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beneficence
1. On one side are the masses marked out to kneel at the altar of government beneficence
2. It requires beneficence
3. 9 And we remark the boastfulness of their might; though they deny the beneficence of God who gave it to them but they shall pass away as a passing cloud
4. Quiet, insecure boys were the deserving recipients of her beneficence
5. 4 "Intelligent children do not fear their father in order that they may receive good gifts from his hand; but having already received the abundance of good things bestowed by the dictates of the father's affection for his sons and daughters, these much loved children are led to love their father in responsive recognition and appreciation of such munificent beneficence
6. The goodness of God leads to repentance; the beneficence of God leads to service; the mercy of God leads to salvation; while the love of God leads to intelligent and freehearted worship
7. To prevent the slaughterer’s spirit from the impression of severity and the rise of abysses of murder and criminality, and lest he gets used to shed blood and becomes imprinted by such impressions through which he likes the view of blood and enjoys bloodshed, therefore, pronouncing Al’lah’s Name over the animal when slaughtering is considered as a mercy because, when the slaughterer knows that it is mere beneficence and comfort for the animal, his spirit acquires mercifulness
8. Similarly tolerance, beneficence and
9. his temper, it will not be beneficence to the three of you
10. Halloween preminds the child in masquerade, fear, threat and death, entitlement and extortion, solicitation and reception of beneficence, lust, whording, gluttony, and gastronomical excess
11. Under rancor lay preference, selfishness, envy, jealousy and all the personal descriptions that should be replaced by social values like altruism, cordiality, beneficence and mercy
12. terms of their beneficence to the whole, and to oneself by the same token
13. It is, no doubt, possible that my own personal experience may have led me to value a free library beyond all other forms of beneficence
14. A form of beneficence which is not uncommon there is providing swimming-baths for the people
15. Now and then whole nations cry aloud for vengeance on flagrant offenders, as if conscious that the new legislative idea of universal beneficence did not correspond with the realities of the moral world
16. It is not 'the ghost of the dead Roman Empire sitting crowned upon the grave thereof,' but the legitimate heir and successor of it, justified by the ancient virtues of the Romans and the beneficence of their rule
17. If, for example, there were any who had been the cause of many deaths, or had betrayed or enslaved cities or armies, or been guilty of any other evil behaviour, for each and all of their offences they received punishment ten times over, and the rewards of beneficence and justice and holiness were in the same proportion
18. The soul requires purity, but purity is not it; requires justice, but justice is not that; requires beneficence, but is somewhat better; so that there is a kind of descent and accommodation felt when we leave speaking of moral
19. Hester had often fancied that Providence had a design of justice and retribution, in endowing the child with this marked propensity; but never, until now, had she bethought herself to ask, whether, linked with that design, there might not likewise be a purpose of mercy and beneficence
20. Then, finally, it descended into the relatively cool, green beneficence of the Puget Sound region, perhaps the only region in America that was not sweltering that summer
21. Bulstrode's power was not due simply to his being a country banker, who knew the financial secrets of most traders in the town and could touch the springs of their credit; it was fortified by a beneficence that was at once ready and severe—ready to confer obligations, and severe in watching the result
22. In such an hour the mind does not change its lifelong bias, but carries it onward in imagination to the other side of death, gazing backward—perhaps with the divine calm of beneficence, perhaps with the petty anxieties of selfassertion
23. Many of us looking back through life would say that the kindest man we have ever known has been a medical man, or perhaps that surgeon whose fine tact, directed by deeply informed perception, has come to us in our need with a more sublime beneficence than that of miracle-workers
24. motives for his sudden beneficence following close upon the chillest indifference might be merely selfish
25. ” Madame Hohlakov cut him short, with the modest triumph of beneficence: “I have promised to save you, and I will save you
26. Serious, old, clever, good men, who, above all else, stand like the city on a hill, and who involuntarily guide the masses by their example, make it appear that the legality and beneficence of patriotism are so obvious and incontestable that it is not worth while to answer the frivolous and senseless attacks upon this sentiment, and the majority of men, who have since childhood been deceived and infected by patriotism, take this supercilious silence to be a most convincing proof, and continue to stick fast in their ignorance
27. No; it was intended by this bounty to make us a great commercial people; and shall we ungratefully reject the enjoyment of his unexampled beneficence? No, it has not and will not be neglected
28. The purposes of Providence relative to the destination of men are to be gathered from the circumstances in which his beneficence has placed them; and to refuse to make use of the means of prosperity which his goodness has put into our hands, what is it but spurning at his bounty, and rejecting the blessings which his infinite wisdom has designated for us, by the very nature of his allotments? The employments of industry, connected with navigation and commercial enterprise, are precious to the people of that quarter of the country, by ancient prejudice, not less than recent profit
29. There is call for great patience, for far-reaching plans, for large beneficence
