Sentences with phrase «which beggars»

It is a world in which beggars are more at home than the wealthy, sinners more than the righteous, children more than their parents, and clowns and fools more than priests and scribes.

If he had found a lot to admire in the Italian way of life there was plenty to criticise in the Christian life - style here: casual priests, wheeling and dealing for preferment on a scale which beggared the German scene, prostitutes, a general lack of seriousness.

Not exact matches

But this servant - form is no mere outer garment, like the king's beggar - cloak, which therefore flutters loosely about him and betrays the king; it is not like the filmy summer - cloak of Socrates, which though woven of nothing yet both conceals and reveals.

They speak of me with scorn, calling me beggar - woman or witch or harlot; but their words are at variance with life, and the pharisees who condemn me, waste away in the outlook to which they confine themselves; they die of inanition and their disciples desert them because I am the essence of all that is tangible, and men can not do without me.

In their presence would you dare frankly to confess that that which you desire in the world, in which you sought your consolation, certain that the king in his majesty would not despise you even though you were a man of inferior rank; certain that the beggar would not go away envious that he could not have the same consolation; certain that the man like yourself would be pleased by your frankness?

This option, offensive not only to us but already to Matthew, motivated him both to insert «Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven» and also, at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount (the Beatitudes pronounced on the poor and hungry), to add that God's blessing has to do with the «poor in spirit,» who «hunger and thirst after righteousness,» not simply with hungry beggars, which is what the Greek word translated «poor» actually means.

• The confusion of «success» with sheer wealth by individuals, businesses, and corporate boards, which empties economic life of its vocational nobility and inculcates a counter-ethic of beggar - thy - neighbor competition that's a grave danger to markets and a threat to the capacity of free enterprise to help people lift themselves from poverty.

John Gay in his Beggar's Opera notes that «A covetous fellow, like a jackdaw, steals what he was never made to enjoy, for the sake of hiding it» Ancient Greek authors tell how a jackdaw, being a social creature, may be caught with a dish of oil which it falls into while looking at its own reflection.

But Jesus was more accepting of women, children, aliens, beggars, leppers and even sexual minorities than OT practice, which I think represents a greater inclusiveness which should lead us to believe that love / protection /» rights» be extended to these vulnerable groups and not just the priveledge adult male population.

Similarly, while the mainstream Enlightenment (which privileged order, good behaviour and obedience) frequently sought harsh remedies for beggars, runaway slaves and other undesirables, Catholic religious houses could provide beacons of mercy and refuge, and moralists such as St Alphonsus Ligori sought to develop a theology which did real justice to the complexities of human life.

He had waited long enough for the promises which God had made even to blind beggars.

Consequently I am tired of this city... I shall keep on the move and would rather eat the bread of a beggar than torture and upset my old age and final days with the filth at Wittenberg which destroys my hard and faithful work.

But among the last was a note on his desk, which ended «The truth is, we are beggars.»

Each beggar had his own special spot from which to beg, and such persons often had quite a good income from begging.

Even his moniker «Scouse Cafu»... was made up by a scouser no less... as an insult at his ability... which has morphed into something completely improbable and insane... that it beggars belief anyone who has ever seen the real Cafu... would laugh at the comparison!!!

In which case their incompetence is so colossal that it should cause widespread panic, except that it beggars belief.

Take Nottingham city council, which produced a series of adverts which urged people not to give money to beggars.

At King's Times Square presser this week to announce his proposal to regulate the beggars who dress like cartoon characters, one passerby shouted out, «Which character are you?»

Citing what he says is the situation in Kenya, Dr Draman said when MPs leave office in few months they become beggars, disillusioned and some die because they do not fulfill their main reason for going to Parliament which is to get ministerial appointment.

cartoon that used to hang on Jerry Cohen's wall in which a rich man meets and refuses a beggar's request with the words «Go inherit your own wealth!»

I certainly remember looking at the lowest plans when this fiasco started, which would have beggared me, but didn't even cover doctor co-pays.

The next song is one which truly grew on me after multiple listens and it is easily my second favorite on the album «Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor Rich Man Poor Man Beggar Man Thief».

Wellman's son William Wellman, Jr. delivers audio commentary on Kino Lorber's upcoming home video release of Beggars of Life, which utilizes the best print of the film known to exist, the 35 mm version preserved at George Eastman Museum.

For example, Begscape (built with Twine, which I'll discuss later), puts the reader in the role of a beggar.

... except for «all idiots, imbeciles, feeble - minded persons, epileptics, insane persons; persons who have had one or more attacks of insanity at any time previously; persons of constitutional psychopathic inferiority; persons with chronic alcoholism; paupers; professional beggars; vagrants; persons afflicted with tuberculosis in any form or with a loathsome or dangerous contagious disease; persons not comprehended within any of the foregoing excluded classes who are found to be and are certified by the examining surgeon as being mentally or physically defective, such physical defect being of a nature which may affect the ability of such alien to earn a living; persons who have been convicted of or admit having committed a felony or other crime or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude; polygamists, or persons who practice polygamy or believe in or advocate the practice of polygamy; anarchists, or persons who believe in or advocate the overthrow by force or violence of the Government of the United States.»

But one day we must come to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.

The twentieth - century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which as beggar is a reminder of nothing.

The next four books down, which I'll read in no particular order, just whichever fits my mood, are Dave Eggers» A Hologram for the King (I'm a huge fan); Margaret Maron's One Coffee With (I'm so glad that Oconee Spirit Press just reissued this long out of print title); Fountain of Age, a collection of stories by Nancy Kress (I really enjoyed her novel Beggars in Spain); and China Mieville's Railsea (I loved Un Lun Don, and this is another novel for kids).

We await the moment where the majority of assets no longer trust the US Dollar, which would have been sooner than this, but most major nations have compromised their currencies to satisfy politically important exporters, in this «beggar thy neighbor» world, importing asset bubbles in their wake.

9) One of the things many travelers to India find challenging is the poverty and desperation they see, which leads us to the thorny issue of dealing with beggars.

AT - ST massacres, a race through the Endor forests on a swoop bike and sight - seeing over Beggar's Canyon on Tatooine are a few of the attractions as well as Battle mode, which works similar to COD's Kill Confirmed.

The paparazzi scumbag motorcyclist, the abusive fitness freak at the beach, the bounty hunters in Blaine, the beggars on the street, the odd couple yelling about which movie they should see — the density and detail of these NPCs bring Los Santos to life and makes players feel like a part of it.

A major group of Guston's lush abstractions from the 1950s and 1960s anchor the center of the exhibition with works such as To B.W.T. (1952), Painting (1954), Zone (1953 — 54), Beggar's Joys (1954 — 55) and For M (1955), in which rich, delicately applied brushstrokes come together to suggest floating, abstract forms.

Similarly, the attention which began to be paid to the more desperate inhabitants of society such as beggars, young homeless boys and flower sellers during the 17th century also had no political subtext.

Perhaps somewhere a «B» movie script writer and a failed Enquirer reporter are somewhere in a lonely writers garret producing the scripts which these fellows are dutifully reading and acting out... any other explanation beggars the imagination.