| 单词 | necessitous |
| 例句 | Back in 1933, Franklin Roosevelt, in his inaugural address, pointed out that "a necessitous man is not a free man." Republicans and billionaires are selling Americans a deadly caricature of "freedom" 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z President Franklin D. Roosevelt, indulging in progressive utopianism, insisted that “necessitous men are not free.” Opinion | Why toxic politics thrives in an age of plenty 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z “If you just can’t get ‘necessitous’ out, and the author’s happy with it, you can go for ‘needy’.” 'Your throat hurts. Your brain hurts': the secret life of the audiobook star 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z FDR said “necessitous men are not free men,” implying that government can and should remove necessity from the human story. Opinion | Bernie Sanders is FDR’s unimaginative echo 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z “The first lady’s initiative, ‘Let Girls Learn’ is a fantastic one, and it’s a necessitous one, and this film absolutely speaks to that, ” he says. ‘Queen of Katwe’ stars Lupita Nyong’o and David Oyelowo screen movie for lawmakers 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z The Bishops sought to relieve necessitous convents by offering particular inducements to the faithful to give alms, when they were thus requested. Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z As memories of subsistence struggles recede, people who are no longer necessitous are indeed free — free to use politics for unpleasant self-expression. Opinion | Why toxic politics thrives in an age of plenty 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z For of all for whom the desires of the faithful should go up to heaven, surely the most necessitous are those who have as yet no value for heavenly blessings. The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel 2012-04-08T02:00:20.427Z 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 The education authority may also draw on the rates to provide meals for necessitous children. Boy Labour and Apprenticeship 2012-03-30T02:00:18.807Z His childhood was indeed a little necessitous, and he died early, and in debt, after some years of very bad health. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2012-03-28T02:00:26.907Z The system works admirably and already a great amount of good, in really necessitous cases, has been done. The Story of the Great Fire in St. John, N.B., June 20th, 1877 2012-03-27T02:00:21.067Z But the success of the "Scarlet Letter" had relieved the necessitous condition of its author; and his landlord here—Tappan of "Tanglewood"—testifies and Hawthorne's letters show that he was able to pay his rent. Literary Shrines The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors 2012-02-18T03:00:15.287Z You will think that they must be very necessitous Gentlemen,103 who will submit to this Rule, and that their Excellencies Antichambers are only frequented by their own Domestics. The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. 2012-01-07T03:00:17.127Z Indeed his voluminous correspondence rather resembles the letter-bag of an agency for necessitous persons of social position than the papers of a Prime Minister or Secretary of State. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z They then agreed to raise support for a Missionary to one of the most necessitous districts, and wrote a letter to the Committee of the London City Mission to that effect. The Man with the Book or, The Bible Among the People. 2011-12-19T03:00:47.530Z In 1635, as a consequence, doubtless, of their necessitous condition, they had ceased to keep horses, and letters were being carried on foot. The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 2011-12-19T03:00:45.273Z Evans promised to come round as soon as he possibly could, and the launch chuffed gallantly away to the relief of the still more necessitous on the other side of the island. White Fire 2011-11-21T03:00:15.067Z In his poverty he would part with money or personal property to people whom he considered more necessitous than himself. Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z Compensate! when your feast is interrupted by the needy, wretched cries of thousands of your starving fellow-creatures! or are your revels only seasoned by the groans of your necessitous brethren? John Ronge: The Holy Coat Of Treves New German-Catholic Chruch 2011-10-12T02:00:44.710Z It was then that she saw how far she was removed from the capital; in the precincts of which the poor and the labourer are almost constantly rapacious, or necessitous. The Wanderer (Volume 4 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:32.663Z A sycophant must always be despicable; a parasite must eternally deserve scorn; but may there not be a possibility of uniting the affluent with the necessitous upon more equitable terms? The Wanderer (Volume 3 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:28.670Z But Smith in his day was strongly in favour of fixing a legal rate of interest, because he thought it was necessary to prevent the practice of extortion by unscrupulous dealers on necessitous clients. Contemporary Socialism 2011-09-10T02:00:28.673Z He is not engaged by the proprietors to aid charity, or to minister to the necessitous; his work is to provide goods that the public will buy—just like any other business man. The Lure of the Pen A book for Would-Be Authors 2011-07-26T02:00:15.573Z The reasons for its adoption were, and are, still obviously wise, although not necessitous. Antonio Stradivari 2011-06-28T02:00:11.050Z He died in 1794, leaving his widow and family in necessitous circumstances. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z It is one thing barely to comply with the urgencies of the case, and to do that which in necessitous circumstances is best. Ormond, Volume I (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:26.023Z Several of the most necessitous cases had been rejected; for instance, an officer with a double hernia and an officer suffering from genuine fits. A Prisoner in Turkey 2011-05-28T02:00:23.023Z It is not to be supposed that the benefit of the public school system is shared only by the necessitous. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:11.200Z They have refused to transmit anything to the convicts, that is to say, to the most necessitous, who, six thousand leagues from France, pine away without resources and with no possibility of work. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z Moreover, necessitous though I am, it goes against my pride to owe everything to my wife. Tales from Blackwood Volume 8 2011-04-09T02:00:09.087Z The President will give no such order, because the necessities of government will compel it to draw on the bank till the bank becomes as necessitous as itself. The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) 2011-04-02T02:00:12.460Z The provision of meals, out of public funds, for necessitous children in public elementary schools? Socialism and Democracy in Europe 2011-03-15T02:00:12.887Z I endeavored to improve this opportunity to explain to my daughter the necessity of discrimination between the really necessitous, and impostors. Cora and The Doctor or Revelations of A Physician's Wife 2011-03-10T03:00:49.120Z Their plan gratuitously returned the pledged objects to the victims of war and to the necessitous. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z She wanted to test the actuality of this apparent dream by handling coin and causing it to vanish over counters and into the palms of the necessitous. Anna of the Five Towns 2011-03-08T03:00:38.117Z The author’s name was not given, he only requesting in his note that the money, if awarded him, should be paid over for the benefit of our necessitous soldiers. Songs and Ballads of the Southern People 1861-1865 2011-03-06T03:00:22.800Z The model-lodging-house enterprise was a most praiseworthy one, but it seems to have been confined only to the wants of the most necessitous class in the community. My Unknown Chum 2011-03-01T03:00:38.307Z The two others were younger and looked more necessitous. Partners A Novel. 2011-02-02T03:00:20.690Z Later it was explained to me that during the intervals between his engagements Sir Joshua caused an aged street-paver, who had fallen into necessitous circumstances, but who possessed an expressive head, to sit for him. Garrick's Pupil 2011-01-22T03:00:14.780Z So the Act for feeding necessitous school-children, by preventing the reduction of physical, mental, and moral strength in the present, will prevent future expenditure in poor relief, hospitals, and police. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z The object of the fund is the relief of all Post Office servants throughout the United Kingdom, who, through no fault of their own, have fallen into necessitous circumstances. The Bristol Royal Mail Post, Telegraph, and Telephone Such proverbs as these should be pondered over: "Reckless youth makes rueful age"; "If youth knew what age would crave, it would both get and save"; "A young man negligent, an old man necessitous." Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources He could talk, too, for that was an accomplishment necessitous to the friends and satellites of Prince Florizel, who hated nothing so much as being bored. A Blot on the Scutcheon The landscape stretched away in a rude, unlovely expanse of grey fields, shaded in places by brown stubble, and in others lightened by pale, thin corn—the stunted reward of necessitous husbandry. Sister Dolorosa and Posthumous Fame So the Act providing for the feeding of necessitous children in public schools aims at preventing the permanent deterioration of body and character which is produced by inadequate nourishment in the early years of life. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z The name Alsatia is a Latinized form of Alsace, which, being on the frontiers of France and Germany, was a harbour for necessitous or troublesome characters from both countries. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide They were an interesting class, accustomed to self-denial, frequently afflicted with weakly bodies, the result of the hard, necessitous life through which they have had to work upwards. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. In all their economic plans they make one reservation, that, however necessitous the world may be, it shall still support them. The Acquisitive Society “By this means,” says Plutarch, “he relieved the state of numerous idle agitators and assisted the necessitous.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" Again we read of the falling rate of interest and of the failure of trusts and combines to resist the outside pressure of necessitous capital, seeking to force its way into industries. American World Policies A recent survey has been made in an eastern state on the causes of failure in farming, frequently followed by necessitous abandonment of the farm and home. A Living from the Land She drew a picture of the necessitous condition of various people in the neighborhood, for she knew everybody for miles around. