Extravagancies

It is strange to see what Extravagancies we are subject to, if we follow the Career of our own Passions.

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We want some Remedy for our Extravagancies of all Kinds greatly, but this is so shocking a one, that one wou'd hope the very fear of it might cure us, as some Men have renounc'd their

A Dialogue Between Dean Swift and Tho. Prior, Esq. In the Isles of St. Patrick's Church, Dublin, On that Memorable Day, October 9th, 1753 Anonymous

Circumstance without over-bearing, it has already appear'd, not to be the Effect of his _Humility_, but of a different Motive; a Pleasure which he takes in observing the Extravagancies of others, rather than their Discretion.

An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744) Corbyn Morris

Misfortune of having this dreadful Mixture in our Circumstances; that we have all the Vices, Extravagancies, and Luxury of a rich Nation, with all the Wants, the Distresses and Despair of a poor one.

A Dialogue Between Dean Swift and Tho. Prior, Esq. In the Isles of St. Patrick's Church, Dublin, On that Memorable Day, October 9th, 1753 Anonymous

Extravagancies: To which, the wittier a Man is, he is generally the more obnoxious.

Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various

Penkethman, 150.1 who, to say the Truth, delighted more in the whimsical than the natural; therefore, when I say he sometimes resembled Leigh, I reserve this Distinction on his Master's side, that the pleasant Extravagancies of Leigh were all the Flowers of his own Fancy, while the less fertile Brain of my Friend was contented to make use of the Stock his Predecessor had left him.

An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume I 1889

There is an Argument, which tho 'not much attended to here, may be of some Weight at Home, viz. That the Government at Home ought to connive at Paper Money in the Colonies, because by indulging them in this Error, all the Silver which they acquire from Time to Time is sent to Great Britain; and by the chimaera of a fallacious Cash, Extravagancies are encouraged in favour of a great

A Discourse Concerning the Currencies of the British Plantations in America 1740

The Industrious and Frugal have Reason to withstand the raising of Money upon Taxes by a Paper Credit, because by the other Party, who are the most numerous, they are loaded with almost the whole Burthen of the Assessments; the Assessors ought to consider, that the easing of the Extravagant in their Taxes, is so much Encouragement allowed them to carry on their Extravagancies; in other Countries Extravagancies and the Extravagant are much taxed.

Postscript, To a Discourse concerning the Currencies of the British Plantations in America 1740

Some of the Massachusetts-Bay Loan, of A. 1717 is still outstanding A. 1739: The several Rhode-Island Loans do not terminate in less than 20 Years: By this unnaturalContrivance they oblige Posterity to supply the Extravagancies of their Parents and Ancestors, instead of the common and natural Instinct of Parents providing for their Children.

A Discourse Concerning the Currencies of the British Plantations in America 1740

Posterity to supply the Extravagancies of their Parents and Ancestors, instead of the common and natural Instinct of Parents providing for their Children.

A Discourse Concerning the Currencies of the British Plantations in America 1739