 | Charles Simmons - 1852 - 564 Seiten
...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 it is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it. Ezek. 16: 49. "TMs was... | |
 | W. H. R. - 1852 - 424 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1853 - 446 Seiten
...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...as for the frog to swell, in order to equal the ox. ' Venture large may venture more, But little brats should keep near shore.' • It is, however, a folly... | |
 | William Chambers - 1853 - 858 Seiten
...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...is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as the frog to swell in order to equal the ox. ' Vi-ssrls Inrg"' mny vfimm- mon1. Hut little boats should... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 308 Seiten
...more saucy.' When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may he all of a piece ; but poor Dick says, * It is easier...is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as the frog to swell, in order to equal the ox. 4 Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should... | |
 | C. Gough - 1853 - 428 Seiten
...friend than their joke. Those nimble fancies are but the froth of wit. — Lord Chancellor Burleigh. IT is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich,...as for the frog to swell, in order to equal the ox. A TYRANT'S HAPPINESS. DEMOCLES, the Sicilian, learnt that the life of a tyrant is not as happy as it... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 Seiten
...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 it is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it. — Franklin. PRIDE.... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1854 - 580 Seiten
...When you have bought 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...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 the ox."... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 522 Seiten
...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...as for the frog to swell in order to equal the ox. 1 Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore.' It is, however, a folly... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 Seiten
...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...is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as the frog to swell, in order to equal the ox. ' Vessels large may venture more. But little boats should... | |
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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. 