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine That is to say, to relieve the necessitous; to prevent their suffering from want; completely to render starvation impossible, makes a part of our very constitution. Cottage Economy To Which Is Added The Poor Man's Friend This Society was instituted in 1784, with the object of relieving the necessitous children of Irish parents resident in London. Speeches and Addresses of H. R. H. the Prince of Wales: 1863-1888 The parent Church selected necessitous districts, in which they have opened schools and mission-rooms; in these a number of the congregation begin to labour as teachers, visitors, evangelists, &c. The Religious Life of London So various are all humane affairs, & so necessitous may the state of Princes be, that their greatest danger may be in their supposed safety, and their safety in their supposed danger. Eikon Basilike The Pourtracture of His Sacred Majestie, in His Solitudes and Sufferings An easement of the poor and necessitous was plead as a reason for measures which have reduced them to more extreme necessity. Essays on the Constitution of the United States “THEREFORE, our laws ought by no means to be taxed with being unmerciful for denying this privilege to the necessitous.” Cottage Economy To Which Is Added The Poor Man's Friend Its object is to assist the orphans and unmarried daughters of clergymen of the Church of England, and to afford temporary aid to their necessitous parents. Speeches and Addresses of H. R. H. the Prince of Wales: 1863-1888 This distinction was not with him, as it is with many, invented as an argument for saving his money, which he most willingly bestowed for feeding and clothing the necessitous. Coelebs In Search of a Wife Without attempting to discuss this question, it is sufficient to remark, that the structure and composition of our own language, and of its northern kindred, afford sufficient evidence of a very rude and necessitous origin. Sound Mind or, Contributions to the natural history and physiology of the human intellect The solemnity of God's service, the stillness, the enchanting singing, the dread-inspiring presentiment which hovered over every mystery that here tried to present itself visibly to the necessitous, languishing senses, transported my heart. The Rebellion in the Cevennes, an Historical Novel Vol. II. You see, our laws, he says, are not to be taxed with being unmerciful in deeming the necessitous taker a thief. Cottage Economy To Which Is Added The Poor Man's Friend Often a detective will help a man out of his own pocket when he knows that a case is really a necessitous one. Scotland Yard The methods and organisation of the Metropolitan Police The largest bounty to the necessitous on our estates, is rather justice than charity. Coelebs In Search of a Wife The Hanseatic League of the cities of Northern Germany and neighboring states, no doubt, had its origin in the necessitous combination of merchants to resist the attacks of the Norsemen. Pirates and Piracy Among them there may be some necessitous ones who would be proper objects of particular legacies, yet it would be impossible for me at this moment to know which they are. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. There would be sure to be some such necessitous persons in a state of civil society. Cottage Economy To Which Is Added The Poor Man's Friend Exorbitant rents can only be exacted from ignorant or necessitous rent-payers: and it is one of the most necessary conditions of state economy that there should be clear laws to prevent such exaction. Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne Twenty-five Letters to a Working Man of Sunderland on the Laws of Work Objects, assistance to necessitous clergymen, their widows and maiden daughters; education of children of poor clergymen, and the starting of them in life. The Church Handy Dictionary If there are within reach a body of necessitous men out of employment and available for filling the positions for which individual laborers are applying, the applicants are at a fatal disadvantage. Essentials of Economic Theory As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy The necessitous, however, show a keen taste for it. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, May 24, 1890 But, generally, such factories accommodated only what might be called the better order of workers,—that is, the least necessitous. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 This is tempting to a necessitous and ambitious man. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II Still, however, this is occasionally done by persons of p. 235high birth, who happen to be in necessitous circumstances; nor do the parents on this account lose cast. An Account of The Kingdom of Nepal And of the Territories Annexed to this Dominion by the House of Gorkha If their places are filled at once by men who are already thus necessitous, the resulting rate may be equally below the natural standard. Essentials of Economic Theory As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy He became intemperate; and his intemperance made her necessitous. The Claims of Labour an essay on the duties of the employers to the employed His income was spent on the poor, on struggling men of genius, and on necessitous friends. Flowers of Freethought (First Series) In every nation, wherever civilization extends—and not unfrequently among wild savages of the forest—it opens an asylum to a brother in distress, and grants hospitality to the necessitous and unfortunate. Masonic Monitor of the Degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master Mason together with the Ceremony of Installation, Laying Corner Stones, Dedications, Masonic Burial, Etc. A few have been degraded, and sold by the Raja on account of crimes alleged against them: but by far the greater part have been sold by necessitous parents. An Account of The Kingdom of Nepal And of the Territories Annexed to this Dominion by the House of Gorkha Four pounds a year for every child under fourteen in every necessitous family will ensure the health and instruction of the next generation. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle Much nutricious food might be provided for the poor and necessitous, at a very trifling expence, by only adopting a plan of frugality, and gathering up the fragments, that nothing be lost. