 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
 | sir Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave - 1882 - 250 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." ' 3. ' By these and other extravagances,... | |
 | W & R CHAMBERS - 1887 - 238 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... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1897 - 554 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... | |
 | Hélène Adeline Guerber - 1898 - 366 Seiten
...Con-ueniaicics, .and yet only becaul Jiey look pretty, how many -want to iawthem. The artificial Wants of Mancind thus become' more numerous than the natural ; and,...Dick fays, For one poor Perfon, there are an hundred in digent. By thefe, and other Extrava ganoies, the Genteel are reduced to Po verty, and forced to... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1899 - 204 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... | |
 | 1899 - 312 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 artificial wants of mankind thus become far more numerous than the natural. "Children and fools, Poor Richard says, imagine that twenty shillings... | |
 | 1899 - 312 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 artificial wants of mankind thus become far more numerous than the natural. "Children and fools, Poor Richard says, imagine that twenty shillings... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 430 Seiten
...pretty, how many want to have them ! The artificial i Fortunate he whom others' perils make cautious. 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 - 1900 - 190 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... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 464 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... | |
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