2011-02-27T03:00:34.390Z His own constitutional improvidence added to the difficulties thus created. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Many men become paupers from their own improvidence or misconduct, and masters alone can prevent such misconduct and improvidence. Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters 2011-03-06T03:00:21.020Z Part of this is due, of course, to their own improvidence; but part, in too many cases, is due to exploitation by the landlord. Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy 2011-01-06T03:00:45.737Z The surging passions of the capital, bred and fed by vice and improvidence, are horrible to him. English Pharisees and French Crocodiles and Other Anglo-French Typical Characters 2010-12-20T17:12:04.833Z The people called it a mystery, but the scientists said it was merely the result of man’s improvidence in destroying the birds. Birds Illustrated by Color Photography [January, 1898] A Monthly Serial designed to Promote Knowledge of Bird-Life Even his natural improvidence in money matters can hardly excuse him for selling the copyright of all his stories as they came out, leaving no income to be derived from them after his death. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z There is none of the loss or damage which arises from the drunkenness and improvidence of the free laborer expending his own wages. Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters 2011-03-06T03:00:21.020Z I like these young marriages, and hang all those musty old fogies who preach about improvidence and so many hundreds a year! A Double Knot Such is their improvidence, that there are often times when they would absolutely starve were it not for the aid given gratuitously by the whites. Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands But the most of the required amount of corn was obtained by bartering various utensils and beads with the Indians, though their natural improvidence usually left them without much of a surplus in crops. William Bradford of Plymouth "Newspapers of your way of thinking, very likely," said Theophilus; "but if it comes to statistics, I can bring counter statements, numerous and dire, from scores of Southern papers, of vagrancy, laziness, improvidence, and wretchedness." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 99, January, 1866 From ignorance of these truths arise many of the worst social evils—disastrous strikes and lockouts, opposition to improvements, improvidence, destitution, misguided charity, and discouraging failure in many well-intended measures. Political economy Lumber.—In spite of great improvidence, and of loss by fire, the forest wealth of Canada is still the greatest in the world. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" English steadiness and thrift,—yes, very well; but he has a lingering tenderness still for Spanish levity and improvidence. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 It is idle, and worse than idle, to call in question the Providence of God for disaster caused solely by the improvidence of man. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 Like all men who have never known want themselves, he denied that it ever came save through improvidence. One Of Them His father was master of the alienation office, but by improvidence had fallen into reduced circumstances. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" It is marked on the face, stamped on the skin, and evinced by the intellectual inferiority, and natural improvidence of his race. Discussion on American Slavery Even sixpence a line of sixty letters did not suffice to keep pace with such terrible improvidence, though the remuneration was much more frequently fourpence or fivepence. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections "Good luck to him, and here's his health," cried Kellett, whose heart, though proof against all ordinary appeals to affection, could not withstand this assault of utter recklessness and improvidence. Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day The improvidence of my leader did not escape my attention. Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors To see him skipping along through green sea water in his dress-pumps, to look at the patent log, was a revelation of human improvidence. Captain Macedoine's Daughter He was himself well aware, and willing to allow on all occasions, that his chief failing was improvidence. Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment The sixth class consists also of widows; but they are remarkable for idleness, intemperance, or improvidence. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 All that is left is a dislike for work, carelessness, improvidence, and ignorance of the necessities of the present. Contemporary Russian Novelists Nor does this generosity seem, as might be thought, to have led to idleness and improvidence. The Position of Woman in Primitive Society A Study of the Matriarchy There was nothing to do now but to go back to her brother's noisy shiftless house; to work against wind and tide of laziness and improvidence. The Life of Nancy “Newspapers of your way of thinking, very likely,” said Theophilus; “but if it comes to statistics, I can bring counter-statements, numerous and dire, from scores of Southern papers, of vagrancy, laziness, improvidence, and wretchedness.” Household Papers and Stories Neither stream nor spring was close at hand, and with characteristic improvidence the teamsters had failed to fill their water-barrels at the stockade before starting. Laramie; or, The Queen of Bedlam. Everything was so wretched and unforeseen that the two were lost in this miserable new aspect of poverty and improvidence. Coquette It is too late to speak of the improvidence of killing bees, to get their honey. Soil Culture Most of my readers, no doubt, accept that philosophy of life on Sundays only; on week-days they swallow the usual contradictory economic platitudes about prudential forethought and the horrid improvidence of the lower classes. Miss Cayley's Adventures And hence a great deal of wild dissipation and profligacy, united, of course, to the inevitable improvidence. My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. But improvidence and mismanagement soon bore their legitimate fruits. History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 The store was a curious epitome of thrift and improvidence. The Missourian He had inspected his empty magazine and the rickety fort which the improvidence of the Company had allowed to fall into ruin. Old Quebec The Fortress of New France It is owing to their own improvidence and to the advice of the British traders by whom they were stimulated to kill the wild animals for their skins alone, when the flesh was not wanted. The Land of the Miamis An Account of the Struggle to Secure Possession of the North-West from the End of the Revolution until 1812 But whatever part of their improvidence is something in addition to the improvidence of ordinary mortals, belongs, I believe, to their want of education and of guidance. The Claims of Labour an essay on the duties of the employers to the employed The children may, without improvidence or folly, throw away a few thousands of dollars on the expedition, and bring back many fine books, pieces of furniture, and objects of art, to adorn their dwelling. Pepita Ximenez He considered his difficulties as entirely the result of his own improvidence, and rejoiced to think that Sydney's position was assured, no matter what might happen to himself. Name and Fame A Novel The real difficulty was the improvidence of the people; their inability to think for the future; and the necessity accordingly of the most unremitting and minute superintendence on the part of their instructors. Principles Of Political Economy Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical, and Explanatory Notes, and a Sketch of the History of Political Economy Of the improvidence of the peasantry of Ireland we never entertained a doubt. Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846 It may be said that the improvidence of the labouring people themselves is a large item in the account of the causes of their distress. The Claims of Labour an essay on the duties of the employers to the employed The general improvidence of the people is well illustrated by the following story related by a friend of the writer. The Negro Farmer Thus the average soldier-workman will return from the war confirmed and deepened in at least three main national characteristics: His combative hardihood, his ironic humour, and his improvidence. Another Sheaf What he sees is not so often symptomatic of undeserved misfortune, as of laziness, improvidence, and rank dishonesty. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule Of the value of this endowment the Indian, with all his improvidence, had some notion. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 It is, therefore, only putting the matter one step further off, to say that their distress is mainly caused by their improvidence, when so much of their improvidence is the fruit of their unguided ignorance. The Claims of Labour an essay on the duties of the employers to the employed These facts, together with Mr. Starkweather’s control of the finances, might possibly operate as the twin levers which would pry Henry out of his improvidence. Rope They would simply point to their contract and shrug their shoulders at Charles's improvidence. Mummery A Tale of Three Idealists He’s not going to set aside the laws of nature to cover our improvidence. Dr. Sevier Their improvidence made them the drudges of the company. War from the Inside The Story of the 132nd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in the War for the Suppression of the Rebellion, 1862-1863 He was, and is, routine impersonate, exponent of sound business personified; a living sermon against sloth and improvidence, and easy derelictions of the flesh. A Breath of Prairie and other stories Everything had favoured him but his own improvidence, and on the eve of what he believed to be a financial boom, he found himself in what he described as “a cleft stick.” The Tale of Timber Town That drunkenness, improvidence, love of gambling, and so forth, do in fact lead to pauperism is undeniable; and that they are bad, and so far disgraceful, is a necessary consequence. Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2) Addresses to Ethical Societies I bitterly repented our improvidence in not providing ourselves, as we easily might have done, with a supply of biscuit. Typee He was a Bohemian, who, while resisting the worst vices of his class, shared its carelessness and improvidence to a degree that left little energy for ambitious work. Australian Writers Over-population, bad harvests, the maladjustment of international demand and supply, and individual folly, laziness, wastefulness, improvidence, and passion would apparently no longer have the same unfortunate consequences which they have now. British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals This success we affect to regard as an undeserved reward bestowed by Providence on improvidence. The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force They also resist very well the privations to which they are sometimes subjected by their own improvidence. My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) I am struck today, as undoubtedly all will be who read this letter with attention, by the mixture of truth and error, of foresight and improvidence therein contained. Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time Volume 1 To those thus emancipated, others, discharged from the army and navy, were afterward added, who, by their improvidence, were reduced to extreme distress. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject It encourages, or at least excuses, wastefulness, improvidence, profligacy, and drunkenness. British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals Especially do we invite the Legislature instantly to pass laws, entitling mothers to become their children's guardians, in all cases where, by habitual drunkenness, immorality, or improvidence, fathers are incompetent to the sacred trust. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I I refer to those regarding physiognomy, structure, and stature, the primitive mode of cultivating corn, the choice of food, and the improvidence shown in eating, with the consequence that deficiency follows upon excess. My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) The luxuriance of a tropical climate tends to improvidence and indolence. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles "But why sell it, my sad old improvidence?" said Bones. Bones in London They distinctly encourage improvidence and oppose, also "for scientific reasons," providence, thrift, and abstinence among the workers. British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals This is sometimes owing to indolence or improvidence; but perhaps oftener, to the circumstances in which a few families are placed, at a distance from any established or opulent settlement. A New Guide for Emigrants to the West Then, too, came the jubilee of the English sparrow, welcoming the appearance of mankind, whose waste and improvidence supply so easily his larder. Little Brothers of the Air They reveal a combination of blind improvidence, reckless expenditure and an unwillingness to shake off impoverishing customs. India's Problem, Krishna or Christ All the diminution of profitable labor which it occasions, through improvidence, idleness, dissipation, intemperance, sickness, insanity, and premature deaths, is to the community so much utterly lost. Select Temperance Tracts This arises from the intensity and inconstancy of their emotions, from their improvidence, and from the eccentricity of their social habits. The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory The want of a suitable number of muskets, and sufficient powder in the dangerous vicinity of the Chunchos, is characteristic of the improvidence of the inhabitants of Vitoc. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Now, observe, all these sources of variation in the power of the currency exist, wholly irrespective of the influences of vice, indolence, and improvidence. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing The South, colonized by Cavaliers, retains much of the Cavalier improvidence and careless elegance of manner; and Southerners, like the soil they till, are generous. How To Behave: A Pocket Manual Of Republican Etiquette, And Guide To Correct Personal Habits Embracing An Exposition Of The Principles Of Good Manners; Useful Hints On The Care Of The Person, Eating, Drinking, Exercise, Habits, Dress, Self-Culture, And Behavior At Home; The Etiquette Of Salutations, Introductions, Receptions, Visits, Dinners, Evening Parties, Conversation, Letters, Presents, Weddings, Funerals, The Street, The Church, Places Of Amusement, Traveling, Etc., With Illustrative Anecdotes, a Chapter on Love and Courtship, and Rules of Order for Debating Societies A crisis like his wife's critical illness created a demand for much extra expense, for which no provision had been made, not through carelessness and improvidence, but upon principle. George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God But, unfortunately, that improvidence which is so remarkable in their kindred tribes is also with them proof against the repeated lessons of bitter experience they are doomed to endure. Journal of the Third Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage Good sense and right feeling will here easily draw the line, abstaining from charities that have a real influence in encouraging improvidence or vice, yet making due allowance for the normal weaknesses of our nature. The Map of Life Conduct and Character Rather it gives one the impression that old traditions are all but dead and that it is mere improvidence and laisser-aller that allows them to exist. The Automobilist Abroad I tell you what, partner: Jack’s got all his father’s aristocratic notions, all his father’s pride and improvidence. As We Sweep Through The Deep But M. de Talleyrand is a very wise man! always far-seeing, he knows the improvidence, the prodigality, the ostentation of these new masters whom he is so ready to serve. The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days Daria had a prospect of several months before her before the return of Aphanassi, if ever he should return at all; and she gave herself up to her love with pleasing improvidence. Fifty-Two Stories For Girls Their poverty is a misfortune; their improvidence an act of faith; their superstition the last ray of poetic religion lingering in this world of scepticism and commonplace. Stray Studies from England and Italy There is, to be sure, an Alms House to catch all who, by misfortune or improvidence, fall through. Conflict of Northern and Southern Theories of Man and Society Great Speech, Delivered in New York City His improvidence is also to be ascribed to the same cause. Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland His generosity was equalled only by his improvidence, and both were surpassed by his good luck. Bert Lloyd's Boyhood A Story from Nova Scotia From improvidence they are often reduced for a considerable time to a state bordering on starvation. The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) What worries her most is the fatalism and improvidence of the poor. Stray Studies from England and Italy Alarmed at his own propensity for indulging the caprice of the moment, and mindful of the extent to which the Scottish Crown had been pauperized by royal improvidence, he had accepted a self-denying ordinance. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography Now that the great snow was gone, Miamis and Shawnees, Wyandots and Ottawas would be roaming the forest to make up for the lack of food caused by their customary improvidence. The Eyes of the Woods A story of the Ancient Wilderness Ignorance, poverty and disease, huddled in dens of wretchedness, where they multiply with reckless improvidence, sometimes fostered by mistaken charity. Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch The settlers, always looking to France to supply their needs and protect them against their own improvidence, were in the habit of butchering for food the livestock sent them for propagation. A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I France and England in North America The causes of poverty are accident, sickness, inability to secure work, laziness, improvidence, intemperance, ignorance, and shiftlessness. Practical Ethics Where the digger or mechanic does not thrive and save money, the fault is entirely due to his own improvidence. A Boy's Voyage Round the World With the courage of his recently acquired situation, Dennis proposed to indulge in a little improvidence. The Flaw in the Sapphire Or tell me, Pentuer," continued the minister, "and inquire: whence will the heir get his twenty talents to keep the promise which he made this day to the army with such improvidence? The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt Your system is, moreover, if we may be permitted the observation, a premium on improvidence; it is, to some extent, the result of improvidence. Mental Efficiency And Other Hints to Men and Women With the singular improvidence which distinguished him he had not provided for this exigency before leaving Crowheart. The Lady Doc That there is ingratitude or improvidence in not knowing one's workmen, one's servants, all those in short with whom one has indispensable social relations—this has never come into their minds. The Simple Life But it was not by the images which his ordinary stock in trade would naturally cause to arise that he was disturbed,—images though they were of folly, improvidence, and distress. Five Hundred Dollars First published in the "Century Magazine" It is bohemianism in the domestic circle, a life full of improvidence and surprises. Artists' Wives No doubt their difficulties were caused in part by their own improvidence, but they were increased by the prevailing scarcity of money. Union and Democracy Then the thrift of some and the improvidence of others set in motion the immutable laws of distribution. The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier The case is similar with regard to nearly all the alleged inferiorities of primitive man, his improvidence, unreliability, and the like. Human Traits and their Social Significance Our hungry party put the liberality of the Indians to the test, but it did not fail; as I believe it seldom does, in their improvidence of tomorrow. The Substance of a Journal During a Residence at the Red River Colony, British North America and Frequent Excursions Among the North-West American Indians, In the Years 1820, 1821, 1822, 1823. Their payment is, perhaps, the most striking evidence of the improvidence of Congress in dealing with antiquated claims against the government. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. There was an ingenuousness about the proceedings on the part of our Government that was startling in its Micawberism and improvidence. Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 At this time the Indians were suffering from the famine that their waste and improvidence had brought upon them; and perhaps Smith might have said something on the white man's side. Stories Of Ohio To give alms indiscriminately, in these circumstances, is both to waste means and propagate improvidence. The Parables of Our Lord The same improvidence is visible in many towns in France, and still more in Holland. Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 No provision is made for their payment; no measure of retrenchment and reform; but these accumulated difficulties are thrust upon the future, with the improvidence of a young spendthrift. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. The improvidence of the poor is a most distressing spectacle to all right-minded students of sociology. The Promised Land They would have thought it criminal improvidence to divide their fortune among several. The Man With The Broken Ear The death-rate of babies when mothers work in factories or shops with no provision for special rest is one testimony to the social improvidence of our 38present industrial use of older women. The Family and it's Members Mr. Edgehill saw a shirker in every suicide, national improvidence in a corpse with empty pockets, and had even been able to discover a declining war _morale_ in death by misadventure. The Shrieking Pit These unfortunate wives and children were an important scenic feature in our defence, and if the prisoner was unmarried Gottlieb had little difficulty in supplying the omission due to such improvidence. The Confessions of Artemas Quibble Of his improvidence there is much that could be told; his inherent good nature was never proof against imposition, and he gave away as freely as he earned. Story-Lives of Great Musicians On catching sight of the barricade many buccaneers flung away their corn cobs, with the merry improvidence of their kind, "with the sudden hopes they conceived of finding all things in abundance." On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. If my funds run out before the siege is over I shall have at least the pleasure to think that this has not been caused by improvidence. Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris And when the lawyers found that instead of a hundred thousand dollars the estate would yield a bare third of that sum she spoke openly of her husband's improvidence. The Cow Puncher But, as they have no season in the year wholly unproductive and for which they must make special provision, their improvidence is not followed by serious consequences. The Seminole Indians of Florida Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-84, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1887, pages 469-532 It is true that at the time I speak of Bessy's prospects fully entitled her to as opulent a match, and no one apparently foresaw how speedily they would be overcast by her father's improvidence. Strangers at Lisconnel They knew the improvidence of the race, and out of regard for them, instead of paying them in money, they allowed them to obtain goods in their names at the leading stores. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 Poverty springs from two causes—improvidence, a lack of the savoir-faire in the affairs of life, or overwhelming circumstances, which have broken the spirit of the man and made him sit down discouraged and despairing. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Thus incautiousness and incircumspection are included in "thoughtlessness"; lack of docility, memory, or reason is referable to "precipitation"; improvidence, lack of intelligence and of shrewdness, belong to "negligence" and "inconstancy." Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province But the improvidence of man does not disprove the providence of God. Levels of Living Essays on Everyday Ideals But the distinction is vital between an Imperial grant in relief of a visitation of nature and a grant in relief of financial disasters which may be the result of improvidence or extravagance. The Story of Newfoundland It seemed as if a nation had become ruined through improvidence, and was selling off. Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 3 of 3) He had tried to see his way clear toward buying one, but in spite of a certain improvidence, the whole nature of the man was intrinsically honest. The Butterfly House Of course, I need not say that there is great improvidence in those who can be fleeced as they are fleeced. Letters from Egypt If ever thoughtless people were punished for their reckless improvidence, the Indians and half-breeds of the Northwest Territory are now paying the penalty for the wasteful slaughter of the buffalo a few short years ago. The Extermination of the American Bison When the last tree shall have been destroyed there will be no man left to mourn the improvidence and thoughtlessness of the forest-destroying race to which he belonged. Arbor Day Leaves A Complete Programme For Arbor Day Observance, Including Readings, Recitations, Music, and General Information Her recklessness and improvidence had brought her to a pitiable condition; and in her latter days, after a career of splendor, caprice, and extravagance, she was obliged to subsist, it is said, by button-making. Great Singers, First Series Faustina Bordoni To Henrietta Sontag As an illustration of the improvidence of the Indians generally, the habits of the tribes along the Columbia River may be cited. Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 1-142 The crowds of respectably-dressed persons, clerks and shopkeepers and artizans, whom you see in the lottery offices the night before the drawing, prove the general existence not only of improvidence but of distress. Rome in 1860 No poverty, Murty, except what is purely accidental, or brought on by the improvidence of individuals. The Cross and the Shamrock Or, How To Defend The Faith. An Irish-American Catholic Tale Of Real Life, Descriptive Of The Temptations, Sufferings, Trials, And Triumphs Of The Children Of St. Patrick In The Great Republic Of Washington. A Book For The Entertainment And Special Instructions Of The Catholic Male And Female Servants Of The United States. To what do you attribute that improvidence on the part of the negro laborer? Black and White Land, Labor, and Politics in the South The improvidence and naughtiness of nature was called to book at every turn by the pleasures and pains divinely appended to things enjoined and to things forbidden, and ultimately by hell and by heaven. Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy Five Essays "All this savors too much of the future and is out of place in the happy improvidence of the present." The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Now the evil moral effects of such a system, its tendency to destroy independent self-respect and to promote improvidence are obvious enough, and I doubt whether even the positive gain to the poor is unmixed. Rome in 1860 This is a proof, of very great antiquity, and indisputable authority, of the care taken to prevent that sort of improvidence that hurts the general interest of a people. An Inquiry into the Permanent Causes of the Decline and Fall of Powerful and Wealthy Nations. Designed To Shew How The Prosperity Of The British Empire May Be Prolonged To this distress they are often reduced by their own improvidence, or by their unhappy situation. History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6. We cannot down the spirit of unrest and improvidence that holds possession of cooks and waitresses, and we needs must suffer it with such patience as we can. The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm Gorged to repletion, they slept, or wasted their substance with the improvidence of jungle-beasts. The Gun-Brand So Georgiana came legitimately by her beauty, her Whiggish politics, and her versatile vivacity of manner, as well as her improvidence and indiscretion. Some Old Time Beauties After Portraits by the English Masters, with Embellishment and Comment They possess, in an eminent degree, the qualities opposed to indolence, improvidence, and stupidity: the chiefs, above all, are distinguished for their good sense and intelligence. Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814 or the First American Settlement on the Pacific The necessity for breakfast sufficient to feed the hungry patients recalled to me the improvidence of my action in giving away so much bread the night before. Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War We know that improvidence, idleness, vagrancy, and crime, are the fruits of emancipation; not only in the United States, but also in the West Indies. A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin or, An Essay on Slavery Mostly she gives far more than is needed, but the improvidence or the apathy of man allows her gifts to run to waste. Ancient Egypt But the romance that has always surrounded the sailor's character, his real improvidence, and his supposedly unique simplicity have, in some slight degree, redounded to his advantage. American Merchant Ships and Sailors But what he did as a trophy of his superiority, we did by imbecile improvidence and for final ruin. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 1844 Even the working-man may have suppressed desires, you see, and lace curtains and victrolas may stand not only for the improvidence of the poor, but for the neurasthenic yearnings of the rich. One Man in His Time On the other hand, his poverty and improvidence constantly kept him, as Lady Mary put it, "raking in the lowest rinks of vice and misery." A History of English Prose Fiction They arrived at the village, their canoes laden with furs; but the characteristic improvidence of their race blinded them to future consequences. Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume I. The long table in the great kitchen soon gathered its company of waifs and strays,—creatures of improvidence and misfortune, and the irreparable victims of old age. A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches "Well," went on Lablache, with one of those deep whistling breaths which made him so like an ancient pug, "since you mention him, for want of a better specimen of improvidence, his name will do." The Story of the Foss River Ranch A Tale of the Northwest Their improvidence may be studied with advantage in the Bilston Market. Thrift For there are very many bad homes; those in which drunkenness, immorality, quarreling, selfishness, improvidence, brutality, and crime are taught by example. The Nervous Housewife And there are vast multitudes of people who are kept poor because they are the victims of their own improvidence. New Tabernacle Sermons It was with him that their parents 121 resided, and frequent were his appeals to Lincoln to extricate him from some pecuniary strait into which he had fallen through his confirmed thriftlessness and improvidence. The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him On his route to the ruins he witnessed melancholy evidence, in the condition of the surface and population, of the improvidence and noxiousness of Oriental despotism. International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 8, August 19, 1850 Surely it ought not to be so difficult to put an end to the Satanic influences of thriftlessness, drunkenness, and improvidence! Thrift The paternal purse was closed, and perhaps not too early, for the improvidence of the tea-blender and Alice's fecundity were a gulf whose depth no munificence could have plumbed. Leonora There is very little poverty and what there is is obviously the result of vice or improvidence. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1 We entrap the poor and the base and the wretched to their deaths, and then we cry out about their vicious tendencies, and their improvidence, and all the rest. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour "With the sum thus realized, I say, you propose to make good the losses which the bank has suffered by your improvidence?" Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 In cases such as these, improvidence is not only a great sin, and a feeder of sin, but it is a great cruelty. Thrift Secondly, it has been proved that a large percentage of the married women engaged in work factories are compelled so to work to support their families in consequence of the improvidence of their husbands. Rides on Railways The heroes set to with famished jaws, and after the coffee, each negligently lit up his priceless cigar with a bank-note, with the careless and open-handed improvidence so charming and so characteristic of their profession. In the Ranks of the C.I.V. Not many years ago the improvidence of the mill operatives was proverbial. The New South A Chronicle of Social and Industrial Evolution He has been censured for literary affectation and for personal improvidence, but only by those who do not understand the real elements of his character. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 64, February, 1863 Hence we say that the improvidence of the colliers, as of the iron-workers, is but a survival of the system of slavery in our political constitution. Thrift Individual responsibility in money-matters, aided by direct self-interest, is usually more efficient in imposing limits to improvidence than a general sense of duty on the part of official personages. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 53, March, 1862 A single great staple, easily produced by the reckless exhaustion of land, and varying widely in the annual value of crops, bred improvidence and speculation. George Washington, Volume I Nowhere else in the United States has the negro the same opportunity to become self-sustaining, but his improvidence keeps him poor. The New South A Chronicle of Social and Industrial Evolution Helen May had felt just a little resentful of the words downright improvidence. Starr, of the Desert Or, into the statistics of drunkenness and improvidence of all sorts; still Ignorance is predominant. Thrift Everybody kept the middle of the road, such is the improvidence of men; the country people grumble at the great expense of good roads, and then take the surest way to ruin them. Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile Being a Desultory Narrative of a Trip Through New England, New York, Canada, and the West, By "Chauffeur" For this, however, their own careless improvidence is primarily responsible. Tent Life in Siberia Yet there is occasion to deplore the improvidence that is fostered and that prevails, especially among those receiving their incomes in the form of wage or salary. Modern Economic Problems Economics Volume II It might almost be defined as downright improvidence. Starr, of the Desert Misery is the result of moral causes,—most commonly of individual vice and improvidence. Thrift The English, with their usual thoughtless improvidence, threw about their money so carelessly, that, soon after their arrival, every article of household consumption doubled and trebled in price, the remuneration for labour rising in proportion. Notes of an Overland Journey Through France and Egypt to Bombay The improvidence of early marriage rarely occurred in former days, and palpably, if our Kentish labourers lived entirely on oats and rye, it was not of necessity that they did so. Notes and Queries, Number 15, February 9, 1850 Our followers had, with the improvidence of Asiatics, brought but a scanty supply of food, and indeed we were all to blame for having trusted too much to the wild mountains for supplies. A Peep into Toorkisthhan The timber had not yet suffered by its owner's improvidence. Fenton's Quest Exceptions are frequently taken to calling the working classes "the lower orders;" but "the lower orders" they always will be, so long as they indicate such sensual indulgence and improvidence. Thrift But when by improvidence I have cast myself into necessities of using more upon myself or upon things in themselves of less importance, I have prospered much less than when I did otherwise. The Wonders of Prayer A Record of Well Authenticated and Wonderful Answers to Prayer And there was one conclusion he could not evade—namely, that while overcrowding, improvidence, extravagance, and vice explained the misery of some families, yet there were limits. The Nine-Tenths Two months after his return to England, his father died, somewhat impoverished by improvidence. Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett With Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes Capable of every devotion in a recognized crisis, we have yet carelessly allowed the habit of improvidence and waste of resources to find lodgment. The Fight for Conservation Thus the march of improvidence goes on over broken hearts, ruined hopes, and wasted ambitions. Thrift To the wanton destruction of private and public records by the British, together with the heedless improvidence of heads of families in the South, we owe this poverty of historical resource. The Life of Francis Marion Add, more than all, that the improvidence, the recklessness of the general multitude of poor members of this profession, I should say is a cruel, conventional fable. Speeches: Literary and Social And you know what their improvidence is, ma'am. Hard Times With their usual improvidence, they had not food enough to last a beleaguering army for a week. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 Increase of income has led only to increase of improvidence. Thrift She kept them secret from her father, whose improvidence was the cause of much of her misery. Vanity Fair They knew we had warned them scores and scores of times of the consequences of their wilful and reckless improvidence. Tracks of a Rolling Stone There is also another psychological condition which, undermining even the force of natural punishment, almost entirely destroys the power of social punishment; and that is improvidence. Criminal Sociology Twenty-five years of mistakes, miscalculations, improvidence, hundreds of millions thrown away, in the great work of canalizing the country, have proved it to the most incredulous. System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery They will gradually discern how ruthless an enemy is improvidence to working men; and how truly his friends are economy and forethought. Thrift It was not, then, wholly from ignorance or improvidence that he failed to establish permanent towns and to develop a material civilization. The Soul of the Indian The Arabs themselves being on foot would have suffered much more than I from the consequences of their improvidence. Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East This is especially the case with born criminals, whose main psychological characteristic is an excess of improvidence, combined with moral insensibility. Criminal Sociology What means, then, this eternal babble of the economists about the improvidence of laborers, their idleness, their want of dignity, their ignorance, their debauchery, their early marriages, etc.? System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery To turn men from intemperance, improvidence, and irreligion, and to induce them to seek their happiness in the pursuit of proper and noble objects, requires earnest purpose, honest self-devotion, and hard work. Thrift Her attitude seemed indeed to throw his own reasonableness into distincter relief: so that they might have stood for thrift and improvidence in an allegory of the affections. The Touchstone But even if the rent is not mended, perhaps the worst vice betrayed is improvidence. Walden The problem is rather this: Why were improvidence, passion, and debauchery in two men able to bring down in utter ruin one of the greatest monarchies the world has ever seen? The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 Yet there can be very little doubt to most people that abortion is a wasteful, injurious, and almost degrading method of dealing with the birth-rate, a feeble apology for recklessness and improvidence. Essays in War-Time Further Studies in the Task of Social Hygiene Yet Bacon himself did not follow his own advice, but was ruined by his improvidence. Thrift They must depend on themselves, unsupported, and pay the penalty of their own improvidence and unwisdom. The Woman's Bible In consequence of this extreme improvidence and inconsideration, the pecuniary help they receive frequently does little good, and fails of all the purposes which a pious charity intended. Female Scripture Biographies, Volume II There was soon an end of Henry's treasure, however; and no wonder, when, besides his own improvidence, the Pope was sucking out the revenues of the country. Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II The bad vine seasons often ruin the farmer, and much improvidence prevails. Holidays in Eastern France This, however, has been mainly because of their improvidence. Thrift This denoted the usual improvidence of sailors, and was thought nothing out of the common way. Afloat and Ashore A Sea Tale With the Valentins it was sheer improvidence and want of appetite. A Touch of Sun and Other Stories Their scanty stores, also, were soon exhausted, for their frugal habits, and their natural indolence and improvidence, seldom permitted them to have more provisions on hand than was requisite for present support. The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Volume II) To live what many esteem a life of charity, that is a life of indiscriminate giving, is often to pay a bounty upon idleness and improvidence, and to furnish the means of vicious indulgence. The Elements of Character The misery, arising from improvidence, which he so deeply deplored, still exists, and is even more widely spread. Thrift Famines come by a nation’s own fault—they are God’s plainly spoken opinion of what He thinks of breaking His laws of industry and thrift, by improvidence and bad farming. Sermons on National Subjects But this doctrine of referring everything to the will of Allah takes away all stimulus to independent thought; it makes for apathy, improvidence, and mental fossilification. Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia That quiet old man, and keen reckoner, began quickly to put the dilapidated Castlewood accounts in order, of which long neglect, poverty, and improvidence had hastened the ruin. The Virginians Intemperance and improvidence go hand in hand with each other, and hence arises a necessity for burial clubs for the disposal of the children and the maintenance of the parents. The slave trade, domestic and foreign Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished Much of the existing misery is caused by selfishness—by the greed to accumulate wealth on the one hand, and by improvidence on the other. Thrift His father, the Rev. Charles Goldsmith, with hereditary improvidence, married when very young and very poor, and starved along for several years on a small country curacy and the assistance of his wife's friends. Oliver Goldsmith A Biography She had even been accused by those judicious persons who are always ready with an estimate of their neighbours' motives, of having encouraged poor Denis's improvidence for the gratification of her own ambition. Sanctuary I don't call that Providence: it was his improvidence with our money, and he ought to be punished. Daniel Deronda With the improvidence of the true traveller I had consumed my stock of provisions ere reaching the town of Taverna after a march of nine hours or thereabouts. Old Calabria Many of his worst qualities also originate in the bad use of money,—such as greed, miserliness, injustice, extravagance, and improvidence. Thrift His heedless improvidence is eating up the pay of the booksellers in advance. Oliver Goldsmith A Biography When he sees others gratifying them, his self-love drives him often unconsciously into ascribing it to recklessness and improvidence. Reflections and Comments 1865-1895 The colonists found none among their number to fill Smith's place, and soon relapsed into the idleness and improvidence which he had so resolutely counteracted. The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775 Improvements were wanting, land lay idle for lack of sufficient labor, and that which was cultivated yielded a diminishing return on account of the ignorance and improvidence of those tilling it. A Century of Negro Migration The habit of improvidence was thus formed; and it still continues. Thrift As for Mozart's career we must feel that no amount of wealth would have availed against his improvidence and his extravagance in the small way in which fate permitted him to be extravagant. The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1 But it must also be remembered that the industrial conditions under which these people live, necessitate a hand-to-mouth existence, and themselves furnish an education in improvidence. Problems of Poverty In fact, it was very apparent, that by their indolence and improvidence these dissatisfied ones had brought upon themselves the chief of the evils which they suffered. Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe The assertions of a professed wit and hyperbolist are not to be taken for granted; yet it is difficult to say to what shifts improvidence may not be reduced. Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 2 But improvidence is unhappily the defect of the class. Thrift His improvidence in giving to beggars and in squandering his earnings on expensive rooms, garments, and dinners, however, kept him always in debt. Halleck's New English Literature If the state cared to resume its power of taxation, it must buy the grant back, and the citizens of New Jersey must pay for their improvidence. The Theory of Social Revolutions The improvidence of the poor had alone urged revolutionary multitudes to the conquest of truth, justice, and happiness. Fruitfulness The new policy soon brought prosperity in place of waste and improvidence. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 17 This habitual improvidence—though of course there are many admirable exceptions—is the real cause of the social degradation of the artizan. Thrift L. Marineo also states that the king, "with his usual improvidence," left no will. The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1 These were extremely important indications in a land of improvidence. The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake His parents, seeing in this match a renewal of their own former loving improvidence, had felt moved, and unwilling to drive the lad to despair. Fruitfulness The public expenditure showed a steady increase; the emperor and his advisers were incapable of checking the outlay, and extravagance, combined with improvidence, soon depleted the exchequer. China Misery and wealth—The uncivilized—The East End—Edward Denison—Thrift in Guernsey—Improvidence and misery—Social Degradation—Fatalism of improvidence—Self-taxation—Slowness of progress. Thrift And with his perception of this wall all that had been the romance of his existence, the casualness, the light-hearted improvidence, the miraculous open-handedness of life faded out. Tales of the Jazz Age And even his improvidence was not without its excusable side. Fielding He had conquered by his divine improvidence; the poor man had vanquished the wealthy. Fruitfulness Now, had the truth been really so, what moral would such a story exemplify beyond the vulgar one of pecuniary improvidence? Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 If a few blame the manufacturers, or think the land is too dear, the large majority blame the improvidence of the poor. The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland But the craving for some sort of vegetable diet is irresistible, and with true Inuit improvidence they indulge it, careless of consequences. Schwatka's Search Inmates were in many cases allowed to enter and leave the institution at will, a privilege which encouraged shiftlessness and improvidence. Problems in American Democracy Otherwise he would be guilty of criminal improvidence. Fruitfulness Above these was a prevailing inefficiency and improvidence, which very soon became conspicuous, and this was a surprise. The Duel Between France and Germany It is not to be supposed, however, that the countries adjacent to France have escaped the consequences of a like improvidence. The Earth as Modified by Human Action "I meant to say that improvidence is the prevailing fault of those whose income is small." Do and Dare — a Brave Boy's Fight for Fortune The woodman's very presence in their midst was a continual reproach, a sermon on improvidence and intemperance, which they could not avoid hearing by thrusting their fingers into their ears. Afoot in England With the improvidence usual with the gluttons, they had eaten their rations of grain, all their store of zebra and dried buffalo meat, and were now crying out that they were famished. How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley Inasmuch as the place was a playground where cares were forgotten, there was a wholly artificial atmosphere of gaiety and improvidence about it. The Winds of Chance He still had about $17,000 of his interest money in the banks, but he had a billion pangs in his heart—the interest on his improvidence. Brewster's Millions Charity was an Oriental nightmare; an endeavour to raise the week to the level of the strong; an incitement to improvidence. South Wind You talk like the people who make it their business to sneer at us—the improvidence of the working classes, and such d—d slander. Demos In his noble improvidence of the future, he considered his civil list as a sort of loan, made by the nation for the sake of its grandeur, to be returned in luxury, magnificence, and benefits. The Duchess of Berry and the Court of Charles X His unreliability in money matters, the improvidence of his large family, his peculiarities in grammar, his pride in his good manners, all these points are noticed in the journal and elsewhere. The Journal to Stella His improvidence had at last driven him to don the nautical garb; but by this time his frock—a light cotton one—had almost given out, and he had nothing to replace it. Omoo Against such incurable improvidence, and such little regard for strict equity in money dealings, nothing but the impersonality of a syndicate could stand. Balzac It is continued by the inadequacy of wages, and the improvidence engendered by a social system which arose out of injustice, and produced its own penalty. Landholding in England The favourite argument is, that it affords the men, or at least a certain class of them, protection against their own improvidence. Second Shetland Truck System Report A man so utterly beneath her; doubtless brought into the grade to which he had fallen by every kind of error, of improvidence, of folly—of probably worse than folly! Under Two Flags Not a friend of his but knows his improvidence. The Golden Slipper : and other problems for Violet Strange His troubles and burdens would seem to have been caused far more by mistakes of judgment and improvidence than by any stress of circumstance. Balzac The practical issue of such a condition was improvidence, originally almost an unconscious improvidence, for every debt incurred had been mentally paid off with a religious exactness from the treasures of expectation before mentioned. Desperate Remedies There may be some improvidence among them; there may be afflictions among them of various kinds. Second Shetland Truck System Report There arose the typical colonial troubles—sickness, dissensions, improvidence, quarrels with the aborigines. Pioneers of the Old South: a chronicle of English colonial beginnings But, for a premeditated crime, consider what singular improvidence the person showed who had determined on committing it; what folly and what weakness there is in the execution of it. The Paris Sketch Book Towards the end of the year 1789, there can be not doubt of this; and the parties now formed reveal their presumption, improvidence, incapacity, and obstinacy. The French Revolution - Volume 1 It was truly said of Sheridan—who, with all his improvidence, was generous, and never gave pain—that, "His wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Never carried a heart-stain away on its blade." Character The reason assigned for all this listless improvidence was “There are no women to grind the corn—all are dead.” A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864 Active, adroit, inventive, little scrupulous, he makes capital out of our indolence and our improvidence. Samuel Brohl and Company For under an outward show of levity, profusion, improvidence, and eccentric impudence, he was in truth one of the most mercenary and crafty of mankind. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 True, that with child-like improvidence, good times will often dissipate his grumbling, and make him forget all prudence and foresight. Mary Barton Thus with the genuine improvidence of savages, they destroy that fodder for want of which their cattle may perish. Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland With characteristic improvidence he had fallen to eating the corn while yet there was plenty more to be gathered. Secret of the Woods I bitterly repented our improvidence in not providing ourselves, as we easily might have done, with a supply of biscuits. Typee Such foolhardy security could scarcely be the effect of mere improvidence. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 This Fund lends no encouragement to idleness or improvidence, but it offers an opportunity to prudence in vigour and youth to make provision against the evening of life and its attendant infirmity. Chronicles of the Canongate Of this improvidence no other account can be given than that it probably began in times of tumult, and continued because it had begun. Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland But that may be the result of drunkenness, improvidence, or—" "My father's income was fifty times as great as that of Donovan Brown. An Unsocial Socialist Never did he permit an enterprise to fail by accident; never was he impelled by hunger or improvidence to fight a battle unprepared. A Book of Scoundrels Ashore was a riot of money, prodigious extravagance, mean, shabby appointments, sudden riches, great disappointment, revelry, improvidence and suicide. The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire Do we not find, especially in large cities, that the greatest hindrance to the amelioration of the poor is their improvidence in marriage?—a small fault truly, if not involving endless consequences. The Republic The lavish expenditure in which Russian nobles often indulge indicates too frequently not large fortune, but simply foolish ostentation and reckless improvidence. Russia A hat worn on the back of the head signifies improvidence, easiness, conceit, sensuality and extravagance; the farther back the more dangerous is the position of the wearer. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students This did not long escape the keen-eyed bourgeois, who was greatly disturbed at such improvidence, and cast about for some means to stop it. The Oregon Trail: sketches of prairie and Rocky-Mountain life These institutions may have been useful to the few who desired to improve their estates, but they certainly did not cure, and rather tended to foster, the inveterate improvidence of the many. Russia |
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