| 单词 | improvident |
| 例句 | To the English, Goldsmith appeared stereotypically Irish: easygoing, innocent and loquacious, but also impudent, feckless and improvident. ‘Brothers of the Quill’: How an 18th-century hack found his literary footing 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z She did quit her job to take care of him, but they were improvident and did not buy long-term care insurance. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: You’re wealthy, your brother’s ill, and help is … not on the way 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z “The arbitration clause is improvident because the arbitration process requires US$14,500 in up-front administrative fees,” the top court said. Canada's top court rules in favor of Uber driver in gig economy case 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z In one heat, a driver made an improvident move and three cars collided, one flipping on its side. Calling Danger at the Grandview Speedway 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z It opines at length about the benefits if “children of improvident parents starve to death.” The Tragedy of the Tragedy of the Commons 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z This reluctance is often attributed to a Teutonic belief that Southern Europeans, and Greeks in particular, are lazy and improvident. The Real Cost of the 2008 Financial Crisis 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Indeed, he presents himself throughout Black Boy as a rebel, at odds with both his ailing mother, his faithless, improvident father and tyrannical “Granny”. 100 best nonfiction books: No 36 – Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth by Richard Wright (1945) 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z Then again, Mr. Ryan is making a similarly improvident bet on Mr. Trump. It’s not worth it, Mr. Ryan 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z Some will see a simple morality play here, that these people have been improvident. Workers need more help making retirement cushion 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z On the other hand, if we make improvident choices, the bright horizon I’ve described will not materialize. Transcript of Mitt Romney’s Speech on Donald Trump 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Paris and Berlin, in particular, wanted to rescue their improvident financial institutions. Into The Economic Abyss: Foolish Europeans Give Irresponsible Greeks Third Bailout 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z Mr. Degnan said some of the commissioners had voiced strong objections to resigning, and he said that he, too, had changed his mind about the idea, calling it “improvident.” Addressing Dysfunction, Port Authority Plans to Install ‘Nonpolitical’ C.E.O. 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z It dramatizes the consequences of our improvident modern economy in the way George Orwell’s novel awakened people to the “Big Brother” mentality of Soviet communism. The moral issue of climate change He said finalizing their cases would therefore be "improvident before anticipated guidance is provided within the foreseeable future by the Supreme Court." U.S. judge delays sentencing for Tsarnaev friends over Supreme Court case 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z Woodlock said on Tuesday the statements may have been "improvident" but were admissible. Closing arguments set in trial of accused Boston bomber's friend 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z “A lethal combination of national recessions, improvident tax cuts and too much spending created a financial sinkhole that defied every effort to climb out.” Battles Loom in Many States Over What to Do With Budget Surpluses 2014-02-03T02:08:50Z Credit grew with local economies, but sometimes outpaced it in the hands of an improvident bank. The Dollar Will Never Fall to Bitcoin 2013-12-24T11:00:43Z The phenomenon in Europe is roughly parallel to that in the United States, countering the notion that Americans are far more improvident. Green Blog: The Conundrum of Food Waste 2013-01-25T17:09:45Z The nuns were wont to have recourse to other equally improvident expedients for obtaining money without regard to future embarrassment. Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z The business is p. 276not respectable; those engaged in it are men of the lowest class, ignorant, drunken, and improvident, living from hand to mouth, never saving a penny against a rainy day. The Cambrian Sketch-Book Tales, Scenes, and Legends of Wild Wales 2012-04-27T02:00:33.040Z There are perhaps as many well-to-do persons who are miserly because they cannot help it as there are improvident persons who are spendthrifts because they cannot longer prevent it. Farm Boys and Girls 2012-04-21T02:00:21.733Z Like the Irish too, they are wretchedly improvident. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z The truly necessitous are forgotten, and the improvident, the lazy, and the wasteful reap the largest share. One Day at a Time and Other Talks on Life and Religion 2012-03-31T02:00:20.873Z To financial incompetence and to the employment of improvident methods of raising money, the nuns occasionally added extravagance. Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z The absence45 of reflection makes him grossly improvident, and unfits him for pursuing any complicated scheme of war or policy. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z The improvident seamen had not only burned one boat, but even the boards under their sleeping-robes. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z The foresight of Prometheus resisted her charms; his improvident brother opened the dreaded casket. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Under this system well-to-do thrifty artisans and improvident paupers are all treated by one staff, controlled by one administration, and are located in immediate proximity to each other though in separate pavilions. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z Many had died, and thus year by year these few, scattered, improvident people decline, giving earnest that in a few years all will be gone. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z Indeed, it has become a subject of complaint, that access is so easy, and the position so agreeable, that the improvident and the indolent take undue advantage of its benefits. Norman's New Orleans and Environs Containing a Brief Historical Sketch of the Territory and State of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time 2012-02-13T03:00:18.260Z It was singular how improvident most of them were. A Life's Secret A Novel 2012-02-13T03:00:17.060Z It is true that this wholesome recovery is not yet reflected in the national finances, which are still disordered by extravagance, over-borrowing, improvident budgets, and now by the diminished receipts from customs. South America and the War 2012-02-10T03:00:17.163Z Simple humanity requires that the state should not be blind to the movement of emigration, nor abandon it to all the risks of improvident liberty. Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II 2012-01-25T03:00:34.150Z You know how careless and improvident Tom is, and yet how generous-hearted. The Story of Charles Strange Vol. 1 (of 3) A Novel 2012-01-22T03:00:26.330Z I was then summoned to her presence; and, full of the improvident rapture of childhood, I bounded gaily to her apartment. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z Not that she would have helped him, so improvident in conduct and mistaken in opinions, with a good heart. A Life's Secret A Novel 2012-02-13T03:00:17.060Z By others he is variously described as "wild, noisy, and reckless," or "windy, rattle-brained, unsteady, and improvident." Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 (of 2) The True Story Of A Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:35.370Z He was dirty, improvident, brutal; he was, as compared with a European, mentally and morally but an undeveloped man. Stories of the Badger State 2011-11-27T03:00:12.687Z In the settlement of county, the Virginians from Tidewater had brought with them their improvident methods of farming. Legends of Loudoun An account of the history and homes of a border county of Virginia's Northern Neck 2011-11-26T03:00:16.703Z My improvident lightness of heart forsook me; and though I often resolved to face the storm bravely, I resolved it with the tears in my eyes. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z That improvident selfish man had been within an ace of immense wealth. Diana Tempest, Volume I (of 3) 2011-11-12T03:00:36.223Z The vast forests of the United States and Canada cannot long resist the improvident habits of the backwoodsman and the increased demand for lumber. Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action 2011-11-11T03:00:34.027Z Hence it is that faith ever seems, in the judgment of nature, such a reckless, improvident, visionary thing. Notes on the Book of Genesis 2011-11-05T02:00:10.317Z Wherever a standard is raised, it is quickly surrounded by the idlers, the thriftless, and the improvident, who are willing, at least, to be supported if not munificently recompensed for the task of bearing arms. Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican Vol. 1 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time; With a View of the Ancient Aztec Empire and Civilization; A Historical Sketch of the Late War; And Notices of New Mexico and California 2011-11-02T02:00:11.380Z They are not so good-looking, and are said to be a very improvident race. Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. 2011-10-30T02:00:10.270Z One can at least sympathize with their reluctance to run what looks like a giant charity for improvident fellow Europeans. Economix Blog: Uwe E. Reinhardt: What Does 'Recapitalizing Banks' Actually Mean? 2011-10-28T10:00:47Z I have, indeed, been blind not to detect the villany that lay behind that satanic smile, and improvident to let myself be deluded by his pretended friendship. The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. I (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors 2011-10-25T02:00:28.357Z All of us monks are either reckoned faithless or improvident; the clerk is believed, the monk is not. The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond: A Picture of Monastic Life in the Days of Abbot Samson 2011-10-18T02:00:19.523Z He had been improvident and extravagant, like most of the jocks of that day, so that when the accident put him on the flat of his back he found himself broke. Taking Chances 2011-09-21T02:00:36.667Z And I assume that this is just what the conservatives fear," answered the journalist, "an excessively warm patriotism--and it must be admitted, often improvident and absurd in its manifestations--strikes them with terror. Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland 2011-09-16T02:00:19.893Z Bad industrial conditions and the fearfully high cost of living continue to depress the birth-rate of all save the most reckless and improvident elements, whose increase is a curse rather than a blessing. The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z In this condition the men were improvident to recklessness. Contemporary Socialism 2011-09-10T02:00:28.673Z You should have known my father; he was always cheerful even in his poorest moments; yet no one would have called him careless nor improvident. The Triumph of Jill 2011-08-31T02:01:25.060Z More improvident than his city fathers, this one lights up his lamp, of dark, rainy nights, whether the moon is in the almanac, or city fathers' brains. Hot corn: Life Scenes in New York Illustrated 2011-08-31T02:01:20.473Z The man is a gentleman, everybody knows, however idle and improvident a one. Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories 2011-08-25T02:00:30.323Z She said it would be “improvident and premature” to dismiss the F.D.I.C. from the lawsuit after refusing a similar request by JPMorgan. F.D.I.C. Must Face WaMu Suit, Judge Rules 2011-08-23T23:47:36Z Besides, even the improvident are saved from the worst by the communal organization. Contemporary Socialism 2011-09-10T02:00:28.673Z Second, Eurobonds would remove the pressure on improvident governments to put their public finances in order. Economics focus: An unpalatable solution 2011-08-18T09:24:31Z He was not so improvident as to pay cash for these options, however; instead, he gave ninety-day notes, writing across the face of each one: "Not negotiable until after maturity." Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford 2011-08-11T02:00:13.017Z 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 Bruges, where monarchs kissed the hand to merchants, now emptied of its former splendour, reminded me of the improvident steward in scripture, that could not dig, and to beg was ashamed. Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. I (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:11.383Z Then there is in France a larger proportion of the working class than in most countries, who are kept in constant poverty and discontent and commotion by their own improvident habits. Contemporary Socialism 2011-09-10T02:00:28.673Z The result is you will have more improvident marriages. Crying for the Light, Vol. 2 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago 2011-07-23T02:00:11.327Z She makes no complaint, utters no moan, is never visible in the streets; yet her lot is hard—harder than she can bear—harder than that of the improvident and thoughtless and vicious. Crying for the Light, Vol. 1 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago 2011-07-23T02:00:10.740Z Childish and improvident, witty and sentimental, often fond of the melodramatic, simple and yet shrewd, superstitious but brave beyond all praise, the native of Nordland is a type unlike every other Norwegian. Knut Hamsun 2011-07-18T02:00:21.927Z There were a few improvident, impoverished or really unfortunate families. Revisiting the Earth 2011-07-12T02:00:36.337Z A disposition for social enjoyment has led him from conviviality to habits of intemperance; and an improvident hospitality, to the ruin of his family’s fortune. A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire 2011-07-08T02:00:18.387Z A good head and heart operate as effectually as vice or folly could do to make them improvident. The Heiress; a comedy, in five acts 2011-07-02T02:00:12.813Z The preliminaries were speedily arranged, and as soon as a neat and sufficient wardrobe was ready for her use, her final separation from her improvident grandmother took place in the manner that has been related. The Widow Barnaby Vol. I (of 3) 2011-07-01T02:00:16.980Z The power of the provident over the improvident depends thus primarily on their relative numbers; secondarily, on the modes of agreement of the adverse parties with each other. Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy 2011-06-29T02:00:26.763Z She was improvident enough to let fall some words about the true state of her affections, which poor Norberg had to understand in a spiritual sense. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-22T02:00:23.137Z Coleridge was unpunctual, unbusiness-like, improvident, and dreamy, to the full extent to which poets are said proverbially to be. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 2011-06-14T02:00:20.590Z They were so poor and improvident that the men went in rags and the women in tatters; and only old Jonas's fine garden was free to them. The Bishop and the Boogerman 2011-06-12T02:00:07.497Z He disliked their manner of living and their improvident ways. If Any Man Sin 2011-06-12T02:00:05.887Z A devotion of service may provoke offence, 472 whether it be from zeal too improvident, from officiousness too busy, or from an ingenuousness too open. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z The Italian singer is rapacious, improvident, ungrateful, and wholly inconsiderate of his manager. The Mapleson Memoirs, vol II 1848-1888 2011-05-26T02:00:18.807Z After leaving the Senate, Senator Clark settled his family in New York, erecting a mansion at 962 Fifth Avenue, at 77th Street, that was considered improvident even in an excessive age. Huguette Clark, Recluse Heiress, Dies at 104 2011-05-24T20:24:08Z We will slyly pay the bills for improvident ones who have grown gray in the effort to make a decent funeral for dead horses. Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z But when a race of comparatively foolish and improvident little creatures have for ages enjoyed the credit of being proverbial patterns of wisdom, prudence, and forethought, I cannot refuse to assist in dispelling the delusion. Mirror of the Months 2011-05-21T02:00:10.227Z It is true some of them were of a roving disposition; probably a few were of the improvident class. Dr. John McLoughlin, the Father of Oregon 2011-05-20T02:00:38.647Z Mineral lands should be sold only to those who are prepared to develop them, and under conditions that will prevent the improvident waste of reckless exploitation. Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 2011-05-07T02:00:26.100Z Meanwhile there was one deep disappointment mixed with our improvident happiness. I Walked in Arden 2011-04-10T02:00:06.137Z Temperament, sensuous, indolent, improvident; fitful, passionate and cruel, though often affectionate and faithful; little sense of dignity, and slight self-consciousness, hence easy acceptance of yoke of slavery; musical. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z The industrious, the skillful and the strong, saw the products of their labor enjoyed by the indolent, the unskilled, and the improvident; and self-love rose against benevolence. History of American Socialisms 2011-03-28T02:00:20.967Z Most thieves are improvident; their-292- wants are therefore pressing—they must sell—the Receiver knows this and makes his own terms;—and he of course enjoys by far the largest share of the profit. A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their Prevention 2011-03-23T02:00:17.353Z We have been "improvident"—or somebody has—with the property of the people. Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 2011-05-07T02:00:26.100Z He was very improvident, whilst his parents exhausted their finances still more, by expensive living. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z That he was always profuse, sanguine and more or less improvident, is as probable as that he was always manly, generous and sympathetic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z When will all improvident marriages be equally illegal? How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage 2011-03-11T03:00:13.410Z He walked along the Nile, for he had no coin with which to hire a boat, and he pondered,— “‘How improvident are men inheriting a talent or two, or even ten talents! The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt 2011-03-08T03:00:42.177Z Positively so, because they are too improvident to lay up for the exigencies of sickness, of the seasons, or of old age. Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters 2011-03-06T03:00:21.020Z The red squirrel hoards like a miser, But, alas, the improvident gray, He's only a pauper of winter Who scampers the summer away. Gobolinks or Shadow Pictures for Young and Old 2011-03-03T03:00:57.927Z Unlike the Arab Bedouin, he is too indolent and improvident during seasons of plenty, to convert the produce of his flocks and herds into a store against the coming day of drought and famine. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z I was a man careful of my money, and your father was a man improvident with his. Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 1 of 3) 2011-02-17T03:00:17.787Z Though not destitute of good impulses Lancaster was hasty, improvident and obstinate; he was unfortunate in his choice of friends, for he allied himself to all his father’s unscrupulous dependents. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z Money is the great weapon in free, equal, and competitive society, which skill and capital employ in the war of the wits, to exploitate and oppress the poor, the improvident, and weak-minded. Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters 2011-03-06T03:00:21.020Z The velocities of circulation will be increased, and therefore also the price level increased by improvident habits; by the use of book credit; and by rapid transportation. Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted 2011-02-01T03:00:14.553Z There came a time, also, when, without notice, flour was issued for the second day's ration, and our improvident friends were fetched up with a round turn. Two Years on Trek Being Some Account of the Royal Sussex Regiment in South Africa 2011-01-26T03:00:28.560Z He is dutiful to his father, the improvident, though ambitious Charles Mari� de Buonaparte. Napoleon's Young Neighbor 2011-01-24T03:00:18.637Z Oh, I was an improvident youth, all right. The Land of Frozen Suns 2011-01-23T03:00:15.307Z Public and private charity is a fund created by the labor of the industrious poor, and too often bestowed on the idle or improvident. Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters 2011-03-06T03:00:21.020Z He was much more improvident in such respects than either of us, and he had to thank us for keeping his powder dry. Canoeing in the wilderness 2011-01-19T03:00:23.683Z The sailor is as improvident, and incapable of self-government as a child. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z This cry of the drones had partisans in every citizen with an empty pocket and a patch on his garments, for it means that the provident shall be robbed to satisfy the improvident. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z The next scene for the display of this reckless and improvident system was Afghanistan. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z If that woman had never lived, if we had never heard of her, I should not have been so improvident. Willing to Die 2010-12-20T17:12:00.040Z The distinction between the idle and improvident poor and the "deserving" goes back at least to the Elizabethan poor law. The spectre of laissez-faire stalks Britain 2010-06-20T16:00:00Z Yes, they were a jolly, childlike race of men and as improvident as an Indian for the requirements of tomorrow. Canadian Wilds Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. "My plans are already laid, and I wanted only your cooperation and assistance; for why, you know, should I be so improvident as to kill one king, until another is ready to take his place?" Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 That improvident act for limiting prices has done great injury, and in my sincere opinion, if not repealed, will ruin the State and introduce a civil war. Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams Thus nature conspires to produce a race indolent, improvident, and contented. Races and Immigrants in America Almost any promising bride may soon be made an ill-tempered wife, a discontented homekeeper and an indifferent mother by an improvident, extravagant, selfish and neglectful husband. What a Young Husband Ought to Know I admit that with the wasteful and improvident character of the Indians, the leader of the party must use due care and watchfulness over his outfit and see it is not wrongly used. Canadian Wilds Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. He was naturally improvident, and but for the neighbors they must have starved. The Home Life of Poe There was no doubt but that they were almost hopelessly improvident and lazy. Rodman the Keeper Southern Sketches What measures did they adopt to conciliate the subject peoples, and what to increase the prosperity of a vast region, naturally fertile, but impoverished by centuries of improvident government and of civil anarchy and war? The Life of Yakoob Beg Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar Still, sensitive, good-natured, improvident, Irish,—and a genius,—Goldsmith lived as happy a life as his disposition would allow. