 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 522 Seiten
...and the belly' a good deal of victuals. Our eyes, though exceedingly useful, ask, when reasonable, only the cheap assistance of spectacles, which could...neither fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture. B. FRANKLIN. PS This will be delivered to you by my grandson. I am persuaded you will afford him your... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 Seiten
...and the 'belly a good deal of victuals. Our eyes, though exceedingly useful, ask, when .reasonable, only the cheap assistance of spectacles, which could...But the eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin UB. If all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture.... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - 1855 - 466 Seiten
...hundreds from a condition of competence to that of poverty. That apt Reniarker, Dr. Franklin, observes ; " The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us....If all but myself were blind, I should want neither tine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture." — It is even so ; — and it is this supreme regard... | |
 | William Russell - 1856 - 240 Seiten
...and the stomach a good deal of victuals. Our eyes, though exceedingly useful, ask, when reasonable, only the cheap assistance of spectacles, which could...neither fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture. EXTRACT XIX. The Influence of professional Associations, on the sense of Beauty. REV. DR. ALISON. No... | |
 | 1856 - 372 Seiten
...and the belly, a good deal of victuals. Our eyes, though exceedingly useful, ask, when reasonable, only the cheap assistance of spectacles, which could...neither fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture. — Franklin. DCXVIIL Scarce observ'd, the knowing and the bold Fall in the gen'ral massacre of gold... | |
 | John Timbs - 1856 - 374 Seiten
...and the belly, a good deal of victuals. Our eyes, though exceedingly useful, ask, when reasonable, only the cheap assistance of spectacles, which could not much impair our finances. But the eyes ol other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine... | |
 | 1860 - 344 Seiten
...FASHION. Dr. Franklin, one of the most acute observers and apt romiirkers of his ago, once said, " The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us....neither fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture," and he 'might have added. I should have no need of "following the fashions," and making myself uncomfortable... | |
 | Caroline M. Mersereau - 1860 - 370 Seiten
...have been. CG Holpin. F. 29. G. — Our eyes, though exceedingly useful to us, ask when reasonable, only the cheap assistance of spectacles, which could...other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but yourself were blind, you would want neither fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture. Franklin.... | |
 | Sunbeams - 1861 - 368 Seiten
...who massacred prisoners taken in war, sacrificed human beings to idols, and burnt them in Smithfield. The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should never want a fine house nor fine furniture. — Franklin. — Let appearances be what they may be —... | |
 | Jacob Lowres - 1862 - 192 Seiten
...belly, a good deal of victuals. Our eyes, though exceedingly useful, ask, when reasonable, only the assistance of spectacles, which could not much impair...neither fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture.' — Franklin. 20. • To-morrow you will live, you always cry. In what far country does this morrow... | |
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Almost all the parts of our bodies require some expense. The feet demand shoes ; the legs stockings ; the rest of the body clothing ; and the belly a good deal of victuals. Our eyes, though exceedingly useful, ask, when reasonable, only the cheap assistance... 
