摘要
There are two sorts of avarice:the one is but of a bas-tard kind,and that is,the rapacious appetite of gain,notfor its own shake,but for the pleasure of refunding it imme-diately through all the channels of pride and luxury;the otheris the true kind,and properly so called,which is a restlessand unsatiable desire of riches,not for any farther end oruse,but only to hoard,and preserve,and perpetually in-crease them.The covetous man,of the first kind,is like
