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Antithesis (opposition) is a figure of speech consisting in a contrast or opposition of words or sentiments; as, 'When our vices leave us, we flatter ourselves we leave them'', 'The prodigal robs his heir, the miser robs himself'.
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Ephrain Lopes Pereira d'Aguilar (Baron Aguilar) was an infamous miser. He was born in 1740 at Vienna and died in 1802.
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John Elwes was an English miser. He was born about 1712 ab dided in 1789. His own name was Meggot, but he changed it on succeeding to an estate left him by his uncle, Sir Harvey Elwes. He was educated at Westminter School, and in his younger days was noted for his skill in horsemanship and love of the chase. He was elected member for Berkshire in 1774. His fortune and parsimonious habits increased in equal ratio, and at his death in 1789 he left, besides entailed estates, a fortune of half a million to his two natural sons.
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Thomas Guy was an English businessman, statesman and renowned miser. He was born in 1643 at London and died in 1724. The son of a lighterman in Southward, he was brought up a bookseller. He dealt largely in the importation of Bibles from Holland, and afterwards contracted with Oxford for those printed at that university. From 1694 to 1707 he represented Tamworth in Parliament. By a successful speculation in the shares of the South Sea Company he realised a fortune. With his fortune he founded an almshouse at Tamworth in 1678, the Tamworth townhall in 1701. He founded Guy' s Hospital in London in 1721, and paid for the erection of wards at St Thomas' Hospital.
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William Carleton was an Irish novelist. He was born in 1794 at Prillisk and died in 1869. His education commenced at a hedge-school, and terminated with two years' training in an academy kept by a relation, a priest, at Glasslough. Thence he went to Dublin to try his fortune in the walks of literature. There, in 1830 to 1832, were published his Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry. Among his other publications are: Fardorougha, the Miser; The Misfortunes of Barney Branagan; Valentine M'Clutchy; The Black Prophet; The Tithe Proctor; Willey Reilly; and the Evil Eye; this last novel appearing in 1860. He enjoyed a government allowance of 200 pounds per annum several years before his death.
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MISER is an abbreviation for Microwave Space Electronics Relay
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Cheeseparer is slang for a miser, a skinflint.
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Clutchfist is British slang for a miser.
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Duck's arse is British slang for a miser.
Duck's arse is London Cockney rhyming slang for an informer (grass).
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Jew is British slang for a miser.
Jew is British slang for to get the better of someone financially.
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