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families Never overstepping the strict boundaries of legal righteousness, he was neither warm-hearted nor generous—in fact, he would turn any trick which could be speciously, or at best necessitously, recommended to his conscience. Jennie Gerhardt A Novel If a husband or wife dies affluent, leaving the survivor in necessitous circumstances, the latter can claim one-fourth of the estate of the deceased. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III He was accompanied by a pure Brahman, equally necessitous, and named Jaydev, from whom the two Nidhis, my informants, claim a descent. An Account of The Kingdom of Nepal And of the Territories Annexed to this Dominion by the House of Gorkha If he were assured of his competency in the world, and placed beyond the reach of necessitous want, how would it ever occur to him to create an insincere art? The Speaker, No. 5: Volume II, Issue 1 December, 1906. Experience of other nations has taught that the institution of free meals for necessitous school-children is immediately and very grossly abused by unscrupulous parents easily able to feed their children. British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals For Jewish writers a hard, necessitous lot has ever been a storm wind, tossing them hither and thither, and blowing the seeds of knowledge over all lands. Jewish Literature and Other Essays Congress need no arguments to convince them of the disgrace and danger of permitting their most confidential servants to be necessitous in a foreign country. The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. XI Notwithstanding our vow of poverty, we can by rule amass to the extent of 'two shillings;' but it is to be given to our necessitous kindred, or in charity. Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Donors and subscribers gain the first attention in the recommendation of pupils; and the only inquiry made upon applications for admission is into the really necessitous circumstances of the applicant. Emily Brontë The reception he met with was cool and mortifying; the nobleman turned his back upon the necessitous veteran, and left him to find his way to the street through a suite of apartments magnificently furnished. A Hundred Anecdotes of Animals The ignorant, the modest, and the necessitous—persons who should be the last to suffer from fraud,—are, in this way, often made victims. The Young Man's Guide Have you anything? do not borrow, for you are not in a necessitous condition. Plutarch's Morals Of a truth she deserved to have loving children; for she was a good Daughter to her suffering necessitous Parents; and the childlike solicitude she always had for them well deserved the like from us. The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works He was always willing to part with his provisions: to divide his sugar and tea with the necessitous, and to perform errands of kindness in their favor. The History of Tasmania , Volume II The next letter is from one who materially aided her in helping the necessitous. Gathering Jewels The Secret of a Beautiful Life: In Memoriam of Mr. & Mrs. James Knowles. Selected from Their Diaries. From the looks of your clothing I should judge that you belong to the necessitous group, though from a certain uneasy expression I might easily place you among the delinquent and criminal. Blacksheep! Blacksheep! We gentlemen of small fortunes are extremely necessitous in this particular. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II His tenants now felt the iron rule of a merciless and necessitous master; for Lord Lovat's expenditure far exceeded his means and revenue. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. Or shall the phrase now beginning to be used in laws passed against family desertion apply to the wife only when it is proved she is 86"in necessitous circumstances" without her husband's provision? The Family and it's Members By filling them with the spirit of Jesus, they are thus thoroughly qualified to minister to the necessitous. Gathering Jewels The Secret of a Beautiful Life: In Memoriam of Mr. & Mrs. James Knowles. Selected from Their Diaries. By the middle of April it was computed that no less than 300,000 peasants, besides necessitous townsfolk, were armed and in open rebellion. German Culture Past and Present His patrimony he employed in relieving the necessitous, and in building or endowing monasteries, churches, and hospitals. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March As this would throw a large number of men out of work, he further proposed a scheme for the relief of necessitous and supernumerary printers. A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898 Many of the most necessitous and deserving poor would also be left unrelieved. Historical and Political Essays She fed the hungry and clothed the naked; many a loaf of bread she carried with her own hands to the necessitous. Gathering Jewels The Secret of a Beautiful Life: In Memoriam of Mr. & Mrs. James Knowles. Selected from Their Diaries. He says it would make her more unfortunate still; he's too necessitous to provide even for the living consequence of his indiscretion. John Bull The Englishman's Fireside: A Comedy, in Five Acts She was careful in inquiring after the necessitous, and deemed it a loss on her side if any other hands than her own administered relief to them. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March That soil had become divided into minute allotments, held by a pauper tenantry, at exorbitant rents, of a class of middlemen, themselves necessitous, and who were mere traders in land. Lord George Bentinck A Political Biography He took pleasure in helping necessitous authors, men and women, not at all en grand seigneur, or without counting the cost, but because he knew what poverty meant, and a fellow-feeling made him kind. