December 13 , 1654Ancrum, Scotland October 1, 1728 New York Robert Livingston, (born Dec. 13, 1654, Ancrum, Roxburghshire, Scot. died Oct. 1, 1728, Clermont, N.Y. [U.S.]), early American landowner, politician, and merchant who founded the prominent Livingston family of New York state and laid the basis of his family's material fortune.
First, when I say that my material fortune is the result of God's blessing, it reduces The Almighty to some sort of sky-bound, wish-granting fairy who spends his days randomly bestowing cars and cash upon his followers.
His mother, Khamco, formed a brigand band to restore the political and material fortunes of the family, and Ali became a notorious brigand leader.
Like Ganesha, Bināyaka is the creator of obstacles, but when propitiated, he bestows material fortunes, prosperity, success and health.
Mrs. Ciardullo is intensely aware of her material good fortune, and of the ways space can make life easy.
The opening night audience, with only a smattering of foreigners, preened itself with displays of elegance and material good fortune.
Second, and more importantly, calling myself blessed because of material good fortune is just plain wrong.
Through karma, the idea of happiness incorporates material good fortune and virtue; a happy life is not only obtained through virtue, but constituted by virtuous actions.
Paterniti, for his part, is palpably jazzed by his material, his good fortune to have stumbled upon a proud but broken hero.
We're so spoiled by our good fortune, material and geographic, that we've never even needed a sense of scale.
This may sound like Chinese fortune cookie material, but one hears on good authority that it is a Danish proverb.
