 | Frances Eggleston Blodgett, Andrew Burr Blodgett - 1910 - 504 Seiten
...as Poor Richard says. " It would be thought a hard government that should 5 tax its people one tenth part of their time, to be employed in its service, but idleness taxes many of us much more; sloth by bringing on diseases absolutely shortens life. ' Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor... | |
 | Frances Eggleston Blodgett, Andrew Burr Blodgett - 1910 - 264 Seiten
...as Poor Richard says. " It would be thought a hard government that should 5 tax its people one tenth part of their time, to be employed in its service, but idleness taxes many of us much more; sloth by bringing on diseases absolutely shortens life. ' Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor... | |
 | Andrew Carnegie - 1911 - 446 Seiten
...something may be done for us; God helps them that help themselves, as poor Richard says. "It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people...service, but idleness taxes many of us much more; sloth by bringing on diseases, absolutely shortens life. Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor... | |
 | Delphian Society - 1911 - 578 Seiten
...something may be done for us ; God helps them that help themselves, as Poor Richard says. "It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people...service; but idleness taxes many of us much more; sloth, by bringing on diseases, absolutely shortens life. Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1912 - 274 Seiten
...WEALTH (From Father Abraham's Speech forming the preface to Poor Richard's Almanac for 1758.) IT would be thought a hard Government that should tax its People...doing of nothing, with that which is spent in idle Em-5 ployments or Amusements, that amount to nothing. Sloth, by bringing on Diseases, absolutely shortens... | |
 | May Louise Harvey - 1912 - 424 Seiten
...says, in his Almanac of 1733. "It would be thought a hard government that should tax the people a tenth part of their time to be employed in its service, but idleness taxes many of us much more. If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be, as Poor Richard says, the greatest prodigality,... | |
 | 1912 - 332 Seiten
...as Poor Richard says. "I. It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part of their time to be employed in its service; but idleness taxes many of us much more ; sloth, by bringing on diseases, absolutely shortens life. Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than... | |
 | Mary Edwards Calhoun, Emma Leonora MacAlarney - 1915 - 670 Seiten
...Poor Richard says. I. " It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part of their time, to be employed in its service ; but idleness taxes many of us much more ; sloth, by bringing on diseases, absolutely shortens life. Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than... | |
 | Edwin Du Bois Shurter - 1917 - 328 Seiten
...something may be done for us. 'Heaven helps them that help themselves,' as poor Richard says. "It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people...service ; but idleness taxes many of us much more; sloth, by bringing on diseases, absolutely shortens life. 'Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor... | |
 | William Joseph Long - 1917 - 588 Seiten
...of the entire address : " It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part of their time, to be employed in its service; but idleness taxes many of us much more ; sloth, by bringing on diseases, absolutely shortens life. Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than... | |
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It would be thought a hard government, that should tax its people one-tenth part of their time, to be employed in its service ; but idleness taxes many of us much more; sloth, by bringing on diseases, absolutely shortens life. Sloth, like rust, consumes... 
