- The Book of Misers, and
another by Jim
Colville titled Avarice and the
Avaricious. Editions:
Arabic (al-Ḥājirī, Cairo, 1958);
Arabic text,
French preface...
-
meets Pope
Adrian V in the
fifth terrace of
Purgatorio (reserved for the
avaricious and the prodigal)
where Adrian V
cleanses for the vice of
avarice (Purgatorio...
-
appropriate mean are
punished in the
fourth circle. They
include the
avaricious or
miserly (including many "clergymen, and
popes and cardinals"), who...
- 19th-century
historian W.R.W. Stephens, "affords some
illustrations of the
avaricious and
parsimonious character of the king". It
seems that
Henry was skilful...
- hard to make good
small films now",
Allen said in a 2004 interview. "The
avaricious studios couldn't care less
about good films—if they get a good film they're...
- and retain. All the
princes of the late 14th
century were
accused of
avaricious money-grubbing by
contemporary critics, but
among them contemporaries...
-
possible sources of income, to the
extent that he has been
described as "
avaricious, miserly,
extortionate and moneyminded". He also used
revenue generation...
- one
confound Popery with Christianity—the
Religion of
Liberty with the
avaricious and
sanguinary Politics of Slavery. [...] You have the duty to educate...
-
mulatto girl who
dreams of freedom, but
cannot escape the
reach of her
avaricious grandmother. Eréndira and her
grandmother make an
appearance in an earlier...
- begrudging,
discontentedly yearning;
hostile and domineering; envious,
avaricious;
pleasures more in
taking than in having. Risk-taking
antisocial (including...
