All 15 Uses of
philanthropy
in
Little Dorrit
- She also stumbled, with a large balance of success against her failures, through various philanthropic recommendations...
Chpt 1.9 *philanthropic = helping others
- Philosophical philanthropy teaches—'†
Chpt 1.11
- Even the two players at dominoes glanced up from their game, as if to protest against philosophical philanthropy being brought by name into the Break of Day.†
Chpt 1.11
- 'Hold there, you and your philanthropy,' cried the smiling landlady, nodding her head more than ever.†
Chpt 1.11
- I am a woman, I. I know nothing of philosophical philanthropy.†
Chpt 1.11
- If your philosophical philanthropy,' said the landlady, putting down her work, and rising to take the stranger's soup from her husband, who appeared with it at a side door, 'puts anybody at the mercy of such people by holding terms with them at all, in words or deeds, or both, take it away from the Break of Day, for it isn't worth a sou.'†
Chpt 1.11
- Philanthropists of both sexes had asked who he was, and on being informed, 'Old Christopher Casby, formerly Town-agent to Lord Decimus Tite Barnacle,' had cried in a rapture of disappointment, 'Oh! why, with that head, is he not a benefactor to his species!†
Chpt 1.13
- The Patriarch was fast asleep, with his philanthropic mouth open under a yellow pocket-handkerchief in the dining-room.†
Chpt 1.24
- Yes, there was Lord Decimus Tite Barnacle, who had risen to official heights on the wings of one indignant idea, and that was, My Lords, that I am yet to be told that it behoves a Minister of this free country to set bounds to the philanthropy, to cramp the charity, to fetter the public spirit, to contract the enterprise, to damp the independent self-reliance, of its people.†
Chpt 1.34
- …by bringing in a Bill to do it, that Bill was as good as dead and buried when Lord Decimus Tite Barnacle rose up in his place and solemnly said, soaring into indignant majesty as the Circumlocution cheering soared around him, that he was yet to be told, My Lords, that it behoved him as the Minister of this free country, to set bounds to the philanthropy, to cramp the charity, to fetter the public spirit, to contract the enterprise, to damp the independent self-reliance, of its people.†
Chpt 1.34
- Philanthropic old buck.†
Chpt 1.35
- Assuredly he did look then, though he looked his politest, as if any real philanthropist could have desired no better employment than to lash a great stone to his neck, and drop him into the water flowing beyond the dark arched gateway in which he stood.†
Chpt 2.7
- After looking at the philanthropic visage and the long silky white hair for a few seconds, during which Mr Casby twirled his thumbs, and smiled at the fire as if he were benevolently wishing it to burn him that he might forgive it, Arthur began: 'I beg your pardon, Mr Casby—'†
Chpt 2.9
- 'Truly,' assented the Patriarch, with a shining face as he philanthropically smiled at the fire, 'none at all, sir.†
Chpt 2.9
- You're a philanthropic sneak.†
Chpt 2.32
Definition:
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(philanthropy) helping others -- especially donating money to worthy causes; or an organization that does so