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legacies
1. I imagine that we will eventually receive legacies, but that hasn’t happened yet
2. } the author who writes concerning it the least indistinctly, says, that it was imposed upon all successions, legacies and donations, in case of death, except upon those to the nearest relations, and to the poor
3. Testamentary donations, or legacies to collaterals, are subject to the like duties
4. One of the less attractive legacies Constantine has left us is that in most traditions of the western Christian church we still follow a “Roman” model
5. In Scotland, one of the great legacies of Knox and the reformers was the importance of education for both boys and girls
6. or legacies that are free from burden and transferred in
7. 9 Christianity has dared to lower its ideals before the challenge of human greed, war-madness, and the lust for power; but the religion of Jesus stands as the unsullied and transcendent spiritual summons, calling to the best there is in man to rise above all these legacies of animal evolution and, by grace, attain the moral heights of true human destiny
8. Here and now were the legacies of
9. Yet Melton and Proctor’s liberal legacies demobilized blacks worldwide and still undermine Christ’s Commission to this day
10. Transforming oneself means freeing oneself of hybris, freeing oneself of hatred, of arrogant demands, of envy and greed, which are all natural legacies of the human species, and extracting from within oneself the ability to create oneself anew as an artist of life
11. But one could observe his resignation to fate and reservations (pessimism) over the future identity of our people in the event our culture is gradually but completely phased out, to be replaced by alien cultural norms quite different and in sharp contrast with our background, our ways of life, our foundation, our ancestral legacies
12. legacies of the ancient crossroads of myths and
13. Our culture is full of legacies from the past
14. It is not the exception however, but the rule, that men must regard; and, looking at the usual result of enormous sums conferred upon legatees, the thoughtful man must shortly say, "I would as soon leave to my son a curse as the almighty dollar," and admit to himself that it is not the welfare of the children, but family pride, which inspires these legacies
15. Knowledge of the results of legacies bequeathed is not calculated to inspire the brightest hopes of much posthumous good being accomplished by them
16. My soul looked at its legacies and decides it no longer wanted these
17. Watergate and Vietnam will be Nixon’s chief legacies
18. He faltered tragically in his chief legacies
19. `The following' was a jumbled list of items of expenditure, subscriptions, donations, legacies, and collections, winding up with `the general summary showed a balance in hand of
20. asked Joe whether he had heard if any of the other relations had any legacies?
21. This will has already constituted Haidee heiress of the rest of my fortune, consisting of lands, funds in England, Austria, and Holland, furniture in my different palaces and houses, and which without the twenty millions and the legacies to my servants, may still amount to sixty millions
22. Fathers and sons, worrying about expectations and legacies, speaking but not really talking
23. What would I do? I felt like two family legacies were staring me in the face
24. Is preserving their legacies one of the biggest obstacles to people suffering from Alzheimer’s disease? What examples are there of people still respecting Alice’s wishes, and at what times is she ignored?
25. " These nearest of kin were naturally impressed with the unreasonableness of expectations in cousins and second cousins, and used their arithmetic in reckoning the large sums that small legacies might mount to, if there were too many of them
26. The second will revoked everything except the legacies to the low persons before mentioned (some alterations in these being the occasion of the codicil), and the bequest of all the land lying in Lowick parish with all the stock and household furniture, to Joshua Rigg
27. Rigg in conversation: there was no knowing how many pairs of legs the new proprietor might require hose for, and profits were more to be relied on than legacies
28. Don't we all live on the dead? What are legacies?"
29. One of the most important legacies of the Europeans’ empires has been the ethnic mix in modern Western societies and the racial and religious tensions they have so often had to deal with
30. The factor of the Grandmother's appearance in place of the hourly expected telegram to announce her death (with, of course, resultant legacies) had so upset the whole scheme of intentions and projects that it was with a decided feeling of apprehension and growing paralysis that the conspirators viewed any future performances of the old lady at roulette
31. ' Ah, they were looking for the legacies! Without money that wretched woman (what is her name?—Oh, De Cominges) would never dream of accepting the General and his false teeth—no, not even for him to be her lacquey—since she herself, they say, possesses a pile of money, and lends it on interest, and makes a good thing out of it
