 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 - 1901 - 296 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... | |
 | Marshall Everett - 1901 - 568 Seiten
...are not the ilecessaries 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... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck, Frank R. Stockton, Nathan Haskell Dole, Julian Hawthorne - 1901 - 432 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... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - 444 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... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1902 - 518 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 onepoor person, there are a hundred indigent. By these, and other extravagances, the genteel... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1903 - 358 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... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1903 - 600 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."0 By these and other extravagances, the genteel... | |
 | 1903 - 434 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... | |
 | 1904 - 496 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... | |
 | Mary Minerva Barrows - 1905 - 208 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," Benjamin Franklin. It is well to let down... | |
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