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 Perhaps it’s a saner distribution, for it’s the improvident and shiftless of the world who go to the money-lender.” The Missioner Advised by the bank manager to whom she confided something of the young couple's improvident tendencies, Victoria vested the money in a trust administered by an insurance company. A Bed of Roses This was the house to which Lucy Dormer was brought when Mr. Dosett had consented to share with Sir Thomas the burden left by the death of the improvident artist. Ayala's Angel The Indian was a wasteful, wretched, improvident consumer and spoiler of the means of subsistence and enjoyment for communities of civilized men. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 119, September, 1867 But Reynolds's painting idealizes and therefore best expresses the man, his twofold nature: on the one hand, self-depreciatory, generous, and improvident; on the other, aspiring, hungry for approval, laborious. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 In his improvident manner he had apparently squandered the money that had been contributed by Mrs. Brenane for his journey, and thus found himself in considerable difficulties. Lafcadio Hearn Other inducements, besides considerations of providence, 155 must be held out to the improvident. Lives of Celebrated Women Adelaide, the beauty in chief of the family, was gone; and now also her husband, the improvident artist, had followed his wife. Ayala's Angel If they continue idle and improvident, they must suffer the results of it. Political economy "How, Sir!—Do you expect the prudent to give up their substance to the idle and the improvident?" Flora Lyndsay or, Passages in an Eventful Life Vol. II. ‘Of all the improvident, hot-headed––’ she was beginning, when the change of expression in her brother’s face silenced her. The Youngest Girl in the School Most rash and improvident for them, and uncomfortable for us. The Daughters of a Genius Even the improvident black has discovered what the greenness of the grass shows, that, though water is not visible, it is not far off. Through South Africa His Visit to Rhodesia, the Transvaal, Cape Colony, Natal Much of the poverty and crime which now exist have been caused by mistaken charity in past times, which has caused a large part of the population to grow up careless, and improvident, and idle. Political economy The improvident, by this time, were utterly destitute, and were fed by the Captain, who made them pay what little they could towards their support. Flora Lyndsay or, Passages in an Eventful Life Vol. II. He was not brave to rashness, but was a merry, careless fellow, ever ready for anything, and reckless and improvident to a degree seldom equalled. The Ruined Cities of Zululand Why is a baker a most improvident person? The Handbook of Conundrums He was evidently one of the kind-hearted, improvident few, who can share a very little, and whose destiny it is to have only a very little to share. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume I Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative The English lower orders have always been thus improvident. Freehold Land Societies Their History, Present Position, and Claims Like most improvident young tramps, he took a mate. Tried for Her Life A Sequel to "Cruel As the Grave" To the improvident, however, to the lazy, to the genteel beggar, and to the thousand and one forms mendicity—supported by mendacity—takes to extort money, Allan was as adamant. Allan Ramsay Famous Scots Series However, the improvident traffic allowed between Newport's mariners and the natives, soon extremely enhanced the price of provisions, and the too protracted detention of his vessel made great inroads upon the public store. History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia This slightly improvident thrift recalls the jealous persons who will not suffer the British Museum to burn its rubbish, on the curious principle that what was never worth producing must always be worth preserving. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) The Freehold Land Movement has done wonders, it has removed the reproach cast upon the working man, that he is reckless and improvident. Freehold Land Societies Their History, Present Position, and Claims The plague, which periodically sweeps the north, would bring starvation, as well, to many a tepee of the improvident children of the snows. The Whelps of the Wolf You are not bound to aid charities you but half approve,—to assist people who have been improvident,—to associate with many who are uninteresting to you. Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day I saw that the people were improvident, less from choice than necessity, and I gave them banks. Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day The one, reckless, lavish, and improvident; the other, cautious, saving, and full of forethought. The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago But his habits were incurably generous, profuse, and improvident; and his sanguine Irish nature led him continually to mistake his expectations for his income. A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time Thus it comes about that the shrines are the only green spots among the hills which the improvident vandalism of the tribes has denuded of all their trees and shrubs. Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier A Record of Sixteen Years' Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches But the two Indian princes had been most improvident. Rulers of India: Lord Clive It is not likely, however, that Minola would have been quite so much delighted if she could have known all the feelings that her generous, improvident patronage had awakened in the poet's breast. The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. Young chicks who have lost their mothers by death, and whose fathers are of a shiftless and improvident nature, may be fed on kumiss, two parts; moxie, eight parts; distilled water, ten parts. A Guest at the Ludlow and Other Stories The place was crowded with visitors, for the season was at its height, and the improvident travellers having neglected to secure rooms, they had no right to expect any accommodation. The Lamplighter Three-fourths of them are straightway diverted from their arboreal intent through conversion into food by the provident squirrel and improvident hog. The Economic Functions of Vice I find it generally the other way round,—but they are notoriously improvident; inclined,—God bless them,—to live for the fleeting moment. My Brave and Gallant Gentleman A Romance of British Columbia In the same absurd and improvident spirit is the customary disinclination to ask for settlements on our daughters. Modern marriage and how to bear it Even if society may strive to preserve the inefficient and improvident, should it do so by hampering and restraining those wiser and more capable? Concerning Justice They were also extravagant and improvident and never made money, so the more they spent the more they had to demand from the people. The Crow's Nest Wherefore is it that in many cases authors are disorderly and improvident? simply because it is their nature to be so—because in any other path of life they would be equally disorderly and improvident. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 Love is so improvident that a parting a year away is no more feared than death, and a month’s end seems dim and distant. Stories by American Authors, Volume 7 This people are too improvident, even to sow their own seeds. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital He is improvident while in slavery, as is the Irishman in Ireland, because he has no opportunity to be anything else. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 Infants have various privileges, and various disabilities: but their very disabilities are privileges; in order to secure them from hurting themselves by their own improvident acts. Commentaries on the Laws of England Book the First It was part of the misfortune of this improvident princess that each new intrigue was of such a nature as to require a second intrigue to bolster it up. History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 All must be immediate with them; neither their thought nor their moral sense can carry far; they are equally improvident for the future and forgetful of the past. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 Hitherto improvident, it is to be hoped the South will now go to work upon her own resources. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital Hence arose those numerous acts of theft and depredation, that improvident thirst after present gain, that total disregard of future consequences by which many of the first inhabitants of the colony were disgraced and ruined. Australia, its history and present condition containing an account both of the bush and of the colonies, with their respective inhabitants The law was unjust, improvident, and altogether unsuited to the circumstances of the colony. George Brown The industrious mechanic and the studious minister suffer as surely from undue confinement as the improvident and indolent. A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) It is true they were improvident, and easily dazzled with the sight of ready money; but they were gentle-folk besides, and that in a way which curiously unfitted them to combat Yankee craft. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) Our improvident soldiers lose a great many muskets. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital "There," said she—"there is a providence for the improvident." Shirley The improvident Montagnais huddled in their birch tepees about the fort, raving for food, and perishing with disease; while of the twenty-eight Frenchmen there were only eight despairing survivors to greet the returning spring. Old Quebec The Fortress of New France Shiftless and improvident child of the tropics, his animal wants are readily satisfied by the fruits and fish which nature provides for him so bountifully. Carmen Ariza Drake being famished chose to take four meals in one,—improvident man! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 It is not generally known in how many countries of Europe direct legal obstacles are opposed to improvident marriages. Principles Of Political Economy Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical, and Explanatory Notes, and a Sketch of the History of Political Economy It was thither that the government should turn the thoughts of the homeless and the improvident. The Red River Colony A Chronicle of the Beginnings of Manitoba Farther west in the peninsula of the great lakes lived Indians of fixed habits and domicile, and otherwise further advanced towards civilisation than the improvident hunting tribes round about Quebec. Old Quebec The Fortress of New France Her father was a drunkard, idle, improvident, moody and brutal, and as a girl she had often protected her mother from his violence. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle He does not intend to spend many years in mining, or if he does, he has become thriftless and improvident. Hittel on Gold Mines and Mining Mr. Gladstone would fain give rich, industrious Ulster into the hands of lazy, improvident Connaught. