The Heidenmauer : Or, the Benedictines : a Legend of the Rhine
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He was, in short, on a diminished scale, one of those examples of desertion from the ranks of mankind to the corps cT elite of the lucky, that we constantly witness among the worldly and fortunate. While a youth, he had been sufficiently consider- THE HEIDENMAUER. 149 ate for the burdens and difficulties of the unhappy ; but a marriage with a small heiress, and subsequent successes, had gradually brought him to a view of things that was more in unison with his own particular interests than it w...as either philosophical or Christian-like. He was a firm believer in that dictum which says none but the wealthy have sufficient interest in society to be entrusted with its control, though his own instinct might have detected the sophistry, since he was daily vacillating between opposing principles, just as they happened to affect his own particular concerns. Heinrich Frey gave freely to the mendicant, and to the industrious; but when it came to be a question of any serious melioration of the lot of either, he shook his head in a manner to imply a mysterious political economy, and uttered shrewd remarks on the bases of society, and of things as they were established.
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He was, in short, on a diminished scale, one of those examples of desertion from the ranks of mankind to the corps cT elite of the lucky, that we constantly witness among the worldly and fortunate. While a youth, he had been sufficiently consider- THE HEIDENMAUER. 149 ate for the burdens and difficulties of the unhappy ; but a marriage with a small heiress, and subsequent successes, had gradually brought him to a view of things that was more in unison with his own particular interests than it w...as either philosophical or Christian-like. He was a firm believer in that dictum which says none but the wealthy have sufficient interest in society to be entrusted with its control, though his own instinct might have detected the sophistry, since he was daily vacillating between opposing principles, just as they happened to affect his own particular concerns. Heinrich Frey gave freely to the mendicant, and to the industrious; but when it came to be a question of any serious melioration of the lot of either, he shook his head in a manner to imply a mysterious political economy, and uttered shrewd remarks on the bases of society, and of things as they were established.
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