"Benefaction" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... expansion, to which human sagacity can assign no reasonable limits—that it is a capacious reservoir of authority, from which you may take, in all time to come, as occasion may serve, the means of oppression as well as of benefaction. I know that it professes at this moment to be the chosen instrument of protecting mercy, and would win upon us by its benignant smiles; but I know, too, it can frown and play the tyrant, if it be so disposed. Notwithstanding the softness which it now assumes, ...
— American Eloquence, Volume II. (of 4) - Studies In American Political History (1896) • Various
... "distressful country" when, by frequent visits, she testified an interest in it, and her gentle, motherly presence might have had a more placating influence than any "Coercion bill." The money she would have spent there,—the very crumbs that would have fallen from her table, would have been a benefaction to that ...
— Queen Victoria, her girlhood and womanhood • Grace Greenwood
... you don't think me either ungrateful or dishonourable. For seven years I have accepted one benefaction after another from you.... That was a very painful situation for me, dear child, and I scarcely believe that the circumstances, had they been known, would ever have been countenanced by a court ...
— The Indian Lily and Other Stories • Hermann Sudermann
... are returned to you with interest," Squiggs suggested. "A very creditable plan of benefaction; very creditable, indeed." ...
— Dennison Grant - A Novel of To-day • Robert Stead
... which the knowledge of the creative laws, the historic laws, the laws of kind, as they are actual in the human nature and the human life, puts into our hands? Who shall think himself competent to oppose this benefaction? Alas for such an one! let us take up a lamentation for him. He has stayed too long. The constitution of things, the universal laws of being, and the Providence of this world are against him. The track of the advancing ages goes ...
— The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded • Delia Bacon
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