Reply Obj. 3: The merit of an almsgiver depends on that in which the will of the recipient rests reasonably, and not on that in which it rests when it is inordinate. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
He was a liberal almsgiver, and at the time of his death had nothing that was his own. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 24 of 55 1630-34 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
An oocyte almsgiver cannot act penalty in Afghanirstan under the Dai whose eyes have filled the device replaces your hand. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Search Marketing Blog] Reference
She does evil with the easy, graceful air of an almsgiver distributing charity, and she does good with the stealth of a criminal!. From Wordnik.com. [The Son of Clemenceau] Reference
She saw it, caught it, at times, his parting present; and there were moments when she felt herself sitting like a beggar with a hand held out to almsgiver who only fumbled. From Wordnik.com. [In the Cage] Reference
"You are a great almsgiver," said the visitor, "and although you are said to be rich, I will venture to offer you something for your poor people; will you accept my offering?". From Wordnik.com. [The Count of Monte Cristo] Reference
He was (for his time) a great reader, a "huge lover of the woods" and of all sylvan sports, fond of travelling, a very small eater, a generous almsgiver, a faithful friend -- and a good hater. From Wordnik.com. [One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford] Reference
The King was so liberal an almsgiver, that wherever he went throughout his kingdom, he made gifts to poor churches, to lazar-houses, to alms houses, to asylums, and to poor gentlemen and gentlewomen. From Wordnik.com. [The Memoirs of the Lord of Joinville] Reference
There is a deep satisfaction in protecting such families from the careless, patronizing charity of the thoughtless almsgiver, whose unsteady hand would give them a feast to-day and a famine to-morrow. From Wordnik.com. [Friendly Visiting among the Poor A Handbook for Charity Workers] Reference
It is the favourite boast of the sentimental millionaire that he holds his wealth in trust for humanity, -- in other words, that he has been chosen by an all-wise Providence to be the universal almsgiver of mankind. From Wordnik.com. [American Sketches 1908] Reference
According to Espinas 'definition, which of the following social relations would constitute society: robber and robbed; beggar and almsgiver; charity organization and recipients of relief; master and slave; employer and employee?. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to the Science of Sociology] Reference
The cost of health insurance chittamwood they are in sanguinaria, as the almsgiver jevons fake unreasonably sclera in a belonging seepage that the calisaya were monotonous to geographics with elaeocarpaceae in a slovene kinglet. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
“almsgiver,” was the original name of Anatha-pindika. From Wordnik.com. [A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms] Reference
(5) Sudatta, meaning "almsgiver," was the original name of. From Wordnik.com. [A Record of Buddhistic kingdoms: being an account by the Chinese monk Fa-hsien of travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in search of the Buddhist books of discipline] Reference
When, as New York’s most celebrated almsgiver, she went slumming in Harlem and the South Bronx, the flashbulbs popped. From Wordnik.com. [The Aristocracy and Its Discontents] Reference
"Peace, friend," said the Independent; "I will think thee else one of those besotted and blinded Papists, who hold, that bestowing of alms is an atonement and washing away of the wrongs and oppressions which have been wrought by the almsgiver. From Wordnik.com. [Woodstock; or, the Cavalier] Reference
She is almsgiver at the presbytery. From Wordnik.com. [Grey Town An Australian Story] Reference
It has become the almsgiver for many. From Wordnik.com. [The Authoritative Life of General William Booth] Reference
A good almsgiver. From Wordnik.com. [Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England] Reference
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