The man, who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of living in a little time much beneath them, or, as the Italian proverb runs, the man who lives by hope will die by hunger. The Spectator ... - Seite 1111803Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1786 - 694 Seiten
...contingent futurities, thai occafions romantic generality, chimerical grandeur, fenfclels oftentation, and generally ends in beggary and ruin. The man who will live above his |irui.-nt circumltances, is in great danger of living in a little time much beneath them, x>r, as the... | |
| 1794 - 450 Seiten
...GOSLING'S extravagant hopes in his-farce of a Lottery. + Disburse seems to stand here for reimburse. sions romantic generosity, chimerical grandeur, senseless...indispensable rule in life, to contract our desires fo our present condition, and, whatever may he our expectations, to live within the compass of what... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1801 - 364 Seiten
...contingent futurities, that occafions romantic generofity, chimerical grandeur, fenfelefs oftentation, and generally ends in beggary and ruin. The man who will live above his prefent circumftances, is in great ctanr per of living in a little time much beneath them ; or as tne... | |
| 1803 - 402 Seiten
...who have never suffered from losses or repairs, tenants, taxes, or law-suits. In short, it is their foolish sanguine temper, this depending upon contingent...present circumstances, is in great danger of living in * little time much beneath them, or, as the Italian proverb runs, ' The man who lives by hope will... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 322 Seiten
...ostentation, and generally ends in beggary and ruin, $ Disburse seems to stand here for reimburse. The man who will live above his present circumstances,...die by hunger." It should be an indispensable rule m life, to contract our desires to our present condition, and, whatever may be our expectations, to... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 322 Seiten
...poverty, who have never suffered from losses or repairs, tenants, taxes, or law-suits. In short, it is this foolish sanguine temper, this depending upon...futurities, that occasions romantic generosity, chimerical grandenr, senseless ostentation, and generally ends in beggary and ruin. * Disburse seems to stand... | |
| Spectator The - 1811 - 802 Seiten
...poverty, who have never suffered from losses or repairs, tenants, taxes, or In« -Mills. In short, it is this foolish sanguine temper, this depending upon...in beggary and ruin. The man, who will live above hie present circumstances, is in great danger of living in a little time much beneath them; or. as... | |
| British essayists - 1819 - 316 Seiten
...poverty, who have never suffered from losses or repairs, tenants, taxes, or law-suits. In short, it is this foolish sanguine temper, this depending upon...ostentation, and generally ends in beggary and ruin. * Disburse seems to stand here for reimburse. The man who will live above his present circumstances,... | |
| 1822 - 788 Seiten
...poverty, who have never suffered from losses or repairs, tenants, taxes, or law-suits. In short, it is wards ge nerosity, chimerical grandeur, senseless ostenta tion, and generally ends in beggary and ruin. The... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - 820 Seiten
...poverty, who have never suffered from losses or repairs, tenants, taxes, or law-suits. In short, it is this foolish sanguine temper, this depending upon...ostentation, and generally ends in beggary and ruin. * Disburse seems to stand here for reimburse. ' The man who will live above his present circumstances,... | |
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