 | James Stuart Laurie - 1863
...saw any one too ambitious of court favors, sacrificing his time in attendance on levees, his repose, his liberty, his virtue, and perhaps his friends, to attain it, I have said to myself, " This man gives too much for his whistle." If I knew a miser who gave up every kind... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1864 - 231 Seiten
...any one too ambitious of court favors, sacrifificing his time in attendance on levees, his repose, his liberty, his virtue, and perhaps his friends, to attain it, I have said to myself, Tlds man gives too much for his whistle, When I saw another found of popularity, constantly... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1865 - 286 Seiten
...saw any one too ambitious1 of court-favor, sacrificing his time in attendance on levees,2 his repose, his liberty, his virtue, and perhaps his friends, to attain it, I said to myself, This man gives too much for his whistle. 6. When I saw another fond of popularity,... | |
 | Ephraim Hunt - 1872 - 640 Seiten
...saw any one too ambitious of court-favor, sacrificing his time in attendance at levees, his repose, his liberty, his virtue, and perhaps his friends, to attain it, I have said to myself, This man gives too muck for his whistle. When I saw another fond of popularity, constantly... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875
...When I saw one too ambitious of court favor, sacrificing his time in attendance on levees, his repose, his liberty, his virtue, and perhaps his friends, to attain it, I have said to myself, This man gives too much for his whistle. When I saw another fond of popularity, constantly... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875
...When I saw one too ambitious of court favor, sacrificing his time in attendance on levees, his repose, his liberty, his virtue, and perhaps his friends, to attain it, I have said to myself, This man gives too much for his whistle. When I saw another fond of popularity, constantly... | |
 | William Makepeace Thayer - 1875 - 264 Seiten
...I saw one too ambitious of court favour, sacrificing his time in attendance on levees, his repose, his liberty, his virtue, and, perhaps, his friends, to attain it, I have said to myself, This man gives too much for his whistle. "When I saw another fond of popularity, constantly... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1878 - 248 Seiten
...of the favor of the great, wasting his time in attendance on public dinners, sacrificing his repose, his liberty, his virtue, and perhaps his friends, to attain it, I have said to myself, " This man gives too much for his whistle." 7. When I saw another fond of popularity,... | |
 | Moffatt and Paige - 1880
...any one too aambitious of 2court favour, sacrificing his time in attendance at 3levees, his repose, his liberty, his virtue, and perhaps his friends, to attain it, I said to myself, " This man gives too much for his whistle." If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind... | |
 | Secrets - 1882 - 63 Seiten
...saw any one too ambitious of court favours, sacrificing his time in attendance on levees, his repose, his liberty, his virtue, and perhaps his friends to attain it, I said to myself: This man gives too much for his whistle. When I saw another, fond of popularity, constantly... | |
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I saved my money. As I grew up, came into the world, and observed the actions of men, I thought I met with many, very many, who gave too much for the whistle. 
