All 7 Uses of

prosperity

in

The House of the Seven Gables

His duties all performed,—the highest prosperity attained,—his race and future generations fixed on a stable basis, and with a stately roof to shelter them for centuries to come,—what other upward step remained for this good man to take, save the final step from earth to the golden gate of heaven!†
Chpt 1

prosperity = a state of doing well -- especially economically

It might fairly be anticipated that the progress of time would rather increase and ripen their prosperity, than wear away and destroy it.†
Chpt 1 *

There were few of the Pyncheons left to sun themselves in the glow of the Judge's prosperity.†
Chpt 1

As is customary with the rich, when they aim at the honors of a republic, he apologized, as it were, to the people, for his wealth, prosperity, and elevated station, by a free and hearty manner towards those who knew him; putting off the more of his dignity in due proportion with the humbleness of the man whom he saluted, and thereby proving a haughty consciousness of his advantages as irrefragably as if he had marched forth preceded by a troop of lackeys to clear the way.†
Chpt 8

Now, see: under those seven gables, at which we now look up,—and which old Colonel Pyncheon meant to be the house of his descendants, in prosperity and happiness, down to an epoch far beyond the present,—under that roof, through a portion of three centuries, there has been perpetual remorse of conscience, a constantly defeated hope, strife amongst kindred, various misery, a strange form of death, dark suspicion, unspeakable disgrace,—all, or most of which calamity I have the means of tracing to the old Puritan's inordinate desire to plant and endow a family.†
Chpt 12

—that it has left no anguish in my bosom, from that day to this, amidst all the prosperity with which Heaven has blessed me?†
Chpt 15

There was no great probability, therefore, of his volunteering information, out of his dungeon, that should elevate me still higher on the ladder of prosperity.†
Chpt 15