| 1851 - 112 Seiten
...money, go and try and borrow some. Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more sancy. It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt. Pride breakfasts with plenty, dines with poverty, and... | |
| Charles Simmons - 1852 - 564 Seiten
...Franklin. 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...first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it. Ezek. 16: 49. "TMs was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread," etc. Ed. The history... | |
| W. H. R. - 1852 - 424 Seiten
...borne down. The philosophy of this is partly set forth in the proverb, " When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, — that your appearance may be all of a piece." There are two ways in which persons are led to the violation of personal and domestic economy. The... | |
| Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 Seiten
...PRIDE. — 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. PRIDE. — Though Diogenes lived in a tub, there might be, for aught I know, as much pride under his... | |
| 1853 - 446 Seiten
...; ' 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... | |
| William Chambers - 1853 - 858 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 - 1853 - 522 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... | |
| Ludwig Herrig - 1854 - 580 Seiten
...one thing fine, you must buy then more, that your appearance may be all ofapiece; but poor Dick says, „it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it; and it is äs truly folly for the poor to ape the rieh, äs for the frog to swell, in order to equal... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 Seiten
...again, 'Pride is as loud a beggar as Want, and a great deal more sancy.' 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,... | |
| 1856 - 372 Seiten
...DCLTX. 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 ;... | |
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