opulence

• I think it did; and if so; what reason has he to suppose that that greater share of reputation, opulence, and influence which he has not, and which he desires, would, if granted him, suffice to make him happy? —  Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VII (of 8)
• They looked for the honors of opulence, and did not perceive that an emancipist must pass through oblivion to honor; and that, in this case, to distinguish is to stigmatise It was observed by Mr. Bigge, that when Macquarie made some emancipists magistrates, and professed by that dignity to restore them to the station they had lost, he forgot that they were elevated to a rank they had never filled. —  The History of Tasmania , Volume II
• Their art is a simple art, a sober art, and in its nearest approach to opulence--the sculptured portals of Saint-Trophime of Arles or Saint-Gilles-de-Languedoc--there is still a reserved rather than an exuberant and uncontrolled display of wealth Illustration: "THE SCULPTURED PORTALS OF SAINT-TROPHIME." —  Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1
• The piety of his parents was equal to their opulence, and the latter they rendered subservient to all the purposes of charity and benevolence. —  Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs
• I asked him if he agreed with St.-Just that 'opulence is an infamy.' —  France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889

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