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" At the death of Farmer Humphreys, the church-land he had occupied was taken from his widow, who was now fallen into decay, and unable to assist the necessitous pastor she so truly revered. The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel We believe he was one of the promoters of a society formed for the purpose of extending the church accommodation of Glasgow, and especially for the building of new churches in neglected and necessitous localities. Western Worthies A Gallery of Biographical and Critical Sketches of West of Scotland Celebrities No number of necessitous objects, no losses, no straits to which he saw himself often reduced, discouraged him, or made him lose his confidence in divine providence, and resources never failed him in the end. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March A young minion to gratify with pleasure, a necessitous family to supply with riches, were enterprises too great for the empty exchequer of James. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. The provost-marshal has been dismissed and an indebted person put in his place; and all the most substantial officers, civil and military, have been turned out and necessitous persons set up in their room. The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century On completing a fifth session at the University, he experienced anxiety regarding the choice of a profession, chiefly with the desire of being able speedily to aid in the support of his necessitous parents. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century I could gather, from their date and tenor, that they were received during his absence on his recent voyage; that her condition was considerably necessitous, and surrounded by wants which their prolonged separation had increased. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 It casts its blessed beams into dark places, and while it brings countless crimes to light, it also reveals to the beneficence of the world the wrongs and needs of the necessitous. Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z He never robs from the loose superfluity of standing greatness; he devours the fallen, the indigent, the necessitous. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) Hucksters read our necessitous state and ran at heel shouting their wares. Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade They were all men of bad habits, and urgently necessitous, but yet of decent education and family. The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales For a moment, I forgot my own necessitous condition, and reflected not that abstinence had already undermined my strength. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 Verily, soon enough the laboring day With its necessitous unmusical calls Will force the indolent conscience into life. The Germ Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art These buildings were converted into hospitals, their inmates were obliged to turn out, and at length the necessitous were deprived of their scanty allowance—the funds were exhausted, and no fresh supplies received. Narrative of the Most Remarkable Events Which Occurred In and Near Leipzig Immediately Before, During, And Subsequent To, The Sanguinary Series Of Engagements Between The Allied Armies Of The French, From The 14th To The 19th October, 1813 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 About the time of the conclusion of the war in England, he left Ireland, and being shipwrecked, came to London in a very necessitous condition. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II All the mean oppressions of a necessitous government were exercised on this occasion. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) Others again are out of Humour, because I do not comply with all their unreasonable Demands, their Luxury always keeping them necessitous. A Voyage to Cacklogallinia With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of That Country Our prosperous days afforded us the felicity of being able to perform in its full extent the duty of beneficence towards the necessitous. Narrative of the Most Remarkable Events Which Occurred In and Near Leipzig Immediately Before, During, And Subsequent To, The Sanguinary Series Of Engagements Between The Allied Armies Of The French, From The 14th To The 19th October, 1813 Although his practice was eminently profitable, he was so careless and extravagant in money matters, that he was always poor and necessitous, especially in his old age. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest The truth is, this worthy nobleman having himself a taste for the liberal arts, was always pleased to have men of genius about him, and had the pleasure to rescue necessitous merit from obscurity. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II Is it within the possibility of belief that people should become more honest as they become more necessitous? 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 It holds out a shadow of present gain to a greedy and necessitous public, to divert their attention from those abuses which in reality are the great causes of their wants. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) He was told that he was a Northumbrian, then resident in the house—a man in necessitous circumstances, and wanting employment. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. Any necessitous knave with the gift of tears and the mask of sensibility could dupe and prey upon him. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) But he gave fifteen away to really necessitous families and kept only one for himself. Draft of a Plan for Beginning Animal Sanctuaries in Labrador Its greatest and most necessitous demand was to stand apart from anything in the nature of racialism. Painted Windows Studies in Religious Personality They have been taxed to their ruin at the pleasure of necessitous and profligate relations, and according to the measure of their necessity and profligacy. