| 1822 - 588 Seiten
...loud a beggar as want, and a great deal • 1 Cor. 4, &c. more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance...first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it. And it is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as for the frog to swell in order to equal the... | |
| William Pinnock - 1822 - 252 Seiten
...again, ' Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have got one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece ; but Poor Dick says, ' It is easier to suppress the first lesnre, than to satisfy all that follow it.' And... | |
| Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 Seiten
...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, 'It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it:' And... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1825 - 324 Seiten
...fine thing, you must buyten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece ; but poor Dick says, ' It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.' And it is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as the frog to swell, in order to equal the... | |
| John Bull - 1825 - 782 Seiten
...fine thing, you must buVpten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece ; but poor Ihck says, It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it : and it is ¡t.; truly lolly for the poor to ape the rich, as for the frog to swell iu ortler to al... | |
| 1826 - 422 Seiten
...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, ' It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.' And... | |
| 1826 - 440 Seiten
...as loud a beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy.' When you have bought one fine thing-, ,jou must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece ; but poor Dick says, ' It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.' And... | |
| 1826 - 450 Seiten
...loud a brggar as Want, and a great deal more Iaucy." When you have bought one Jine thing, you muft buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a ' piece; bat Poor Dick fays, " It is cafter to fupprefs the firft defire, than to fatiify all that follow it... | |
| Ethics - 1828 - 234 Seiten
...sav'd, amount to pounds iu haste." " Beware of little expences, a small leak will sink a great ship." It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. " Vessels' large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore." " Pride, that dines on... | |
| John Timbs - 1829 - 354 Seiten
...DCLIX. 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...than to satisfy all that follow it. — Franklin. DCLX. It is certainly a mistake in the ancients to draw the little gentleman Love as a blind boy; for... | |
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