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule Nor is this improvident attitude confined to the young, to the professional and the other non-business classes. Creating Capital Money-making as an aim in business Some of them had neglected to bring the amount ordered; others had been improvident and wasted their rations. Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman With Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War Their father seems to have been improvident, for they were said to be so poor that they thought of being actresses, and when they were presented they had to borrow clothes from Mrs. Woffington. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 But these lawless adventurers were as improvident as they were vicious and idle. King Philip Makers of History Perhaps I should explain," he gave an improvident laugh, "that Mr. Beardsley's role at the moment is—ah—a little beyond the ordinary! We're Friends, Now But there were always some improvident ones, who never had a supply ahead, but were always in straights for grub. 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 asks if his failure to marry is because he might wet a widow's eye, and then in successive Sonnets cries shame on his friend for being so improvident. Testimony of the Sonnets as to the Authorship of the Shakespearean Plays and Poems Did he not incarnate the great Jewish gospel of the improvident lilies? Ghetto Comedies If you remove the rewards accessible to the virtuous and peaceful, how are you to keep the penalties which restrain the vicious and improvident? Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2) Addresses to Ethical Societies Though brought up in this roving, improvident way, his better nature often revolted against it; 15 not, however, so strongly and decisively as now. The Cabin on the Prairie They were too wildly improvident for anything of the kind, and if they had any virtue at all it was scorn of the vice of stinginess. A Boy's Town Outside assistance alone will little benefit wasteful and improvident men who refuse to help themselves. British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals Wasteful, improvident, and short-sighted, they can never do any thing without the aid of more sagacious and economical heads to keep them within the bounds of reason. The Land of Thor If we are a little vain, and very fond of gaiety; and if we are improvident, we are not idle; and, with all our street fighting, we are not a discontented race. A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France Mrs. Jarvis might arrive any day, ready to repeat the glorious offer she had already made to that improvident child. 'Lizbeth of the Dale When improvident violence fails, men gladly shelter themselves under pusillanimous subtlety. Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time Volume 1 For though the negro is naturally lazy, and too improvident to work for himself, he will often labor for a master with a right good will, and with a loyal devotion to his interests. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject If the details be many, and if each be long, they would be more than the mind could carry without great effort; and instead of economy of attention, there is improvident waste. English: Composition and Literature It naturally results that the mechanics of Berlin, unlike those of the smaller towns of Germany, “are married and given in marriage,” although the practice is regarded even there as indiscreet and improvident. A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France It is the old jealousy of a clever and unscrupulous self-made man towards an improvident seigneur and his somewhat robustious son. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century While one was open, improvident, and rash in his hostility, the other was in an equal degree reserved, calculating, and prudent even in his violence, although in real character bold and determined. Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time Volume 1 We can conceive that we are by nature idle, improvident, and, without a protector and friend to guide and control us, utterly unable to take care of ourselves. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject As soon as his money is gone, and he needs or wants more, the improvident soldier turns to some comrade who saves and lends his money. Uncle Sam's Boys as Sergeants or, Handling Their First Real Commands Whatever temporary relief it afforded to indigent and improvident debtors, was far outweighed by the blow given to credit generally, and by the indignation excited among creditors. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Notwithstanding his uncertain supplies of food, he is recklessly improvident, and indifferent to all the lessons of experience. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles This union-assisted emigration affords the improvident labourer a good opportunity of transporting himself to a distant county, and leaving deeply in debt with the tradesmen with whom he has long dealt. The Toilers of the Field And if they will not earn them, choosing to remain idle, improvident, or nuisances to society, then they should be placed under a government of force, and compelled to earn them. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject The brethren were accused of having squandered its belongings, of having granted improvident leases, of having even sold the holy vessels of their Chapel. St. John's College, Cambridge One object of these is to train the poor and improvident members of the community, especially the socially submerged classes, to habits of thrift, economy and independence. India's Problem, Krishna or Christ They were homeless, penniless, ignorant, improvident—unprepared in every way for the dangers as well as the duties of freedom. From Slave to College President Being the Life Story of Booker T. Washington It is not low wages, then, which causes improvident habits. The Toilers of the Field After harvest, with its high wages and cheapness of provision, the laborer frequently became wasteful and improvident. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 The power of the provident over the improvident depends thus, primarily, on their relative numbers; secondarily, on the modes of agreement of the adverse parties with each other. 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 In 1823, however, these resources had all but disappeared, through the wasteful practices of improvident whalers. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century The Land Act of 1881 was an arbitrary attempt to remedy the misfortunes of an improvident agricultural interest by legislative interference with contract. The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 As the days wore on, as famine came poking his skeleton form into the igloos of the improvident natives, the condition became truly serious. Panther Eye Usually very early marriages are improvident marriages, made with no sufficient provision for the children, and often they are immature marriages, bringing with them grave physical evils. The Map of Life Conduct and Character He was not an improvident man, but in his lonely existence he had no sense of future necessities, and the weakest point in his judgment was his undiscriminating generosity. Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 The people seem just as kind and friendly, and improvident, and idle, and happy-go-lucky as my friends at home. Vixen, Volume II. At first they had occasionally secured beans and squashes from the Indians, but the improvident savages soon exhausted their supplies and were themselves dependent on corn and game. Far Past the Frontier Hugo, Abbot, old, feeble and improvident, 73; his death, 78; difficulties with Monk Samson, 90. Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Moralists have chiefly dilated on the dangers of deferred marriages; economists on the evils of improvident marriages. The Map of Life Conduct and Character He began to think that he had been very improvident. In A New World or, Among The Gold Fields Of Australia An improvident man, as the world uses the term, he undoubtedly had been, but this arose from a defect of character. Grey Town An Australian Story He was not without success in the circus which he subsequently joined, but he was improvident. Marge Askinforit But the general was so improvident, and what could I do?” As We Sweep Through The Deep The seamen, improvident by habit, first felt the blow. Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 1 “Ah-ha, Miss Helen!” returned Mercy, shaking her finger, “you are the improvident grasshopper—no less.” Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands He smiled cynically, as though he were two separate persons, one of whom was cool and calculating, while the other was improvident and scape-grace. The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel This envelope contains her letters and those of her husband, written after his fatal seizure to Mrs. Calvert, describing everything connected with their young and, as it proved, improvident lives. Dorothy's Travels The Bishop threw open his house to them all, good and bad, improvident and thrifty, lazy and industrious, drunken and sober; he made no distinctions in that bad hour. The Little Manx Nation - 1891 He had many faults; he was vain, improvident almost beyond belief, certainly dissipated throughout a part of his life. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Al, having received payment and displayed the Jiggers, left for the back of the store to that secluded nook which had heard a hundred explanations and supplications from the improvident and hungry. Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World I have it, Come, we are dull, I think that the good fellows, Our predecessors in this place, were not So foolish, and improvident husbands, but 'Twill yield us meat and wine. The Little French Lawyer A Comedy I was at first a little surprised to find the natives of the North so slow, indolent and improvident. Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland We seem to be quite uninfluenced by Hopes or Fears, the two great ruling Passions of the Soul; and as merry and improvident, as so many Grass-hoppers. A Dialogue Between Dean Swift and Tho. Prior, Esq. In the Isles of St. Patrick's Church, Dublin, On that Memorable Day, October 9th, 1753 And if, as the lecturer observes in a note, the painter is made to waste expression on inferior actors at the expense of a principal one, he is an improvident spendthrift, not a wise economist. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 The Sailors' Home as an institution is not over-popular with seamen, especially with the more improvident of them. A Tramp's Notebook His Bill of 1797 for the relief of the poor and his Land Tax Commutation Act of 1798 are examples of improvident legislation. William Pitt and the Great War The valley of the Nile is one example among many of what Irrigation, especially from rivers at their highest stage, will do for the soil, in defiance of the most ignorant, improvident and unskillful cultivation. Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. Whatever its defects may be, instead of the head-hunters and the idol-worshipers, the Filipino who has come within the influence of Spanish priests, though often lavish and improvident, is neat, polite, and sociable. The Great White Tribe in Filipinia Somers was lazy, improvident and a tippler, and after a short sojourn in America Mrs. Somers found herself a young and blooming widow, with one child, a girl, to provide for. Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures. Mr. Washington was constantly drumming it into the178 consciousness of the Negro farmer that as long as he remained ignorant and improvident he was sure to be exploited and imposed upon. Booker T. Washington Builder of a Civilization By this improvident lenity the Allies enabled the regicides to hurl fully 25,000 trained troops against the royalists of the West and deal them terrible blows. William Pitt and the Great War That they fare miserably, their scanty rags and pinched faces sufficiently attest; that they are indolent and improvident I can very well believe: for when were uneducated, unskilled, hopeless vassals anything else? Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. Mr. Andrew Stuart, a man of brilliant attainments, was busily engaged in the exposure of the enormous abuses that had prevailed in the improvident and prodigal grants of the Crown lands. The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 For Lord Reggie, whatever were his faults, always conveyed the impression of being entirely thoughtless and improvident about worldly affairs. The Green Carnation The Negroes were with few exceptions shiftless and improvident plantation laborers and renters. Booker T. Washington Builder of a Civilization “I believe, sir,” observed I, “that you will acknowledge, that in the heat and impetuosity of youth, we often rush into hasty and improvident connections.” Japhet in Search of a Father That improvident young man is out of money. Floyd Grandon's Honor The improvident man is crushed by them; for they find him without reserved force to meet them. Practical Ethics On the arrival of Bligh, he found the improvident settlers, discontented and poor, completely in the hands of the martial dealers. The History of Tasmania, Volume I In the world's estimation nothing could be more improvident or more improper than her conduct; and I fear that few of us would have the heart to commend one who should go and do likewise. Christian Devotedness His father is said to have had little ability, and to have been careless and improvident. American Men of Mind Poor and improvident, poverty had no pangs for him. Fables in Rhyme for Little Folks From the French of La Fontaine It remains idle and prodigal, while the peasant proprietors, burdened by the traditions of many centuries, are likewise improvident and ignorant. The New World of Islam Captain Hardy was known to everybody as a generous, warm-hearted, and harmless man; but he was thought to be equally improvident. Cast Away in the Cold An Old Man's Story of a Young Man's Adventures, as Related by Captain John Hardy, Mariner She had a hope that Ben's sturdy common sense would convince him after a while that Delia would make a poor, improvident wife. A Little Girl of Long Ago "He walked along the Nile, for he had no coin with which to hire a boat, and he pondered, "'How improvident are men inheriting a talent or two, or even ten talents! The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt He was industrious but improvident; he made money and he lost it. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen There is no more natural, truly affecting passage than his display of fretfulness when he got some inkling that his second daughter was about to make a rather improvident marriage with young Snodgrass. Pickwickian Studies And such accidents, as they are mildly termed by the improvident builders, often occur by the failure of drains imperfectly laid. Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles While the improvident did, indeed, wonder what they had done with their summer wages, the thrifty contemplated their piles of wood and their winter vegetables with a strong feeling of satisfaction. The Fighting Shepherdess It’s this way, Gussy: most people are too improvident and unimaginative to see in advance the advantages of ticklers. The Creature from Cleveland Depths The industrious, the skilful and the strong saw the product of their labor enjoyed by the indolent, the unskilled and the improvident; and self-love rose against benevolence. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen But in the accumulation of property, and in all the essentials of industry, they were indolent and improvident, rearing only the bare necessaries of life, and living from generation to generation without change or improvement.” Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States Who says this is improvident jealousy? my wife hath sent to him; the hour 198 260 is fixed; the match is made. The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] With the credit functions entirely in the hands of the state, the improvident man would be able to obtain credit upon the same securities as from a private creditor, without extortion. Socialism A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles Love is so improvident that a parting a year away is no more feared than death, and a month's end seems dim and distant. Lost 1898 Our improvident spendthrift is now lodged in that dreary receptacle of human misery,—a prison. The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency He was a singular character, as improvident as Lorado but in a far different way. A Daughter of the Middle Border They are unstable, improvident, easily discouraged, easily led astray. Impressions of South Africa Society would further secure itself against the weakness and failure of the improvident by insuring all its members against sickness, accident, and old age. Socialism A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles He is shiftless and improvident because so long trained to live dependent upon a master. Sparkling Gems of Race Knowledge Worth Reading A compendium of valuable information and wise suggestions that will inspire noble effort at the hands of every race-loving man, woman, and child. These men were always improvident and never seemed to think ahead. Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History He found these people full of hope, light-hearted, generous, intelligent, and generally improvident. The Lure of the Mask Formalism, on the other hand, signifies the improvident exaggeration of ulterior motives. The Moral Economy The railroad companies have, for several years, competed with each other in a very improvident and reckless way, and are now, and have been for some time, carrying freight for less than cost. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. The Banias have thus ousted numbers of improvident proprietors of the cultivating castes, and many of them have become large landlords. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II The improvident might suffer a little; but when the first shock was past, would not a strong impulse be given to industry? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 Now indeed it would be too late to sell it, but a man of Colonel Brandon's sense!—I wonder he should be so improvident in a point of such common, such natural, concern!—Well, Sense and Sensibility When Prince Bladud entered upon what he really believed would be his last journey, he naturally encountered very different experiences, being neither so ignorant, so helpless, nor so improvident as his helpless follower. The Hot Swamp In such circumstances it almost invariably follows that men are improvident. The Lifeboat The place was the last refuge of the destitute; the social sink into which all that is improvident, foolish, reckless, thriftless, or criminal finally descends. Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure Yet, although animals are absolutely essential to their existence, they pursue and slay them with improvident recklessness, sometimes killing hundreds of them merely for the sake of the sport, the tongues, and the marrow-bones. The Dog Crusoe and his Master The improvident among them drank up the precious water too fast, and towards evening began to sigh for relief, and to regard with longing eyes the supplies of their more self-denying companions. Digging for Gold Adventures in California In this respect they are superior to Indians, who are notoriously improvident and regardless of the morrow. Ungava But this hunt is not always a success, and when it is a partial failure the gay, improvident, harum-scarum half-breeds have a sad time of it. The Red Man's Revenge A Tale of The Red River Flood Rightly do you separate impurity and pleasure, which indeed soon fly asunder when the improvident would unite them. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection He tends to be dirty, lazy, and improvident, as is to be expected, when left to himself. Society Its Origin and Development As to provisions, the whites are not like the improvident red-skins, who gorge themselves with food one day and starve for many afterwards. The Trapper's Son Then I am sorry to say they are very improvident, and eat to repletion when they have a good supply, seldom thinking of saving for the future. Peter the Whaler Such was the case at the time of which we write, and the improvident habits of those people in times of superabundance began to tell. The Red Man's Revenge A Tale of The Red River Flood That you may not think ill of me on that account, I may say that we thus had an opportunity of being of considerable service to many of these improvident gentlemen. The Log House by the Lake A Tale of Canada Starvation was one of the horrors which often threatened the newcomers in the wilderness, as it had often beset its improvident red children. Stories Of Ohio “Give us,” said the five improvident maidens, “give us of your oil, for our lamps are gone out.” The Parables of Our Lord I’m so improvident that I’m afraid I’d marry you on nothing. The Fortunes of the Farrells Sometimes the fall hunt failed, in which case starvation stared the improvident among them in the face, and suffering, more or less severe, was the lot of all. The Red Man's Revenge A Tale of The Red River Flood He loves idleness, he has little conception of right and wrong, and he is improvident to the last degree of childishness. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 He was a master-printer in his time, an able fellow, but addicted to drink and improvident. Brother Copas As I before observed, my connection, especially lies among the improvident—among those who will be ruined—who are being ruined—and who have been ruined. The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Another class is composed of helpless infants, with or without improvident mothers. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 Foreign loans were precarious and improvident; the market rate of interest was eight per cent. Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII The supply of slaves is kept up by kidnapping, by warfare upon weak tribes, by the purchase of children from improvident parents, and by forfeiture of freedom through crime. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 Thanks to the talents and activity of this female steward, the gentle and improvident widow had nothing to do but to fondle her child. The Man With The Broken Ear There are many rich people up North, and, though the winters are long, no one suffers except the improvident. A Little Girl in Old Detroit They were poor, shiftless, improvident, ignorant, and, worse than all, apparently contented with their lot. The Kentucky Ranger But in resumption the suffering falls where it belongs, on the careless, the improvident, and the over-trader. Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII Nor should this spirit be condemned, for fortune in the hands of the right men is a blessing to the world and particularly to those who are more improvident. How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success I read part of it to father, the part which says that "the Filipinos are a worthless, shiftless, lazy people; improvident, untrustworthy and immoral!" Terry A Tale of the Hill People My Dad was a young, happy-go-lucky Irish lad, a hard worker, a free liver, and surely improvident. David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story Was ever such an improvident, self-willed creature as this boy, Cupid? Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems I learned that the commissioner was engaged through the agency of Ward in making a contract with a Connecticut firm that was in my opinion at once improvident and irregular. Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 2 Try and reform an habitually indolent, or improvident, or drunken person, and in a large majority of cases you will fail. How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success By the end of the first week the novelty has passed, and the money of some of the improvident families is running low. Captains of Industry or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money Then as the sober days of manhood came, and Landy witnessed the finish of the improvident and foolish, he began to save and skimp. David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story There was no extravagant or improvident display on the occasion. Little Abe Or, The Bishop of Berry Brow Whatever rebuke you would address to the improvident master of an ill-managed patrimony, precisely15 that rebuke we should address to ourselves, so far as we leave our population in idleness and our country in disorder. A Joy For Ever (And Its Price in the Market) At other times her affectionate gayety would give evidence as trustworthy of a fearless and improvident satisfaction. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 In spite of court patronage Holbein did not die a rich man, and there is an impression that he was recklessly improvident in his habits. The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art But as things are, it is agreed that we are to act like blind automata, as improvident and irresponsible as the lower fishes, until the actual birth of the future. Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles Having nothing but his pay, all the miseries of an improvident marriage fell upon the young couple. The Rector of St. Mark's The officers of the Lodging House use their influence to induce the boys, who are the most notoriously improvident creatures in the city, to save their earnings. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City It has been the practice to divorce the improvident mother from her dependent children. The Eugenic Marriage, Volume I. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies Idleness, vice, intemperance, improvident marriage, play their part. No Refuge but in Truth Strong and changing emotions, an improvident character and a tendency to immoral conduct are not unallied," he explains; "They are all rooted in uncontrolled impulse. Applied Eugenics The improvident expenditure of the royal patrimony, the granting the crown land or pensions to unworthy persons, is a frequent ground of complaint. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 I declare I don't think I ever saw a young woman so improvident as you are. Can You Forgive Her? His parents died when he was young, leaving to him a very considerable estate, which fortunately some relative administered for him, until, owing to this supervisor's death, it lapsed into the poet's improvident hands. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 I have tried to redress some wrongs, and have been able to relieve much distress among the improvident natives. Under the Great Bear Or do you wish to prepare them for the revocation of these improvident concessions? Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell The Le Poers were distinguished for being improvident, daring and reckless. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. If the man be improvident, it only helps the evil for a moment, and the want soon returns: what the man needs is instruction and care from those better versed in the art of living. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Then their homes—no, their houses, partly because of circumstances beyond their control and partly on account of their improvident natures, are little more than shelters or huts. Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro Conversely, the State may revoke an improvident grant of the public petitionary without recourse to the power of eminent domain, such a grant being inherently beyond the power of the State to make. The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 The future of the colony will be placed entirely in the hands of the contractor by the railway contract, which appears highly improvident. The Story of Newfoundland This improvident grant, which excited the indignation of the people of England, then deeply interested in the fur trade and fisheries, soon engaged the attention, and received the censure of parliament. The Life of George Washington, Vol. 1 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States A difficult part had been assigned to him; by much too difficult for one young, improvident, and inexperienced as he was. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 He becomes as a matter of course improvident and reckless, content with the gratification, so far as may be, of his merely animal appetites; indolent, for why should he be otherwise? Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro We may suppose, however, that he was an improvident man, for during his life he held several offices, and was at one time steward of Ludlow Castle. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour It is not reasonably to be expected that a public rapacious and improvident should be served by any of its subordinates with disinterestedness or foresight. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 08 (of 12) Mason liked Dixon for his ready spirits, almost improvident courage, speed with details, and worldly bearing. Tales of the Chesapeake Such people are eccentric, and often so foolishly improvident. The Old Flute-Player A Romance of To-day It is a notorious fact that, as a general rule, wherever this system exists, the slave is indolent, deceptive, dishonest, improvident, not to be trusted away from the eyes of honest people. Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro Before this, she had always been improvident, careless of her earnings, and from a disposition to change often out of place. Mrs Whittelsey's Magazine for Mothers and Daughters Volume 3 I have known many journalists; they were ever improvident. Arms and the Woman By reason of this custom, the poor hunter was virtually placed upon equality with the expert one, the lazy with the industrious, the improvident with the more provident. 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 This shows that the old hunters knew how to enjoy the passing hour in their improvident way, like the equally reckless Bushmen, who have left similar Golgothas behind them in South Africa. Anthropology The greater part of the houses in the town are in ruins, and Seobuksh has the reputation of being a reckless and improvident landholder. A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II The prices are reasonable, the food substantial and the atmosphere comfortable, so it is a real haven of good cheer to improvident Villagers. Greenwich Village Let me tell you why a newspaper man is improvident. Arms and the Woman The estates have all been heavily mortgaged to supply the wants of the passing hour, while no provision has been made for the future by their improvident possessor. Mark Hurdlestone Or, The Two Brothers In the purchase and in the preparation of food—the chief item of expense in the workingman's family and that wherein economic habits count for most—men and women are alike improvident. Black and White Land, Labor, and Politics in the South The wife of a very poor and improvident Irish peer, who had died early, leaving her badly provided for, her days had been one long scramble to make both ends meet and avoid creditors. Elster's Folly They, as well as we, must be blind, if they do not see this, and we must be very improvident if we do not begin to make arrangements on that hypothesis. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 They are careless and improvident of the future, because their wants are few, for though poor they are not necessitous; nature supplying, with extraordinary facility, whatever she has made requisite for their existence. The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants The poorer classes of society, are proverbially improvident—and yours, in sickness, and in old age, are often victims of want and suffering. Aunt Phillis's Cabin Or, Southern Life As It Is Q. Under these favorable circumstances which surround the laborer on the plantation one would think he ought to accumulate; but I understand you that as a rule he is rather improvident and fails to accumulate. Black and White Land, Labor, and Politics in the South Again try to fancy the shy, eccentric, improvident genius of "Ulalume," "The Bells," and "The Fall of the House of Usher" at ease in a company that, while delightful, was all propriety and solid intellectuality. Fifth Avenue A man's life does not develop rightly without it, and what is called an 'improvident marriage' often appears to me a noble, righteous, and prudent act. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II "I fear thou art indeed improvident," she continued, "if thou leavest thy future to others." The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt The latter are ignorant, improvident, and in some matters, such as the marriage ceremonies of their families, inordinately extravagant. Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief The old lady died, and before the ground was fairly settled around her the improvident son accepted a cash offer of $75 per acre for his homestead, and the farm was added to mine. The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm Both were throughout life lacking in executive ability; both were financially improvident. Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel translated and annotated by Emilie Michaelis ... and H. Keatley Moore. This plan, of course, enables the young to begin life far better provided with muscles and fins than the tiny little fry which come out of the eggs of the improvident species. Science in Arcady Then all the world is improvident, since it belongeth to others to shape every man's future. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt The improvident marriage of one man becomes a tax upon the orderly and regular marriage of all the rest. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) No one was allowed to sell liquor on the property owned by the Gordons, but outside of this limit was a fringe of low saloons which did a thriving business off the improvident miners. The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm They have been exceedingly improvident and have had no idea of laying up any thing for the future. The Nest in the Honeysuckles, and other Stories Twenty gentlemen will sail with us; mostly improvident younger sons. The Grey Cloak He was merely a self-centered, impecunious, improvident Irishman, indifferently skillful, whose vanity and self-indulgence had driven his son off into a vague green world, God alone knew where. Kenny The capital given him by his father had been so tied up by the donor that nothing but the interest could be touched by the improvident recipient. The Lost Lady of Lone "I believe, sir," observed I, "that you will acknowledge, that in the heat and impetuosity of youth, we often rush into hasty and improvident connections." Japhet, in Search of a Father I have considered the pension list of the Republic a roll of honor, bearing names inscribed by national gratitude, and not by improvident and indiscriminate almsgiving. