Word: misereant
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Those who err cannot be converted all at once and forcibly. They must be gradually raised to a sense of their wrong. The miser must be shown how much good can be done with the money which he has hoarded for himself. The drunkard should be shown the necessity of good fellowship and harmony in his own family...
...easy for the scholar to be a miser, but we must come to realize that with opportunity comes duty. The selfishness of the scholar is being cast out by the age and university men are going out into the lowest classes to better them. Education frees a man from materialism, pessimism and selfishness; such education is religion and begets true Christian manhood...
...June number of the Atlantic Monthly is as bright and interesting as usual. The serial stories, "Yone Santo" and "The Despot of Broomsedge Cove" are continued, and a new one, "Miser Farrell's Bequest," by J. P. Quincy, is begun. "To Cawdor Castle and Culloden Moor," by J. C. R. Dorr, is a vivid description of that interesting place. Theodore Child contributes "The Literary Career in France," a paper which is well worth reading. "The Discovery of the Rocky Mountains." by Francis Parkman, is not only instructive but possesses the charm of the other writings of that able historian. Perhaps...
...estate of E. Price Greenleaf, the millionaire miser and bachelor, who lived for a number of years at 70 Waltham street in this city, proves to be a large donation to Harvard College, all of his property, with the exception of a few thousands, going to this institution. Nathaniel J. Bradlee, W. G. A. Pattee and William McMahon, the appraisers of the estate, have returned into Suffolk County probate their inventory. While it does not reach $1,000,000, the official appraisal makes it a large estate, which eventually, in the rise of stocks, may reach the million limit. Many...
...rich man. In 1879 Mr. Greenleaf moved from Quincy to Boston, where he took up his residence on Waltham St., in the South End. He lived in the most frugal parsimonious manner, denying himself many of the common luxuries of life, and might almost be called a miser, were not the purpose of his saving so noble. Peculiar in habits and in dress, and so frugal in the midst of his wealth, he was a mystery to many of his neighbors. Of late years he has spent his summer in the little town of Nunda, New York, where his simplicity...