| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 Seiten
...Calendar, with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue; it...formed into a connected discourse prefixed to the Almanack of 1757, as the harangue of a wise old man to the people attending an auction : the bringing... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 558 Seiten
...Calendar, with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculeated industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue; it...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... | |
| Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 Seiten
...calendar, with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue; it...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
...calendar, with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as> inculcated industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue; it...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
...Calendar, with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and rugality, as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue ; it...being 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.'"... | |
| Orville Luther Holley - 1848 - 522 Seiten
...calendar, with proverbial sentences ; chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue ; it..." It is hard for an empty sack to stand upright." When about to relinquish the publication of his almanac, he gathered these scattered maxims together,... | |
| Orville Luther Holley - 1848 - 534 Seiten
...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 7nan in want to act always honestly, as, to use here one of those proverbs, " It is hard for an empty... | |
| Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1849 - 652 Seiten
...hard for an empty Back to stand upright/ ' These proverbs,' continuée FRANKLIN, in his autobiography, 'which contained the wisdom of many ages and nations,...formed into a connected discourse, prefixed to the Almnnac of 1758, as the harangue of a wise old man to the people attending an auction. The bringing... | |
| 1849 - 970 Seiten
...securing virtue ; 'for/ said the author, 'it la more difficult for a man in want to act honestly, than it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright.' ' These proverbs. ' continues FRANKLIN, in his autobiography, 'which contained the wisdom of many age* and nations, I... | |
| 1856 - 378 Seiten
...Xvil lendar with proverb sentenees, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue; it...for a man in want to act always honestly, as, to use hero one of those proverbs, ' It is hard for an empty sack to stand upright.' " He afterwards gathered... | |
| |