After all, who wants to see a smart and personable woman like Helena keep humiliating herself by running after a cowardly skirt chaser like Bertram? "I cannot reconcile my heart to Bertram, a man noble without generosity," wrote Samuel Johnson.
"A man noble without generosity, and young without truth, who... defends himself by falsehood and is dismissed to happiness" is how he summed up the object of Helena's desire.
Many Salonicians were heavily insured with British Insurance Companies, who paid up the full amounts at once, much to the amazement of the inhabitants, who thought it a wonderful and noble act of generosity.
"You may wish to consider whether he did this as an act of generosity or for less noble reasons," Wright said.
God Bless Mandela for his consideration n' generosity, for foreseeing this noble event and kicking the bucket (too soon?) allowing us this, not unlike the Superbowl, historic, heroic n' amazing event!
Despite Noble's apparent misanthropy, there is a generosity of spirit that reminds us maybe we can join the dance.
Young Arthur moved to the South and came to love Southerners, writing home about "those noble traits of character for which Virginians are so distinguished: hospitality, generosity and a high sense of honor".
Both, in essence are correct and incorrect at the same time, because human beings have both greed and generosity, love and hate, so all humans have both noble and corrupt virtues.
Instead of studying normal childhood generosity, they decided to explore what happens to our noblest impulses under severe environmental insult.
To address national problems, we can't look to neighborhood associations in which every noble philanthropist is personally acquainted with the recipients of his or her lofty generosity.
