Benefits

Examples

• Then Osborne had the intolerable sense of former benefits to goad and irritate him: these are always a cause of hostility aggravated. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• While the benefits derived were not directly pecuniary in their nature, they were such as tended to strengthen commercially the position of the rightful owners of the patents. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• They cling to some arrangement, hoping against experience that a government freed from human nature will automatically produce human benefits. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Here again was given a most convincing demonstration of the truth that such an addition to the resources of mankind always carries with it unsuspected benefits even for its enemies. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• She would take no more benefits from us; she would fling us her name back again, and she would go. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• He can have no right to the benefits of society who will not pay his club towards the support of it. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The result is I have never enjoyed any benefits from my lamp patents, although I fought for many years. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Its benefits were intercepted by the bigger private owners. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And gratitude was all that she had to pay back for such admirable devotion and benefits--only gratitude! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• They bring him in such vast sums of money that they are regarded as--hum--national benefits. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Rawdon was obliged to confess that he owed all these benefits to his wife, and to trust himself to her guidance for the future. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• This artful allusion to benefits conferred brought Tupman to his feet, looking as if he had quite made up his mind. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• There were old scores she could pay off as well as old benefits she could return. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• The ordinary and open flowers can be intercrossed; and the benefits which certainly are derived from this process are thus secured. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Dear friend, she exclaimed, in a transport of enthusiasm, some hearts can never forget benefits; all women are not Bute Crawleys! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Fourdrinier, a wealthy stationery firm, purchased the patents, expended ￡60,000 for improvements on the machine, and first gave to the world its practical benefits. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It may have shown a want of proper pride in Amelia that she chose to accept these money benefits at the hands of her father's enemy. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• She felt the frivolity of pleasure and longed for more substantial benefits. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Ah, you ought to have a lecture every day if it benefits you in this way. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• What benefits or what misfortunes to mankind may hereafter result from those great events, no human wisdom can foresee. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Handel, said Herbert, stopping, you feel convinced that you can take no further benefits from him; do you? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Every man's hand would be against his neighbour in this case, my dear sir, and the benefits of civilization would be done away with. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• That we should govern justly and that all should participate in the benefits according as they have striven for them. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Between whatever places foreign trade is carried on, they all of them derive two distinct benefits from it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Well, in spite of the benefits conferred, it is to be hoped Hephaistos won't interfere this time with his earthquakes. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• A man whom he had loaded with benefits and regarded with affection had subjected him to the foulest indignity. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• What are benefits, what is constancy, or merit? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

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