Benevolence
idea · 2 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
a Benevolence · any gift, loan, benevolence, tax · benevolence · khayrīyah
in the texts
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
A form of extra-parliamentary financial exaction requested by James I through Privy Council letters.
Twice in his reign he raised a Benevolence, not indeed by positive order under the Great Seal, Edition:
They do therefore humbly pray your Most Excellent Majesty, that no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax, or such like charge, without common consent by Act of Parliament;
and by other laws of this realm it is provided, that none should be charged by any charge or imposition, called a Benevolence, or by such like charge, by which the statutes before-mentioned, and other the good laws and statutes of this realm, your subjects have inherited this freedom, that they should not be compelled to contribute to any tax, tallage, aid, or other like charge, not set by common …
Risālah fī ʻilm al-akhlāq
The virtue of feeling another's good and ill as one's own.
Benevolence is a virtue by which a man takes pleasure and suffers pain at the good and the evil that befall another, as he takes pleasure and suffers pain for himself.