Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, and supped with Infamy. And after all, of what Use is this Pride of Appearance, for which so much is risked, so much is suffered? It cannot promote Health, or ease Pain; it makes no Increase of Merit... A Benjamin Franklin Reader - Seite 184von Walter Isaacson - 2005 - 576 SeitenEingeschränkte Leseprobe - Über dieses Buch
| Benjamin Franklin - 1819 - 520 Seiten
...vanity, sups on contempt ; Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, and supped with Inform/. And, after all, of what use is this pride of appearance,...risked, so much is suffered ? It cannot promote health, nor ease pain ; it makes no increase of merit in the person; it creates envy ; it hastens misfortune.... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1820 - 360 Seiten
...that dines on vanity sups on contempt; pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and sapped with infamy.' And, after all, of what use is this...risked, so much is suffered ? It cannot promote health, nor ease pain ; it makes no increase of merit in the person ; it creates envy, it hastens misfortune.... | |
| 1821 - 356 Seiten
...folly soon punished ; for, as poor Richard says, ' pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt ; pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped...risked, so much is suffered ? It cannot promote health, nor ease pain ; it makes no increase of merit in the persou; it creates envy, it hastens misfortune.... | |
| 1821 - 156 Seiten
...folly soon punished : for as Poor Richard says, * Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt ; Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, and supped...risked, so much is suffered ? It cannot promote health, nor ease pain ; it makes no increase of merit in the person — it creates envy, it hastens misfortune.... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1821 - 232 Seiten
...pride that dines on vanity, sups oa contempt ; pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, ami supped with infamy.' And, after all, of what use is...risked, so much is suffered ? It cannot promote health, nor ease pain ; it makes no increase of ipei'it in the person , it creates envy, it hastens misfortune.... | |
| William Pinnock - 1822 - 252 Seiten
...folly soon punished ; for, as Poor Richard says, ' Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt: pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.' And after all, of what use is the pride of appearance, for which so much is risked, so much is suffered ? it cannot promote health,... | |
| H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 Seiten
...soon punished; for, as Poor Richard gays, „Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt; — Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, and supped...for which so much is risked, so much is suffered? It canned promote health, nor ease pain) it makes no increase of merit in the person, it creates envy,... | |
| Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 Seiten
...folly soon punished; for, as Poor Richard says, 'Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt; Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with Poverty, and supped...risked, so much is suffered? It cannot promote health, nor ease pain; it makes no increase of merit in the person, it creates envy, it hastens misfortune.... | |
| John Bull - 1825 - 782 Seiten
...Richard says, Pride that -dines on vanity, sups OB contempt ; pride breakfasted with plenty, dined vritb poverty, and supped with infamy. And, after all, of...appearance, for which so much is risked, so much is suffered 1 ' It cannot promote health, nor ease pain ; it makes no mere»«! of merit in the person, it creates... | |
| 1826 - 440 Seiten
...Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt,' as poor Richard says. And, in another place, ' Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, and supped...much is suffered ? It cannot promote health, or ease pair. ; it makes no increase of merit in the person ; it creates envy; it hastens misfortune. • What... | |
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