- The Book of Misers, and
another by Jim
Colville titled Avarice and the
Avaricious. Editions:
Arabic (al-Ḥājirī, Cairo, 1958);
Arabic text,
French preface...
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appropriate mean are
punished in the
fourth circle. They
include the
avaricious or
miserly (including many "clergymen, and
popes and cardinals"), who...
- hard to make good
small films now",
Allen said in a 2004 interview. "The
avaricious studios couldn't care less
about good films—if they get a good film they're...
- 19th-century
historian W.R.W. Stephens, "affords some
illustrations of the
avaricious and
parsimonious character of the king". It
seems that
Henry was skilful...
- one
confound Popery with Christianity—the
Religion of
Liberty with the
avaricious and
sanguinary Politics of Slavery. [...] You have the duty to educate...
-
mulatto girl who
dreams of freedom, but
cannot escape the
reach of her
avaricious grandmother. Eréndira and her
grandmother make an
appearance in an earlier...
-
possible sources of income, to the
extent that he has been
described as "
avaricious, miserly,
extortionate and moneyminded". He also used
revenue generation...
- begrudging,
discontentedly yearning;
hostile and domineering; envious,
avaricious;
pleasures more in
taking than in having. Risk-taking
antisocial (including...
-
sense of
oneself - a
curtailment of what Iris
Murdoch called “the
anxious avaricious tentacles of the self”.
Among other contexts, ego
reduction has been seen...
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forced to
borrow money from
Egyptian merchants (at) ‘a very high rate’ … ‘
Avaricious people lent to them in the hope of big
profits on
their return [that is...
