Illiberality, jealousy, and local policy mix too much in all our public councils for good government of the union.

Swift has hit off this part of their character, namely their love of truth, in his biting way, but with an illiberality that necessarily confines the passage to the margin.

When this epitaph first appeared in the newspapers, Mr. Boswell answered it by another upon Mr. Jenyns, equal, at least, in illiberality.

' Having availed myself of this editor's eulogy on my departed friend, for which I warmly thank him, let me not suffer the lustre of his reputation, honestly acquired by profound learning and vigorous eloquence, to be tarnished by a charge of illiberality.

Let it be remembered by those who accuse Dr. Johnson of illiberality that both were Scotchmen.

The colonel complained of such illiberality, as to make personal attacks on that gentleman before a friend who held him in high estimation.

I went there to worship on the following Sunday, but was obliged to leave the building, there being, it was stated by the apparitor, no accommodation for strangers, a piece of illiberality that I considered very much in keeping with the slave-holding opinions of the worshippers who attend it.

Parsimony N. parsimony, parcity^; parsimoniousness^, stinginess &c adj.; stint; illiberality, tenacity.

illiberality; meanness &c adj.. time-pleaser, time-server; tuft- hunter, fortune-hunter; jobber, worldling; egotist, egoist, monopolist, nepotist; dog in the manger, charity that begins at home; canis in praesepi [Lat.], foes to nobleness, temporizer, trimmer.

Elizabeth's illiberality towards her seamen may be judged from the fact that in her reign their pay was certainly increased once and perhaps twice.

" I have introduced here and at other times Morse's strictures on the Roman Catholic religion, and on other subjects, without comment on my part, even when these strictures seem to verge on illiberality.

" More illiberality and deliberate injustice has been seldom condensed within so small a compass.

I replied in the papers, pointing out the gross illiberality of the attack, and tried to provoke a discovery of the authors.

Upon lying down at night I had felt my own illiberality in not making it possible for him to realize his desire.

We may, therefore, conclude that whatever vicious impotence women are under, it is acquired, not natural; nor derived from any illiberality of God's, but from the ill-managery of his bounty.

Its illiberality and untruth render it very unfit for a "Family Library," for which it was composed.