10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PURSE-PROUD»
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purse-proud in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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The Complete English Tradesman: In Familiar Letters; ...
Indeed, sometimes we fee a most incongruous, monstrous Piece of trading
Foppery, viz. we fee a Tradesman Purse-proud, and not have the Purse neither ;
the Man first fancies himself rich, and then indulges the Vanity of it : Such a Man
may ...
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Encyclopaedia Londinensis
The insolence of a purse-proud persom-Purse-pride is quarellous, domineering
over the humble neighbourhood, and raising quarrels out of trifles. Bp. Hall.
PURSE-PROUD, day. Puffed up with money. The second are purse-proud : as St.
... heart and a beggers purse. 1670: Ray, 133 ['mind' for 'heart']. 1732: Fuller, 369,
A proud mind and a poor purse are ill met. Ibid., No. 6386, There's nothing
agrees worse, Than a prince's heart, and a beggar's purse. Proud horse that will
not ...
George Latimer Apperson, Martin H. Manser, Stephen J. Curtis,
2005
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Encyclopaedia Londinensis, or, Universal dictionary of arts, ...
The insolence of a purse-proud person. — Purse-prideis quarellous,
domineeringoverthe humble neighbourhood, and raising quarrels out of trifles.
Bp. Hail. PUUSE-PROUD, cdj. Puffed up with money. The second are purse-
proud : as St.
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Our Crowd: The Great Jewish Families of New York
17. -. "THE. HAUGHTY. AND. PURSE-PROUD. ROTHSCHILDS". There was one
area in which August Belmont excelled. Its name was Rothschild. Belmont was
not a spectacular, brilliant, or even "interesting" financier. He made few, if any, ...
6
Works of Maria Edgeworth: Parent's assistant. Comic dramas. 1826
Very true, but I'm not purse-proud. Wheel. You purse-proud ! I should never have
thought of such- a thing. Burs. Nor I, if Talbot had not used the word. Wheel. But
Talbot thinks every body purse-proud, that has a purse. Burs. (aside) Well, this ...
Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth,
1826
Very true, but I'm not purse- proud. . Wheel. You purse-proud ! I should never
have thought of such a thing. Burs. Nor I, if Talbot had not used the word. Wheel.
But Talbot thinks every body purse-proud that has a purse. Burs. (aside) Well, this
...
Very true, but I'm not purse-proud. Wheel. You purse-proud ! 1 should never have
thought of such a thing. Burs. Nor I, if Talbot had not used the word. Wheel. But
Talbot thinks every body purse-proud, that has a purse. Burs. (aside) Well, this ...
Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth,
1826
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The London encyclopaedia: or, Universal dictionary of ...
Lat bursa; Purse'proud, adj. J Wei. piers. A small bag in which money is
contained : a net closed by a string, like a purse : to put into, or contract as, a
purse; purse-proud is, puffed up with riches. He sent certain of the chief prisoners
, richly ...
10
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
"A cheap purse-proud set they are," said Johnson, "not half as good as the man
who earns his bread by the sweat of his brow." Brownlow insisted that east
Tennessee yeomen "can never live in a Southern Confederacy and be made
hewers of ...
9 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PURSE-PROUD»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
purse-proud is used in the context of the following news items.
Eye on Sana'a
The kingdom, pragmatic and plugged into the global economy, was heavy with dollars and purse-proud. A measure of its power was experienced when it ... «The Indian Express, Apr 15»
How Has Fiction Handled the Theme of Money?
A reactionary like Balzac could alchemize his hatred for the “purse-proud impertinence” of the bourgeois. Left-leaning writers like Theodore Dreiser and Upton ... «New York Times, Apr 14»
How Cars Drive Inequality
A 1904 edition of the US farm magazine, Breeders Gazette, called automobile drivers, “a reckless, bloodthirsty, villainous lot of purse-proud crazy trespassers” ... «CounterPunch, Aug 13»
Clarke faces tough task as new Tesco Ireland boss
Traditionally, purse-proud Irish shoppers preferred branded products to supermarkets' private label. However, the recession has forced Irish consumers to look ... «Irish Independent, Jun 13»
Lip-sync singers earn highly, instrumentalists earn less than chars
Readers are fed up with the stupid mouthpiece, supercilious purse-proud of those who are assumed to be famous. Stories of an actress who wore a branded ... «VietNamNet Bridge, Apr 13»
Parliamentary heroes and villains: drama in spades
He looked as though he were purse-proud and a bully..." One of Anthony Trollope's most infamous characters is the great swindler Augustus Melmotte from The ... «BBC News, Mar 13»
London Calling
A certain style dignified its grime; heavy, clumsy, arrogant, purse-proud, but not cheap; insular but large; barely tolerant of an outside world, and absolutely ... «New York Times, Mar 12»
Class Struggle against Car Domination
A 1904 edition of the U.S. farm magazine, Breeders Gazette, called automobile drivers "a reckless, bloodthirsty, villainous lot of purse-proud crazy trespassers.". «Monthly Review, Sep 10»
East of time
His parents, ill-educated (his mother thinks "hoi polloi" means "high society"), purse-proud and unscrupulous, send Sherbourne to a Sydney-snob school full of ... «The Age, Sep 05»