pecuniary resources

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Dependent altogether on his own pecuniary resources, Mr. Whitney, without compensation or assistance, has labored with a constancy and fidelity which could only proceed from a great purpose.

From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 by Various

Such, then, was the amount of information acquired regarding Mr Mowbray's pecuniary resources; and more, on this point, or any other regarding him, could not, by any means, be arrived at.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 by Wilson, John Mackay

Here her mental and her pecuniary resources were again demonstrated in a way that surprised everybody at all cognizant of her habits and history.

From The Spiritualists and the Detectives by Pinkerton, Allan

Dorothea L. Dix is a native of Worcester, Mass. Her father was a physician, who died while she was as yet young, leaving her almost without pecuniary resources.

From Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience by Bellows, Henry W.

Immediately upon the attainment of this high dignity and authority, with the ample pecuniary resources accompanying it, Napoleon hastened to Marseilles, to place his mother in a position of perfect comfort.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. by Various