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Many have made witty invectives against usury.
His vice was avarice, usury his delight.
Here usury is classed with every abominable wickedness.
The principle of usury greatly aggravates this tendency.
The planter himself is generally a victim to usury.
Dry Rot advances at a compound usury quite incalculable.
Sordid vice, obscure adultery; gambling, bullying, usury, hunger...
The leaders of the Protestant reformation also denounced usury.
It has long been overworked in defense of landlord usury.
There is some such gain or usury lawful and commendable.
Devour not usury, doubling and quadrupling (the sum lent).
What is the forfeiture for taking usury in this state?
In these uncertain conditions, speculation, usury and anarchy were rife.
We liquidate debts of play, and usury, from the same resources.
All fraud and deceit was abhorred, and all usury forbidden.
There is some such gain or usury unlawful and a heinous sin.
Capital is furnished at exorbitant rates of interest, and usury prevails.
The chevalier was said to employ his capital in petty usury.
It was usury in a nutshell, so infinitesimal as almost to escape detection.
He forbade usury with foreigners, and commanded the giving of alms.
You are a State usury system, a coal fiend and an exchange thief.
Ruskin's own denunciation of usury, that is, of taking interest for money.
Ought he to have yielded to the avarice which made his usury so notorious?
Those who have a home are relieved of the burden of usury by rent.
Thrift is not in any way connected with avarice, usury, greed, or selfishness.
Intoxication and usury are the two vices to which they are most addicted.
Their widespread practice of usury was a still more fruitful cause for detestation.
The preamble will sufficiently expose the view held of usury at that time.
What is it to take usury, according to the proper signification of the word?
If unlawful interest, called usury, is charged, the bank forfeits the entire interest.
They had but little commerce, and were unacquainted with the arts of usury.
The creditor loses his usury and the debtor is acquitted of his obligation.
Wage-slavery, usury, mortgages, and other abominations, indicate the advance of the mortal process.
Ah, my friend, there is one who has put out his hours at usury.
The unprofitable servant is condemned because he did not put his talent to usury.
The odious meaning of excessive interest, as attached to usury, is of comparatively recent date.
They are so mercenary that they even make slaves of their own brothers, through usury.
While in the family they are despots and not infrequently give money out at usury.
The heavy artillery from the wall had repaid its ineffectual fire with ample usury.
Laws against usury do not help such men; on the contrary they oppress them.
All this intermediate usury thus becomes sanctified by the ultimate view to the Company's payment.
Time had exacted usury and had paid no fair equivalent for the ineffable possession of youth.
Banking, usury, commerce, industry, agriculture, and labor are empirically distinguished, yet are all economic facts.
Even avarice and usury itself operated both for the preservation and the employment of national wealth.
With trade came writing and money; the inventions of debt and rent, usury and tribute.
He rigorously insisted that they should wear a distinctive dress, and at last altogether prohibited usury.
He also published astrological calendars, cast nativities, and supplemented his income by the practice of usury.
Under pretext of loans they have given themselves up to a dangerous and detestable traffic of usury.
As the planter himself, however, was subject to usury, the scheme did not give much relief.
"I do not mean," answered the parson, "that you should lend it to me on usury, but gratis."
It could be wished that all usury and the name itself were first banished from the earth.
To evade the usury laws life annuities were often sold at a low rate, redeemable for a stipulated sum.
For all the scriptures which speak against usury, speak against it as a cruel or uncharitable thing.
The bankers issue their currency, grow fat on usury, and the principles of high finance are vindicated.
I was compelled to borrow money at exorbitant usury; that loved heritage passed into the hands of strangers.
The small farmers, oppressed with debt and usury, parted with their lands to their wealthy creditors.
Those who defend the fraud of usury always take to cover behind the widow and the fatherless.
While usury remains, which is an ever active centralizing force adding wealth to wealth, no remedy can be found.
Though they would not condescend to trade for gain, they were prepared to pocket the profits of usury.
This animal puts them out to usury in play; that animal keeps them laid up in the napkin of inactivity.
Unselfish patriotism must abolish usury by substituting the credit of all the people for that of the banks.
"I have defrauded no one, I have taken no money upon usury, I have been true to the living, true to the dead."
It is true that you are our masters, but we know how to repay with usury, anything like cruelty or ill-treatment.
He was a man little liked, suspected of adultery and usury, but admired by everyone for his theological erudition.
