In spite of the evident charitableness of this Christian design, and the irrefragable calculations upon which it was based, this company died a victim to the ignorance and unthankfulness of our fellow- creatures; and all that remained of Jack's L6,000, was a fifty-fourth share in a small steam-engine, a large assortment of ready-made pantaloons, and the liabilities of the directors.
"The Caxtons, Part 2"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The wholesome morality, the charitableness and homely piety apparent throughout, give the narrative a charm denied to many works of greater literary pretension.
"Life And Adventures Of Peter Wilkins, Vol. I. (of II.)"
Robert Paltock Commentator: A. H. Bullen
Her charitableness and latitude of sentiments seems to have increased a-pace, from the farther examination which she was now probably making into the state of the controversy between the church of Rome and the Protestants; for in another letter to Mr. Burnet, of August 8, 1704, she speaks to the subject of religion, with a spirit of moderation unusual in the communion of which she still professed herself.
"The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753),Vol. V."
Theophilus Cibber