16 Metaphors for benefited

The numbers to whom any real and perceptible good or evil can be derived by the greatest power, or most active diligence, are inconsiderable; and where neither benefit nor mischief operate, the only motive to the mention or remembrance of others is curiosity; a passion, which, though in some degree universally associated to reason, is easily confined, overborne, or diverted from any particular object.

In turning from the working-classes as a whole to the poor, it becomes evident that the most substantial benefit they have received from falling prices is cheap bread.

His own benefit is the residuum after this double distillation of moral motivea mere accident."

The third benefit was the development of the Roman law into a great body of legal precepts and principles leavened throughout with ethical principles of universal applicability, and the gradual substitution of this Roman law for the innumerable local usages of ancient communities.

The benefits of the Constitution of the United States, were the restoration of credit and reputation, to the countrythe revival of commerce, navigation, and ship-buildingthe acquisition of the means of discharging the debts of the Revolution, and the protection and encouragement of the infant and drooping manufactures of the country.

The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies.

Instead of taking the ground, that the benefit of the whole Union was the sole object of a federal district, that it was designed to guard and promote the interests of all the states, and that it was to be legislated over for this endthe resolution proceeds upon an hypothesis totally the reverse.

Of what benefit is a smattering of foreign language, except to make people ridiculous?

We could, in short, bring the people to ask the Government, For whose benefit is this war?

British Heavy guns had never fired under such conditions before and, for the benefit of such of my readers as may be practical Artillerymen, it may be interesting to remark that for one of our targets the angle of sight, properly so called, worked out at more than twenty degrees, while the map-range elevation was only about fifteen.

" One particular recommendation I would propose in concluding this subject, from the observance of which much benefit has been derivedit is to sleep in a room as large and as airy as possible, and in a bed but little encumbered with curtains.

A more public and national benefit was the assistance given by Mrs. Fry to those who sought revision of the penal code by Parliament.

It should be noted, too, that The Benefit of the Doubt is a three-act play, and that, in a play laid out on this scale, a whole act of anticlimax is necessarily disproportionate.

The second benefit was the mingling and mutual destruction of the primitive tribal and municipal religions, thus clearing the way for Christianity,a step which, regarded from a purely political point of view, was of immense importance for the further consolidation of society in Europe.

Those, and strong emetic herbs, which he forced his patient to repeat until he fainted away, constituted the medical treatment of Tisquantum: but much greater benefit was expectedand, such is the power of imagination in these ignorant savages, that it was often attainedfrom the practice of his charms and conjurations.

For benefits are like flowers, sweet only and fresh when they are newly gathered, but stink when they grow stale and wither; and he only is ungrateful who makes returns of obligations, for he does it merely to free himself from owing so much as thanks.

16 Metaphors for  benefited