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) Pray the Brotherhood of Mercy to have pity on those wretches, and labour with the judges for their enlargement; in the mean time, providing for the most necessitous, who oftentimes have not wherewithal to subsist. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 16 Many a time the hours went very slowly for the necessitous man. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) "How very absurd all this is," said Miss Ford nervously,—"taking such a great deal of trouble about a necessitous case." Living Alone He became intemperate; and his intemperance made her necessitous. Thrift But if spent as suggested above, it will be of much more use to many, and those the most necessitous, and, in addition, to the service of God and your Majesty. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 10 of 55 1597-1599 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century He sent money more than once to the necessitous court in Holland, continuing to do so until the king departed thence to Scotland. St George's Cross The existence of this army of necessitous gentlewomen is a new thing in the land. As We Are and As We May Be By this means he relieved the state of numerous idle agitators, assisted the necessitous, and overawed the allies of Athens by placing his colonists near them to watch their behaviour. Plutarch's Lives, Volume I Exclusive of a pittance to the poor widows above, the trust have a power of distributing money to the necessitous at Christmas and Easter, which is punctually performed. An History of Birmingham (1783) Does not such a regulation tend to involve necessitous men in the commission of crimes? Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 To me this all-deafening blast of Puffery, of poor Falsehood grown necessitous, of poor Heart- Atheism fallen now into Enchanted Workhouses, sounds too surely like a Doom's-blast! Past and Present If the community could pay for it, it was bound to do so; but if the necessitous person could not pay for it, he was none the less entitled to take it. An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching The Education Fund of 1896, amounting to £7,115, was spent on the Training Colleges, grants to necessitous schools, etc. Great Britain and Her Queen This money was distributed amongst those whom I have mentioned, above all to the most necessitous, and principally to those employed upon the stage, which materially increased the comfort of the citizens. The Secret History of the Court of Justinian More urgent than any political emancipation is the drawing together of men of good will in the endeavour to assist their necessitous land. The Insurrection in Dublin For all our vow of poverty, we can by rule amass to the extent of 'two shillings;' but it is to be given to our necessitous kindred, or in charity. Past and Present Thus did Providence hand over the soup the Belcovitches took from old habit to a more necessitous quarter, and demonstrate in double sense that Charity never faileth. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People Because this is a necessitous line it should not surprise us that it is frequently beautiful as well. Architecture and Democracy We are looking daily for the arrival of Boats from below with corn, tis the wish of the Gen'l that the necessitous Indians sh'd be supplied from this place. The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War All these are a sufficient warrant for a poor necessitous sinner to lay hold on his offer. Christ: The Way, the Truth, and the Life Or, again, in pictures whose sadness and gloom are lightened, to be sure, with humor or warmed with love, he studies the necessitous life of the poor. The Glories of Ireland She made it her business to visit the Jails, and the prisoners who were most necessitous and deserving, she relieved. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume IV It is clear that the arrangement of numbers in a magic square is necessitous—they must be placed in a certain way in order that the summation of every column shall be the same. Architecture and Democracy The situation of his territories upon the Rhine made it necessary for the enemy to secure them, while their fertility afforded an irresistible temptation to a necessitous army. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes It is, indeed, not easy to prescribe a successful manner of approach to the distressed or necessitous, whose condition subjects every kind of behaviour equally to miscarriage. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II Both the Count and Countess acted as physicians, and gave money, advice, and medicine to all the necessitous and suffering of the town. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 Harrison was already reduced to necessitous circumstances by his continuous application to the improvement of the timekeepers. Men of Invention and Industry They are big, powerful, "necessitous," and have therefore an impressiveness, even an æsthetic appeal, not to be denied. Architecture and Democracy For there was an extreme inequality amongst them, and their state was overloaded with a multitude of indigent and necessitous persons, while its whole wealth had centered upon a very few. Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans Now when the earl held a Thing, Thorkel spoke on account of the people, and entreated the earl to spare the people from such heavy burdens, recounting their necessitous condition. Heimskringla, or the Chronicle of the Kings of Norway In the same house there lodged a Portuguese woman named Blavary, who, being in necessitous circumstances, was engaged by the Count as interpreter. