Liberality

Let me now quote the opening description of Madam Liberality from the story: –

Juliana Horatia Ewing and Her Books 1885

If he bear our charges, he does too much; 'tis enough that he contribute to them: the overplus is called benefit, which cannot be exacted: for the very name Liberality sounds of Liberty.

The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 16 Michel de Montaigne 1562

If he bear our charges, he does too much; 'tis enough that he contribute to them: the overplus is called benefit, which cannot be exacted: for the very name Liberality sounds of Liberty.

The Essays of Montaigne — Complete Michel de Montaigne 1562

Those that followed Interest were distinguished in the same way; the badge of the first announced "Liberality," that of the second

Don Quixote 2002

'Liberality' is to call out for him in the best of her hacknied tones; the contest is to cease at the instant when his humour changes from mischief to melancholy; 'affetuoso' is to be the only word; and he is to be allowed his season of sacred torpidity, till the venom, new formed in the shade, make him glisten again in the sunshine he envies!

The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

"'Liberality,'" you may say: "True, there should be liberality in this eternal world.

A Strange Discovery Charles Romyn Dake

Those that followed Interest were distinguished in the same way; the badge of the first announced "Liberality," that of the second "Largess," the third "Treasure," and the fourth "Peaceful

The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Complete Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 1581

Those that followed Interest were distinguished in the same way; the badge of the first announced "Liberality," that of the second "Largess," the third "Treasure," and the fourth "Peaceful

Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 1581

As Burke observed, “the club of the Jacobins have robbed all the ecclesiastics” and justified it with the simple incantation–“Philosophy, Light, Liberality, the Rights of Men.”

The Volokh Conspiracy » Tax Exemptions as Subsidies to Churches 2009

Equally they can hardly claim to stand for Liberality; the canyon of emptiness where purpose should be, defeats attempts to claim any special territory.

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