 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 - 1839 - 246 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...mankind thus become more numerous than the natural -t and, a-; poor Dick says, " For one poor person there are a hundred indigent." By these and other... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 342 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 - 1840 - 292 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 wants of mankind thus become more mimcrous than the ' natural ; and, as poor Dick says, ' For one poor person there are a hundred indigent.'... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 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.' By these and other extravagances, the genteel... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1851 - 318 Seiten
...scarcely be called the conveniences ; and yet only because they look pretty, how many want to have them 1 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 Seiten
...not the necessaries of life : they can scarcely be called the conve niences ; 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... | |
 | William Chambers - 1858 - 378 Seiten
...scarcely be called the conveniences; and yet only because they look pretty, how many want to have them 1 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1864 - 260 Seiten
...of life, they can scarcely be called the convemences ; and yet only because they look pretty, hov/ many want to have them? The artificial wants of mankind...more numerous than the natural ; and, as poor Dick says, " Fot one poor oerson there arc a hundred indigent." By these and other extravagances, the genteel... | |
 | Illustrated reader - 1874 - 408 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...mankind thus become more numerous than the natural, and for one poor person there are a hundred indigent. By these and other extravagances the genteel are... | |
 | Phebe Lankester - 1880 - 270 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...mankind thus become more numerous than the natural. ' For one poor person there are a hundred indigent.' By these and other extravagances, the genteel... | |
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