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 3: Grover Cleveland, First Term The Peace Conference held, however, that Reparation proper must take precedence of the adjustment of improvident banking transactions effected at an excessive rate of exchange. The Economic Consequences of the Peace However, now that you've brought the thing into camp, it would be improvident not to eat it. Kenny In the times now upon us a many folk are bound to go to the wall; and the improvident will go first, as is only right. Nicky-Nan, Reservist A corrupt and improvident loan, like everything else corrupt or prodigal, cannot be too much condemned; but there is a short-sighted parsimony still more fatal than an unforeseeing expense. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) When slaves are liberated in the South they immediately become stupid, indolent and improvident, though they were previous to their liberation, industrious and economical. A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin or, An Essay on Slavery Had you no way of turning the revenue to account, but through the improvident resource of a spendthrift sale? The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) Jan Verner, though the most unselfish, perhaps it may be said the most improvident of mortals, with regard to himself, had a considerable amount of forethought for the rest of the world. Verner's Pride Millions more expended in the same improvident manner as heretofore, will not effect this great object; and with half the expence already incurred a politic government would have already accomplished it. Statistical, Historical and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales and its Dependent Settlements in Van Diemen's Land With a Particular Enumeration of the Advantages Which These Colonies Offer for Emigration, and Their Superiority in Many Respects Over Those Possessed by the United States of America They who are in possession of all they wish are languid and improvident. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) The family in the farming community often has meager social life and lack of proper recreations; the city-dweller is made restless and improvident by an excess of opportunities for certain sorts of amusement. Vocational Guidance for Girls It was a secret marriage and, except in the minds of a few good judges, an improvident. In a Green Shade A Country Commentary Those improvident Kellys had their one roomful of things taken from them by their landlord. Verner's Pride Can any thing in theory be more perniciously improvident and injudicious than this submission of the will of the majority to the most trifling minority? American Eloquence, Volume 1 Studies In American Political History (1896) The poor in that case would be rendered as improvident as the rich, which would not be at all good for them. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) In the rush of adventurers, of the indolent, the improvident and the vicious, great suffering ensued. The Empire of Russia Oh, you drive me wild with your improvident, Bohemian ways. If Only etc. He was wild, random, improvident, had given her incessant trouble as a child and as a man; and so, mother fashion, she loved him best. Verner's Pride He was idle, careless, and improvident: he left college without permission, but was taken back by his brother, and was finally graduated with a bachelor's degree, in 1749. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction I do not know that such an improvident and stupid selfishness deserves the discussion which perhaps I may bestow upon it hereafter. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) Large trees are rare; in fact, they have been all cut down by the Singfos, who are like all other natives excessively improvident. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries They were generous and improvident, frank, fearless, easy-going, and filled with an intense scorn for every thing that smacked of Eastern refinement or city life. Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made Thus, by concealing the true state of the case, they rendered the wisdom of the nation as improvident as their own temerity, either in preventing or guarding against the mischief. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) In the words of his epitaph, his prose papers "encouraged the good and reformed the improvident, tamed the wicked, and in some degree made them in love with virtue." English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction We hear again and again of improvident contracts and extravagant purchases, and also of absurd cost incurred in supervising minute details. Rebuilding Britain A Survey of Problems of Reconstruction After the World War Owen had issued a universal invitation to the "industrious and well disposed," but his project offered also the lure of a free meal ticket for the improvident and the glitter of novelty for the restless. Our Foreigners A Chronicle of Americans in the Making By adopting this as his specialty, he has rendered himself so perfect in it that he has almost made the improvident, light-hearted Rip a living creature. Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made It is little wonder that in many parts there has been and is improvident use of wood. The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People Now, in every class and profession, there are failures,—persons that are good for nothing, indolent, improvident, and thriftless. The Land-War In Ireland (1870) A History For The Times It has been well said of their past industrial character and history,—'We were reckless, ignorant, improvident, drunken, and idle. Handbook of Home Rule Being articles on the Irish question They were numerous, improvident, ragged in dress, and fond of an alehouse and of gossip. International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 You may see clever, educated, literary men, with no conduct whatever,—wasteful, improvident, drunken, and vicious. Thrift It was the last place in Italy where we were likely to have seen the Tarantella; but these simple people are improvident in lying, as in every thing else. Italian Journeys Here Sheridan, always the most improvident of men, launched out into extravagances more suited to an income of £5000 a year than the paltry £150 which was all he could command. Love Romances of the Aristocracy An individual living beyond his income and embarrassing himself with debt or drawing upon his accumulated fund of principal is either unfortunate or improvident. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 2: Grover Cleveland And, personally, he was much fonder of his younger daughter, whom Mary considered foolish and improvident. The Marriage of William Ashe Men who live by their wits, their talents, or their genius, have, somehow or other, acquired the character of being improvident. Thrift "And is not that—pardon me!—a little improvident?" Max His improvident, harum-scarum habits had very soon deprived him of all the advantages that might have resulted from the soldier's munificent gift, and left him a landless good-for-nothing, yet contented vagabond as before. Nick of the Woods "I mistook many things," said Yelverton afterwards, in words which come back into our minds at a later period, "I was improvident in some things, and too credulous in all things." Bacon Gunning and especially netting, in the most reckless and improvident manner, are on the increase. Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore Thus, when a population is thoughtless and improvident, no kind of material prosperity will benefit them. Thrift Such improvident neglect was in keeping with my altering view of women, a view accorded to me by self-dissipation of the glamour through which they had been wont to appear. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion I afterward saw this improvident husband and unnatural father. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1 Not merely the wicked, but the improvident and the negligent, often flourish like the green bay tree, and they keep on flourishing, and setting wisdom and righteousness at defiance in the most successful manner. The Plain Man and His Wife She added that many of these poor people are most improvident, and make no provision whatsoever for these events, even if they can afford to do so. Regeneration They were, of course, improvident; for, like savages generally, they never save. Thrift Thirdly, in the same way children, from a very early age,—seven years, and even younger,—work in order to support their improvident parents. Rides on Railways We lose because we are too improvident to conserve large forms of wild life unless we are compelled to do so by the stern edict of the law! Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation After a turbulent and improvident life he d. at 35. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature Antonyms: economy, thrift, frugality. extravagant, a. wasteful, unthrifty, prodigal, improvident, lavish; wild, immoderate, preposterous, inordinate, exorbitant. Putnam's Word Book Conduct such as this is not only thoughtless and improvident, but heartless and cruel in the last degree. Thrift I often quarrel with him because he's so improvident. Savva and the Life of Man Two plays by Leonid Andreyev On the death of the father Henry Sheares came in for property to the value of £1,200 per annum, which his rather improvident habits soon diminished by one-half. Speeches from the Dock, Part I Meanwhile, less improvident than the grasshopper, let her make provision of glory for the time when there will be a famine of pleasure. International Weekly Miscellany — Volume 1, No. 3, July 15, 1850 Almost invariably they were Italians, who were thriving where improvident Americans had given up in despair. A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment They are improvident and thriftless to an extent which proves not less hurtful to their personal happiness and domestic comfort, than it is injurious to the society of which they form so important a part. Thrift An improvident man, who had quarrelled with his wife concerning household expenses, took her and the children out on the lawn, intending to make an example of her. Cobwebs from an Empty Skull The wife of this idle and improvident butcher was such a wife as such men usually contrive to pick up,—industrious, saving, and capable; the mainstay of his house. Famous Americans of Recent Times Indolent and improvident even for their own safety and interest, they in general neglected the means by which either could be secured. An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 1 With Remarks on the Dispositions, Customs, Manners, Etc. of The Native Inhabitants of That Country. to Which Are Added, Some Particulars of New Zealand; Compiled, By Permission, From The Mss. of Lieutenant-Governor King. "There go two of the brightest fellows and most improvident scamps in the whole Quartier," said my companion. In the Days of My Youth It is in this way that society mainly consists of two classes—the savers and the wasters, the provident and the improvident, the thrifty and the thriftless, the Haves and the Have-nots. Thrift A leak in his cabin roof—quite consistent with his careless, improvident habits—had roused him at 4 A.M., with a flooded "bunk" and wet blankets. Frontier Stories But they would have to present the washing away of the soil and the waste through improvident ignorance or careless profligacy of any fertilizer, or of any trickle of water needed for irrigation. The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions, Including the Ladrones, Hawaii, Cuba and Porto Rico The Eldorado of the Orient The situation of Surveyor, even in his careless and improvident hands, turned out a lucrative one; for it is said that he cleared by it no less than £7000. Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham What brick and mortar idylls, what romances au cinquième, what joyous epithalamiums, what gay improvident ménages, what kisses, what laughter, what tears, what lightly-spoken and lightly-broken vows those old walls could have told of! In the Days of My Youth But the British soldier, improvident as the grasshopper, carries his day's rations in one place, and one place only—his stomach. All in It : K(1) Carries On A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand It was now some years since he had declared that though Mr. Carroll,—or Captain Carroll, as he had then been called,—was an improvident, worthless, drunken Irishman, he would never see his sister want. Mr. Scarborough's Family These give no encouragement to the increase of improvident families and to the breaking down of independent character. Modern Economic Problems Economics Volume II Delsarte, improvident for the future and scorning money, still had, during the best years of his professorship, a relatively comfortable home. Delsarte System of Oratory The most improvident of these people look forward to and prepare for the contingency, inevitable indeed, and yet deemed by other folk unutterably remote. North, South and over the Sea This improvident expenditure has had the effect of making the people discontented. Notes of an Overland Journey Through France and Egypt to Bombay Others, again, will deem my acts too good-natured, improvident, or vain, as usually happens, when such are considered from a point of view different from the actual one. The Merchant of Berlin An Historical Novel The officers did not know how to support their authority; they were very improvident, and one or two became implicated in serious scandals. The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783 Their farming implements were rude, their methods of cultivation simple and primitive, and they themselves were often lazy and improvident. The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 They were half won! those madmen With their improvident over-readiness— cruel game is Fortune playing with me. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes To be stranded a thousand miles from the "settlements" was a fate none but the most improvident and reckless cared to hazard. Reminiscences of a Pioneer Do not suppose, Mr. President, that I feel as if engaged in a forbidden or improvident act. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 Indolent in his habits, the Indian is opposed to labor; improvident in his mode of life, he has little foresight in providing, or care in preserving. Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers He is intemperate and improvident, wasting in liquor what would be useful to his family if laid out for provisions, &c. Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers "The negro is by nature indolent and improvident." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 He conceded that most of the blacks were improvident and poor, but believed that their condition was not due to deficient understanding but to their lack of education. The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 A History of the Education of the Colored People of the United States from the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War He is too improvident for a leader, too petulant for a partisan; and does not sufficiently consult those with whom he is supposed to act in concert. The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits And when I asked whether the practice was confined to the constitutionally improvident classes, he said "No" very quickly. American Notes I thought you was poor, my improvident friend!' Little Dorrit Try and reform a habitually indolent, or improvident, or drunken person, and in a large majority of cases you will fail. Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance The political economist may cry out against it for putting the improvident on the same level as the provident, and so robbing life of the strongest, because most sordid, incentive to industry. Intentions He was subsequently joined by those of South Carolina; but, owing to his own ill-advised and improvident movements, the expedition was a total failure.* The Life of Francis Marion These accidents did sometimes happen in the best regulated families of Coketown, but the bankrupts had no connexion whatever with the improvident classes. Hard Times He removed his cap and wig, for the air was warm, and an improvident impulse made him cast the latter object overboard. The War in the Air I do not deny that he is improvident. David Copperfield It is true they were improvident, and easily dazzled with the sight of ready money; but they were gentlefolk besides, and that in a way which curiously unfitted them to combat Yankee craft. Across the Plains As the Indian is slow to forget or change the ways of his father, we should pause before we brand him as wholly improvident, I think. Indian Why Stories Sparks from War Eagle's Lodge-Fire He had been a classmate of Bowen Tyler at college, and a fraternity brother, and before, that he had been an impoverished and improvident cow-puncher on one of the great Tyler ranches. The People That Time Forgot Even as improvident a cowpuncher as Johnny Croft had been likes to own a "private" horse,—one that is his own and can be ridden when and where the owner chooses. Jean of the Lazy A If we knew this, we should regard them from our conservative standpoint of provident decorum as improvident lunatics, being ourselves unable to calculate with their odd courage and their cheerful belief in themselves. The Shuttle We see, in fact, that even the most certain natural consequences are defied, and lose most of their power to guard an improvident man from anti-natural and dangerous actions. Criminal Sociology No one will ever make even a visible dint on the Morass of Squalor who does not deal with the improvident, the lazy, the vicious, and the criminal. In Darkest England and the Way Out They are careless because they have not found that it pays to be careful; they are improvident because the improvident ones of their acquaintance get on about as well as the provident. The Souls of Black Folk After all, the wild Indians could not be justly termed improvident, when their manner of life is taken into consideration. Indian Boyhood His mental anxieties seem to be for ever torturing every nerve and fibre of his body, and yet with all this exquisite sensitiveness to the suggestions of the mind, he is grossly improvident. Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East Now in regard to legal punishment, even apart from passionate impulse, it is known that criminals, occasional and other, are specially improvident, in common with savages and children. Criminal Sociology It takes no spectacles to see that a great class of vicious, improvident, degraded people, among us, are an evil to us, as well as to themselves. Uncle Tom's Cabin An old ragged black man, honest, simple, and improvident, told us the tale. The Souls of Black Folk Weak, self-indulgent, improvident, he had pursued a policy of opportunism to a fatal conclusion. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 In 1993 the large fiscal deficit emerged as a key economic problem, the result of improvident state spending. The 1994 CIA World Factbook She hired a little room and furnished on credit on the strength of her future work—a lingering trace of her improvident ways. Les Misérables She found, to her dismay, that this was owing to their having eaten all the seed potatoes,—that last lapse of the improvident. Tess of the d'Urbervilles It is not enough to say that Louis XIV was an improvident and passionate ruler, that Louis XV was a dreary and revolting voluptuary. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 But he is often put into a difficulty by a somewhat improvident clause in the charter-party requiring him to sign bills of lading as presented. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 It is improvident youths like you, who come to lament their wasted lives. A Chair on the Boulevard The bargain, even if it had been honestly carried out, was improvident enough. Santo Domingo A Country with a Future It is easy to prove that, during the late war, all the good advice given to the King came from Moltke; all hurried, or lame, or improvident, or perfidiously cruel measures came from the Chancellor. Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II. Because my father was an improvident scoundrel, and did not leave me five hundred a year. Birds of Prey The improvident pabulum "evolves" its own eaters, and then, spider-like, is eviscerated by them, as was Actaeon by his own hounds. Life: Its True Genesis Careless in that, as he was in other things, improvident as was ever Lady Augusta, Roland rarely paid until he was compelled to do so. The Channings His ambition to remain in power necessitated the expenditure of large sums which he obtained through improvident foreign loans and usurious contracts with local merchants. Santo Domingo A Country with a Future This most improvident expression uttered by a Crown lawyer formed the subject of comment and reproach in all the subsequent debates, in all publications of the times, and in everybody's conversation.' Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 I see young women every where, especially among the middling and higher classes, and in great numbers too, exceedingly improvident; and not a few of them, wasteful. The Young Woman's Guide White laborers are all liable to such charges, and why not wasteful and improvident blacks? Report on the Condition of the South How could he tell that grieving woman, that Roland—careless, lazy, improvident Roland—would be almost sure to return in a worse plight than he had gone? The Channings "I was about to relieve a certain surplusage of emotion," I retorted, "by observing that I regret to find you, sir, a chattering, lean-witted fool—a vain and improvident fool!" Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes Indeed, I think my country was ashamed to have so improvident a person in its employ. Roughing It, Part 3. It is admitted to be an improvident expenditure of reputation, but no inference advantageous to Rowley can be deduced from this circumstance. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey Buy nothing—live upon nothing!" repeated Lady Davenant; "how often have I heard these words said by the most improvident, in the moment of repentance, even then as blind and uncalculating as ever! Tales and Novels — Volume 10 Of course it never occurred to proud and improvident Roland that it was possible to travel in any carriage but a first-class one. The Channings The improvident man loses his home under similar circumstances, for his credit is not good and he has no balance to draw upon. Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency The stores thus furnished, however, coming from a limited neighborhood of improvident beings, were not sufficient for the necessities of the Spaniards, and were so irregular as often to leave them in pinching want. The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Volume II) They counseled caution and reserve against an improvident investment of extensive capital in schemes which still be only regarded as experimental, and which might prove its grave. Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884 The brothers were somewhat improvident, leading gay bachelors' lives; and, getting into debt gradually, they were compelled at last to mortgage their small property to a Jew for the sum of two hundred pounds. The Life of John Clare |
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