Hence Ostentation here, with tawdry art, Pants for the vulgar praise which fools impart; Here Vanity assumes her pert grimace, And trims her robes of frieze with copper-lace; Here beggar Pride defrauds her daily cheer, To boast one splendid banquet once a year: The mind still turns where shifting fashion draws, Nor weighs the solid worth of self-applause.

"Tell me, Mr. Poet," continues Don Sanchez, "do you consider this steward who defrauds that child of a fortune is more unfeeling than you who, for a sickly qualm of conscience, would let slip this chance of making Molly an honest woman?" "Aye, answer that, Kit," adds Jack, striking his mug on the table.

No! the Dawn defrauds me of a great and undivided love!

Your hasty zeal defrauds the claim of justice, And disappointed vengeance burns in vain.

The Prejudice which the Publick sustains from a wrong Education of Children, is an Evil of the same Nature, as it in a manner starves Posterity, and defrauds our Country of those Persons who, with due Care, might make an eminent Figure in their respective Posts of Life.

Hence the resort to false invoices, one for the purchaser and another for the custom-house, and to other expedients to defraud the Government.

Turning up the reference in the book of cases presented to each juror, Mr. Clarkson found: "Charles Jones, 35, clerk; forging and uttering, knowing the same to be forged, a receipt for money, to wit, a receipt for fees on a plaint note of the Fulham County Court, with intent to defraud.

Alone of all the citizens, Mr. Sidney suspected that the block was intentionally set on fire to defraud the insurance-offices.

It is this tyrannical attraction to the surface, that indeed robs us of time, and defrauds us of the uses of life.

Did he teach them "not to defraud" others "in any matter" by denying them "what was just and equal?"

As though he had said, "wages are the right of laborers; those who work for you have a just claim on you for pay; this you refuse to render, and thus defraud them by keeping from them what belongs to them.

Did he teach them "not to defraud" others "in any matter" by denying them "what was just and equal?"

Does he require us in principle to regard "the laborer as worthy of his hire"; and permit us in practice to defraud him of his wages?

"Psal., xlvi, 5. "Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren."l

Strange to tell, no sooner was Peregrine presented to his mother, than she eyed him with tokens of affliction and surprise, and bursting into tears, exclaimed that her child was dead, and this was no other than an impostor whom they brought to defraud her sorrow.

Let every man control his own just rage, And nurse his vengeance for the public wrongs: For he whom selfish interests now engage Defrauds the general weal of what to it belongs.

This is what our forefathers have said; and the man who defrauds another shall be thrust down into hell; this also they have said.

But whether she reasons consciously or not, she knows she has been defrauded: and she defrauds.

The Prejudice which the Publick sustains from a wrong Education of Children, is an Evil of the same Nature, as it in a manner starves Posterity, and defrauds our Country of those Persons who, with due Care, might make an eminent Figure in their respective Posts of Life.

A man smuggles cigars or tobacco to an amount by which he saves himself twenty shillings, and defrauds the state to the same extent.

If he fills his paper with Grahamism and no governmentism, he defrauds his subscribers.

Many students, who have passed through a regular course of instruction from me, have been invalids and were healed in the class; but experience has shown that this defrauds the scholar, though it heals the sick.

What was his game?" "'Con' mostly, according to the record; only one conviction though, two years in Detroit for using the mails to defraud.

It is doubtless for our good in the long run that we lose our pocketbooks, and break our arms, and catch a fever, and have our brothers defraud a bank, and our houses burn down, and people steal our umbrellas, and borrow our books and never return them.

He selected the case of the hundred-and-thirty-two slaves who were thrown alive into the sea to defraud the underwriters.