 | William Makepeace Thayer - 1860 - 342 Seiten
...little boats should keep near shore." And qualified himself to pen such maxims as the following : — " It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it." " It is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as for the frog to swell in order to equal the... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1861 - 304 Seiten
...little boats should keep near shore." And qualified himself to pen such maxims as the following : — " It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it." " It is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as for the frog to swell in order to equal the... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 Seiten
...have bwi.-! ' one fine thing, you must buy ten mere, th yuur appearance may be all of a piece ; bu: : is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. /re»Hi«. Pride is a vice not only dreadfully mischievous in human society, but perhaps of »I1 РВЕОЖ... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1864 - 260 Seiten
...of dress is sure a very curse ; Ere fancy you consult, consult your purse." And again, " Pride is as loud a beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy." When you have bought one tine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but poor Dick says,... | |
 | 1865 - 138 Seiten
...little boats should keep near shore." And qualified himself to pen such maxims as the following:— " It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it." " It is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as for the frog to swell in order to equal the... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1866 - 236 Seiten
...of dross is sure a very curse, Ere fancy you consult, consult your purse.' And again, ' Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy.' When you_have bought one f,ne thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece ;... | |
 | William H. Ablett - 1867 - 94 Seiten
...consult, consult your purse.' And again, ' Pride is as bound a beggar as want, and POOR RICHARD. 67 a great deal more saucy.' When you have bought one...first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.' And is truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as the frog to swell in order to equal the ox. ' Vessels... | |
 | James Lee (M.A.) - 1867 - 492 Seiten
...boundlessness of his voluptuous desires, by stinting his strength and contracting his capacities. — South. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy...more, that your appearance may be all of a piece ; but it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. — Franklin. ' One vice,'... | |
 | Alfred Henderson - 1869 - 526 Seiten
...lives the man that has not tried, How mirth can into folly glide And folly into sin ! " SCOTT. PP " It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it." " For glances beget ogles, ogles sighs, Sighs wishes, wishes words, and words a letter." BYRON. " Do... | |
 | Thomas Walker (poet.) - 1870 - 270 Seiten
...If you have bought a fine thing, you want ten more, That you may correspond behind and before. But it is easier to suppress the first desire, Than to satisfy all you may require ; And it is truly a folly for those that are poor To ape at the rich — of this I... | |
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And again, Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but Poor Dick says, 'Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy... 
