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
| Benjamin Franklin - 2005 - 320 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/' ^ * He's a lucky fellow who is made prudent... | |
| Paul Zall - 2005 - 216 Seiten
...are not the Necessaries of Life; they can scarcely be called the Conveniencies, and yet only because they look pretty, how many want to have them. The...Mankind thus become more numerous than the natural. . . . The Genteel are reduced to Poverty, and forced to borrow of those whom they formerly despised,... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 2006 - 168 Seiten
...are not the Necessaries of Life, they can scarcely be called the Conveniencies; 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... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 189? - 332 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... | |
| Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 Seiten
...scarcely be called the conveniences ; and yet, only because they look pretty, how many want to have them I 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... | |
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