 Calendar, with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue; it being more difficult for a man in want to act always honestly, as, to use here one of those proverbs,...  Godey's Lady's Book - Seite 1901896Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 Seiten
...frugality, as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue; it being more difficult for a man in want to act always honestly, as (to use here...empty sack to stand upright" These proverbs which contained the wisdom of many ages and nations, I assembled and formed into a connected discourse prefixed... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 558 Seiten
...frugality, as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue; it being more difficult for a man in want to act always honestly, as (to use here...those proverbs) " it is hard for an empty sack to ttand upright" These proverbs which contained the wisdom of many ages and nations, I assembled and... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 Seiten
...of those proverbs) " it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright." These proverbs, which contained the wisdom of many ages and nations, I assembled and formed into a connected discourse prefixed to the Almanack of 1757, as the harangue of a wise old man to the people attending... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 Seiten
...frugality, as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue; it being more difficult for a man in want to act always honestly, as (to use here...proverbs,) "it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright." 14 These proverbs which contained the wisdom of many ages and nations, I assembled and formed into... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 336 Seiten
...frugality, as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue; it being more difficult for a man in want to act always honestly, as (to use here...proverbs,) "it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright. " 14 These proverbs which contained the wisdom of many ages and nations, I assembled and formed into... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 682 Seiten
...more difficult for a man in want to act always lonestly, as (to use here one of those proverbs) " ii is hard for an empty sack to stand upright.'" These proverbs which contained 38 39 the wisdom of many ages and nations, I assembled and formed into a connected discourse... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1836 - 584 Seiten
...frugality, as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue ; it being more difficult for a man in want to act always honestly, as (to use here...empty sack to stand upright.' These proverbs, which contained the wisdom of many ages and nations, I assembled and formed into a connected discourse, prefixed... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 Seiten
...frugality, as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue; it being more difficult for a man in want to act always honestly, as, to use here...empty sack to stand upright. These proverbs, which contained the wisdom of many ages and nations, I assembled and formed into a connected discourse prefixed... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1844 - 600 Seiten
...frugality, as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue; it being more difficult for a man in want to act always honestly, as (to use here...empty sack to stand upright.' These proverbs, which contained the wisdom of many ages and nations, I assembled and formed into a connected discourse, prefixed... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1848 - 676 Seiten
...frugality, as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue ; it being more difficult for a man in want to act always honestly, as, to use here...empty sack to stand upright. These proverbs, which contained the wisdom of many ages and nations, I assembled and formed into a connected discourse prefixed... | |
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