profitableness

How To Use profitableness In A Sentence

• Agesilaus resolutely answered, on the behalf of Phoebidas, that the profitableness of the act was chiefly to be considered; if it were for the advantage of the commonwealth, it was no matter whether it were done with or without authority. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
• Formerly slavery was looked upon as peculiarly pernicious to the diffusion of wealth and the progress of national greatness; now the South is intoxicated with ideas of the profitableness of slave labor, and the power of King Cotton in controlling the exchanges of the world. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862
• And, moreover, as our best doings are only very pitiful shortcomings, worth little or nothing, it is just as good for us that the consciousness of our unprofitableness should be kept constantly before us, instead of the serene self-complacency of doing wonders, over which we should fall asleep, certainly neither in blessedness nor the odour of sanctity! Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle
• The reason of this 'profitableness' is the fact that the labor requires so little mental effort. A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy
• The opportunities for lucrative trading and the profitableness of overproduction which they made possible became almost immeasurable. Preaching and Paganism
• We do not flourish in fruitfulness, in savouriness, and profitableness, answerable to what the dispensations of God have been towards us; for the dew of God hath been upon us from time to time. The Sermons of John Owen
• Presently, Ischomachus proceeded: Now it is of prime importance,428 in reference to the profitableness or unprofitableness of agriculture, even on a large estate where there are numerous429 workfolk,430 whether a man takes any pains at all to see that his labourers are devoted to the work on hand during the appointed time,431 or whether he neglects that duty. Oeconomicus
• The subjects of which the Master seldom spoke were-profitableness, and also the appointments of Heaven, and perfect virtue. The Analects
• Organizations can use data mining in such a way as to improve profitableness and effectiveness of their interactions with their customers, improve the management of risk, and detect fraud. Data Mining Techniques and Applications
• We ought in Scriptures rather to seek profitableness than subtle language. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6