Robert Fitz-Walter could not have devised a benefaction more to the taste of the intended recipients.
But now already is the benefaction No longer felt, the load alone is felt.
An honorable exile to his castles Will be a benefaction to him rather Than punishment.
Ceres a woman of Sicily, in seeking her daughter who was stolen, comes into Attica, and there teaches the Greeks to sow corn; for which Benefaction she was Deified after death.
Erechtheus being an Egyptian procured corn from Egypt, and for that benefaction was made King of Athens; and near the beginning of his Reign Ceres came into Attica from Sicily, in quest of her daughter Proserpina.
Upon this occasion He not only permitted, but ordered me to say to all Persons, and in all Companies, that he had allotted a Benefaction of 400 pounds for that Use.
At Seventieth Street is the Lenox Library, the benefaction of James Lenox, and at Eighty-second Street the Metropolitan Museum of Art, containing some of the finest collections in the world, and patterned largely after the British Museum.
His chief public benefaction was the Astor Library, which his son, William B.
An honourable exile to his castles Will be a benefaction to him rather Than punishment.
A heart bruised by misfortune is easily frightened; dread of humiliation makes us unjust; a benefaction seems like almsgiving, and consolation is nothing more than condescending pity.
Auguste tried to slink away, but old Dorfeuil held him fast while he told of all that he owed him, and finished his story by saying to Auguste: "As you see, your benefaction brought us good luck.
Two of these appear in the List of Humphrey's benefaction to Oxford; for Harl.
In the Benefaction Register they are erroneously entered as coming by the bequest of Mr. Cherry himself.
One entry in the Benefaction Register has been at one time carefully pasted over, and at another brought again to light; it is the record of a gift from Hugh Peters.
But the Benefaction Register records that they were obtained by Ray from the widow of one 'domini Dan.
It is described in the Benefaction Book as 'liber rarissimus; per totam Angliam unum hoc tantum modo exstat exemplar.
Fysher's indisposition disabled him much from the duty of his office, and that I did not think every small benefaction ought to load the velom register[211].
In the Benefaction Book this gift is entered under 1793, but it is mentioned in the Preface to vol.
In the Benefaction Book this gift is assigned to the year 1672.
A list of the Latin books thus acquired is given in the Benefaction Book, followed by this sentence: 'Porro [d.
A benefaction from Lord Crewe, Bishop of Durham, of L60 to the Librarian and of L10 for the purchase of books, appears for the first time in the Accounts for this year.
He left a benefaction to his successor in this office, which now produces L13 6s.
Every patriotic citizen, sincerely desirous of reform, should discard all prejudices and accept the benefaction from any source which is capable of providing it.
If your administration could accomplish any such result it would be a great triumph, as well as a priceless benefaction to the people of this State.
Legate's only benefaction to the university seems to have been the gift of Annotations upon the Bible (a two-volume work printed by him in London in 1651) to the University Library.
The benefaction is then not the money that is counted out to you, the present that is made you; no more than the worship of the gods consists in its fattest victims, but in the uprightness and piety of their worshipers.
The proof of this difference is that the benefaction is always a good, whilst the thing done or given is neither a good nor an evil.
Benefaction consists especially in the feeling which accompanies it, rather than in the thing given.
It is then not at the thing done and given that we must look, but at the intention, because the benefaction does not consist in the gift or in the action, but in the disposition of him who gives.
He tells us, "The Queen began her reign with a noble benefaction to the Church.
The greatness of a benefaction is rather in proportion to the number and want of the receivers, than to the liberality of the giver.
That is to say, the receiver of a benefaction in which there is nothing humiliating has increased it fifteenfold!
But here the benefaction lies only in the difference between the price paid for the work and its actual value.
In some cases a benefaction was made when persons were received into a community; thus Archbishop Wichwane as patron granted permission for a certain Gilbert and his wife to bestow their goods upon Bawtry hospital and dwell there (1281).
Matilda, daughter of Henry and Maud, left a benefaction to lepers at York.
That he was disposed to do his servants good, on important occasions, is no great mitigation; benefaction can be but rare, and tyrannick peevishness is perpetual.
It is the established practice of that college, to send every year to the earl of Exeter some poems upon sacred subjects, in acknowledgment of a benefaction enjoyed by them from the bounty of his ancestor.
With the help of the great benefaction of Mr. Hand, whose money was made in the South, and is now consecrated to the South, we shall go forward with greater zeal and encouragement.
We think they will feel that it is only honorable to let Mr. Hand's benefaction add so much new work, and that it should not be used simply to relieve others.
Balliol's original scheme of benefaction had little in common with the peculiarly English college-system inaugurated by Walter de Merton.
John Baptist Hall, after a chequered career, was refounded and endowed in 1714 as Worcester College out of the benefaction of Sir Thomas Cookes.
With this benefactionthe trustees concerned established in 1835 what they called the Wells School.
Anthony Benezet provided in his will that in the school to be established by his benefaction the girls should be taught needlework.
