I think I would have given up my hopes in another million to have been the rector at Tenthpig at that instant.
"If that be all, child," he answered, "set thy heart at rest.

Jack's money will never bring him into contempt unless through the use he may make of it.

Alas! Anna, we live in an age of corruption and cupidity! Generous motives appear to be lost sight of in the general desire of gain; and he who would manifest a disposition to a pure and disinterested philanthropy is either distrusted as a hypocrite or derided as a fool.

The accursed revolution among our neighbors the French has quite unsettled opinions, and religion itself has tottered in the wild anarchy of theories to which it has given rise.

There is no worldly advantage that has been more austerely denounced by the divine writers than riches, and yet it is fast rising to be the god of the ascendant.