Early education and natural buoyancy have led the debtors to be less sensitive to the burdens of usury upon them.
Who knows but fortune waits upon my getting off this dangerous shelf, to compensate my shipwreck with usury?
It is an unwarranted broadening to make it a permission to exact usury from all the human race except from Hebrews.
I have not so perverted my soul nor palsied my brain as to expect to be advantaged by that adhesion (usury).
By usury a tribute is levied on his bread from the wheat in the field until it reaches his tables.
They were thus at last put out to usury, after many years of gathering "rust" in hoarded idleness and uselessness.
Even as late as the first half of the thirteenth century there was no serious discussion of usury by the theologians.
Her merchants only fall by their own increasing avarice; and above all by the mercantile form of pillage, usury.
He only knew that she was exceedingly cordial to him, and it was his nature to repay cordiality with usury.
He who acting otherwise seeks only the pecuniary recompense of his work does ill, and his labors are but usury.
Its consequence was the natural one: she borrowed; but she borrowed upon bad terms, indeed on the most exorbitant usury.
He speaks of the reduction of the usury rates as a general good and believes "It will no whit discourage the lender."
Lent him money on usury, bought up his bills and his mortgages and when he couldn't pay foreclosed on him.
On that score of gain forfeited he may exact interest on the money that he lends, which interest will be no usury.
For all his great wealth, he was very stingy and greedy; he even lent money at usury to his best friends.
It would not be easy to give a list of more gross and flagrant sins than those associated with usury in this passage.
That no man should thenceforth lend money out to usury upon covenants for the body to be bound, if it were not repaid.
It is the truth that I lent money at a high rate of interest; but it is a foul calumny to accuse me of deceitful usury.
The little is much to the frugal and industrious; and the least most to him who puts that little to loving usury.
I had my share of the good things of this world; and was even recompensed with usury for the hardships I had suffered.
He invested in the traffic of usury what had sufficed to save a hundred such as I am from perdition, and he lost it all.
Though the race may increase in intelligence and theoretically have correct views of personal freedom and civil liberty, yet the conditions produced necessarily by usury utterly prevent their realization.
We believe that unlimited responsibility was really founded on the old prejudices against usury or interest; and as these prejudices are fast disappearing, we may hope speedily to see this relic of their operation removed.
You shall find usury reigning throughout their traffic; and that they who have no stings of conscience, in relation to unjust dealings, have by indirect ways scraped together the greatest part of their estates.
Say on the same subject, and it has the merit of containing an explanation at once singularly patient and singularly intelligent, of the origin of the popular feeling about usury and its adoption by the legislator.
Their business and contracts were for the greater part illegal, filled with usury, interest, and tricks; for each one thought only of increasing his own profits, and paid no attention to his nearest relatives.
The whole discussion on usury turned on the distinction which was drawn between things of which the use could be transferred without the ownership, and things of which the use could not be so transferred.
What prevents our supposing that usury, when it first made its appearance on the scene, before people had learned to draw the distinction between crimes and defaults, presented itself in a very coarse and cruel form?
The first division contains the history of his labors in rebuilding the walls of the city and putting an end to the practice of usury, and of the violent opposition and intrigues of the surrounding people.
He felt what men often feel when death is present: the body had been put out to usury; at the end of the trafficking it belonged to women, as it had belonged to a woman before the trafficking commenced.
In spite of the evident advantages derived from their presence in England, their wealth, their foreign manners, their high usury, and their strange worship rendered them objects at once of contempt and hatred to the people.
All we are concerned to do in the following pages is to indicate the grounds on which the prohibition of usury rested, the precise extent of its application, and the conceptions of economic theory which it indicated and involved.
He advocated a usury law, and hazarded the extraordinary argument that "in cases of extreme necessity there could always be means found to cheat the law; while in all other cases it would have its intended effect."
Their place was supplied by men who had long suffered oppression, and who, finding themselves suddenly transformed from slaves into masters, were impatient to pay back, with accumulated usury, the heavy debt of injuries and insults.
Although the interest on this account be greater than the law commonly allows, it is yet not esteemed usury; because the money being supplied at the lenders risk, if the ship perishes, he shares in the loss thereof.
For this reason they were favored by governments in most of the large cities; but in the course of time they became objects of universal hatred, because they exercised the most oppressive usury, by lending at interest and on pledges.