 These are not the Necessaries of Life; they can scarcely be called the Conveniences, and yet only because they look pretty, how many want to have them. The artificial Wants of Mankind thus become more numerous than the natural; and, as Poor Dick says,...  The Scots Magazine - Seite 241777Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1910 - 330 Seiten
...are not the necessaries of life; they can scarcely be called the conveniences; and yet, only because they look pretty, how many want to have them ! The...become more numerous than the natural; and as Poor Dick says, 'for one poor person there are a hundred indigent.' " By these and other extravagances the genteel... | |
 | Lionel Strachey - 1905 - 316 Seiten
...are not the necessaries of life; they can scarcely be called the conveniences; and yet, only because they look pretty, how many want to have them! The...more numerous than the natural; and, as Poor Dick says, For one poor person there are a hundred indigent. By these, and other extravagances, the genteel... | |
 | Lionel Strachey - 1905 - 318 Seiten
...scarcely be called the conveniences; and yet, only because they look pretty, how many want to have theml The artificial wants of mankind thus become more numerous than the natural; and, as Poor Dick says, For one poor person there are a hundred indigent. By these, and other extravagances, the genteel... | |
 | 1907 - 374 Seiten
...are not the necessaries of life; they can scarcely be called the conveniences; and yet, only because they look pretty, how many want to have them! The...more numerous than the natural; and, as Poor Dick says, For one poor person there are a hundred indigent. By these, and other extravagances, the genteel... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1909 - 280 Seiten
...not the necessaries of life ; they can scarcely be called the conveniences ; and yet, only because they look pretty, how many want to have them ! The...more numerous than the natural ; and as Poor Dick says, " for one poor person there are a hundred indigent." By these and other extravagances the genteel... | |
 | 1910 - 272 Seiten
...not the necessaries of life ; they can scarcely be called the conveniences ; and yet, only because they look pretty, how many want to have them ! The...more numerous than the natural ; and, as Poor Dick says, For one poor person there are a hundred indigent. By these, and other extravagances, the genteel... | |
 | May Louise Harvey - 1912 - 424 Seiten
...scarcely be called the conveniences, and yet only because they look pretty how many suffer want in order to have them. The artificial wants of mankind thus...become more numerous than the natural and, as Poor Dick says, for one poor person there are a hundred indigent. "Always taking out of the meal tub and never... | |
 | John Lawson Stoddard - 1913 - 494 Seiten
...are not the Necessaries of Life; they can scarcely be called the Conveniences, and yet only because they look pretty how many want to have them. The artificial...become more numerous than the natural; and as Poor Dick says, 'For one poor Person there are an hundred indigent.' By these, and other Extravagances the Genteel... | |
 | 1914 - 304 Seiten
...are not the necessaries of life; they can scarcely be called the conveniences; and yet, only because they look pretty, how many want to have them ! The...more numerous than the natural; and, as Poor Dick says, For one poor person there are a hundred indigent. By these, and other extravagances, the genteel... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1916 - 760 Seiten
...are not the Necessaries of Life; they can scarcely be called the Conveniences; and yet only because they look pretty, how many want to have them! The...more numerous than the Natural; and, as Poor Dick says, for one poor Person, there are an hundred Indigent. By these, and other Extravagancies, the Genteel... | |
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