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 He was a necessitous lord, a smiling, supple man who had already marketed two daughters to his advantage. The Certain Hour From the commencement of the institution a fund was set apart for this purpose, and subsequently a further sum was allotted to provide pensions for necessitous members of the Academy and their widows. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 "The necessitous are always welcome, and doubly so, in being the friend of Major Dunwoodie." The Spy A beautiful wife and lovely children, and a romantic situation, and an income sufficient not only for their own but for the wants of their necessitous neighbours; what more could man wish? Vivian Grey The necessitous have been liberally supplied: while those who have been possessed of the most ample and enviable abundance, have sometimes, by unexpected reverses, become destitute. Female Scripture Biographies, Volume II Alleviate the toil of the necessitous, but do not prevent their useful employment of time and means. Female Scripture Biographies, Volume I He begged him to use all possible means towards it, telling him, "it was I the duty of men of all professions to apply their skill gratis for the relief of the poor and necessitous." Joseph Andrews Vol 1 By his will he ordered the whole to be distributed in benefactions and alms throughout the neighbourhood, and in fact it relieved every necessitous person to be found round about. The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales And I shall always have milk from my flocks, and a cheese from my store, to set before the hungry and necessitous. Imogen A Pastoral Romance This venerable woman was prompt and undelaying in the relief she afforded to the necessitous. Female Scripture Biographies, Volume II His hand had always been open to the poor and necessitous. Run to Earth A Novel That in the one case I should be exposed to temptation is a mere contingency; that under necessitous circumstances I am exposed to great and frequent temptations is a melancholy certainty. Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. The first warning which the community had of his change of attitude was the conspicuous and even defiant closure of his shop, and the scornful rejection of custom, however urgent or necessitous. A Modern Instance How my heart pants for the illustrious hour in which thy palaces shall be crumbled down to the dust of the balance, thy riches scattered, and thyself become an unpitied, necessitous, miserable vagabond! Imogen A Pastoral Romance In truth, such was the undaunted spirit of the woman, that at this time she performed all the duties of a general, relieved the necessitous soldiers, upon the wounded bestowed medicines, and upon others clothes. The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola In the necessitous jungle animal food is never wasted, be it beast, bird, or reptile. Tropic Days Even in his poetry it was the necessitous limitations of rhyme-words that dragged him into his boldest thoughts. We Can't Have Everything Therefore to you alone do we see all necessitous Muses have recourse. The Magnificent Lovers (Les Amants magnifiques) To succour indeed the necessitous, and particularly my parents and relations, is a consideration of more value. Imogen A Pastoral Romance They are bought at Christmas for necessitous relations and little boys. Gone to Earth Quite dismantled and very necessitous, it entered by the bar of Camalayuga to the city of Segovia, which is at the head of the island of Luzon opposite Great China. History of the Philippine Islands When they had succeeded in cancelling the King's debt to his brother, that necessitous monarch again mortgaged them, but on this occasion to his son Edward. Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period The request was easily obtained, for they were desirous of getting rid of these generals of the king, who were skilled in war, and at once necessitous and enterprising. The History of Rome, Books 09 to 26 The defenders of the Commune must be removed above want: give to the necessitous that which is contained in the houses about to be destroyed. Paris under the Commune The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs) His purse was open to all in need, and he "often sold" his single mule in order to relieve some necessitous person. A Wanderer in Florence After exchanging salutations, the general said, pointing to the retreating form, 'That is one of our old soldiers, who is in necessitous circumstances.' A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee What is to be done with these necessitous? Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe Parcels are seldom sent to the camp, and hitherto no philanthropic society has busied itself over the necessitous. Turkish Prisoners in Egypt A Report by the Delegates of the International Committee of the Red Cross In the first place, the deacon was a little particular in not having intimates among the necessitous, and the Widow White soon let it be known that her guest had not even a "red cent." The Sea Lions The Lost Sealers But so susceptible is his heart for many who are necessitous, that he will often give to others all that he has received. Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel The negligent, the imprudent, the necessitous, are taken. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 10 Parlimentary Debates I By this means he relieved the state of numerous idle agitators, assisted the necessitous, and overawed the allies of Athens by placing his colonists near them to watch their behavior. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 02 (From the Rise of Greece to the Christian Era) He urged his past services, the original terms of the capitulation made with him, their infringement in almost every particular, and his own necessitous condition. The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 3 The father’s religion was manifested in his charities; he used to keep on hand a fund, of which his wife had no account, for contributions to the necessitous and loans to the irresponsible. Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot He commenced a list, heading it with the keeper of the cistern, whom he found poor, necessitous, and anxious to better his condition. The Prince of India — Volume 02 She perceived the prodigy herself and said quite simply, as she went on dividing the loaves, "I think our good God is multiplying this bread for His poor necessitous creatures." The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation He gave his clothes to him who appeared to be the most necessitous. The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi Thus inhabited, thus tilled, was the land: but the world was still large enough; and the men were not so circumspect, necessitous, and active, as to usurp at once the whole adjacent country. Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life Not only the sick, the maimed, and the accidentally necessitous were fed and clothed,—the same indiscriminating charity was extended to those far less worthy of the sympathy of their fellow-creatures. The Corporation of London, Its Rights and Privileges I wrote him a beseeching letter, urging him to consider my necessitous condition. My Life — Volume 2 From the richest he takes their superfluous wealth to distribute it among those whom misfortune, unmerited always in this laborious world, may have rendered necessitous. The Life of the Bee He was a necessitous widower with a marriageable daughter on his hands, a girl whom everybody admired for her beauty and charm of character. South Wind Not to cleave to a fatherland, be it even the most suffering and necessitous—it is even less difficult to detach one's heart from a victorious fatherland. Beyond Good and Evil But her face invited the necessitous; in the by-ways she had been appealed to for charity, with results which became known among people inclined to beg. Denzil Quarrier But all the rewards George distributed among the sick and necessitous and kept nothing for himself, and then he went further on his way of helpfulness. Heroes Every Child Should Know "They're poor necessitous devils, at any rate," said I, "and they want the money more than I do." Simon the Jester It suppressed too all inferior debates, and bound them together by a necessitous affection, without giving them time to differ upon trifles. Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 1 (1774-1779): the American Crisis He chose a night when a steady, blowing rain had driven all but limousined and most necessitous traffic from the streets. Children of the Whirlwind Only the uniforms of the English and American women who are attached to each of these many cantonments suggested any necessitous combating of the grim reaper. Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy The friend whom he had known under a shabby and necessitous guise had become a brilliant figure on the London Press. Dubliners The atmosphere of that big house with its army of servants, the impossibility of doing anything for himself, and the feeling of hopeless insulation from the vivid and necessitous sides of life, galled him greatly. The Patrician For there was an extreme inequality amongst them, and their state was overloaded with a multitude of indigent and necessitous persons, while its whole wealth had centred upon a very few. The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch being parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, edited for boys and girls I then made her understand how money was the thing that was the least necessary to the necessitous. Mauprat Soon after which, painful to relate, such the inexorable pressure of finance, Bauer and people were all paid off, flung loose again: ruthlessly paid off by a necessitous King! History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20 Sauntering one day in his outer courts, he notices a certain female beggar; necessitous female of loose life, who tremulously solicits charity of him. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 02 The petitions were as follows:— O! that we might never see a necessitous person go unrelieved! A History of the Moravian Church And here has he commissioned me to re-deliver you Part of the purchase-money—I mean tho' in your necessitous character of old Stanley—— MOSES. School for Scandal La Peyrade gathered, at this instant, the fruit of his comedy of legal devotion to the necessitous classes. The Lesser Bourgeoisie Fear had made them temporarily forget their hunger, but finding that the enemy had gone, they were suddenly assailed by all necessitous demands, intensified by hours of anguish. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse It must be remembered that those labourers who were able to maintain themselves and their families by means of wages were not the most necessitous members of the community. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 The lowest, least blessed fact one knows of, on which necessitous mortals have ever based themselves, seems to be the primitive one of Cannibalism: That I can devour Thee. The French Revolution "Yet the cost of so formidable a journey would be far beyond this necessitous one's means." Kai Lung's Golden Hours He was the idol of a necessitous mother, who had brought him up at the cost of the severest privations. The Purse Since then this very ill-clad and really necessitous person has devoted himself to the honourable but exceedingly arduous and in general unremunerative occupation of story-telling. The Wallet of Kai Lung He seems to tax his brother Robert with employing necessitous and greedy Catalonians to administer the affairs of his kingdom. v. Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Complete |
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