beneficence

• It was the unconcealable magnitude of her beneficence, and its wise quality, which made her a second time the theme of English conversation in all honest households within the four seas. —  Lady Byron Vindicated
• He first gives the warning in general terms in verse 1, and then flashes its light into three dark corners, and shows how hankering after men's praise corrupts the beneficence which is our duty to our neighbour, the devotion which is our duty to God, and the abstinence which is our duty to ourselves. —  Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII
• Boston: Ticknor and Fields If pure benevolence was ever organized and utilized into beneficence, the name of the institution is the Sanitary Commission. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863
• His heart is naturally beneficent, and his beneficence is the gift of God for the most excellent purposes, as I have often freely told him. —  Pamela, Volume II
• He uses the terms free and voluntary only with reference to spontaneous beneficence, as opposed to the compulsion of the law III.--As regards Happiness, or the Summum Bonum, he presents his scientific classification of Pleasures and Pains, without, however, indicating any plan of life, for attaining the one and avoiding the other in the best manner. —  Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics

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