 | Benjamin Franklin - 1868 - 426 Seiten
...people, who bought scarcely any other books ; I therefore filled all the little spaces that occurr'd between the remarkable days in the calendar with proverbial...the wisdom of many ages and nations, I assembled and form'd into a connected discourse prefix'd to the Almanack of 1757, as the harangue of a wise old man... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1868 - 434 Seiten
...people, who bought scarcely any other books; I therefore filled all the little spaces that occurr'd between the remarkable days in the calendar with proverbial...wealth, and thereby securing virtue; it being more diflicult for a man in want, to .net always honestly, as, to use here one of those proverbs, it is... | |
 | William Adolphus Wheeler - 1872 - 462 Seiten
...the common people, who bought scarcely any other books. I therefore filled all the little spaces that occurred between the remarkable days in the calendar...thereby securing virtue ; it being more difficult fora man in want to act always honestly, an, to use here ono of those proverbs, ' It is hard for an... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 812 Seiten
...people, who bought scarcely any other books ; I therefore filled all the little spaces that occurr'd between the remarkable days in the calendar with proverbial...the wisdom of many ages and nations, I assembled and form'd into a connected discourse prefix'd to the Almanack of 1757, as the harangue of a wise old man... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 602 Seiten
...people, who bought scarcely any other books ; I therefore filled all the little spaces that occurr'd between the remarkable days in the calendar with proverbial...the wisdom of many ages and nations, I assembled and form'd into a connected discourse prefix'd to the Almanack of 1757, as the harangue of a wise old man... | |
 | Jeremiah Chaplin - 1876 - 416 Seiten
...sentences," inculcating industry and frugality as the means of procuring a competence, and, as he says, " thereby securing virtue ; it being more difficult for a man in want to act always honestly, as ' it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright.' " Instructive hints were given in matters of morality... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1882 - 592 Seiten
...common people, who bought scarcely any other books. I therefore filled all the little spaces, that occurred between the remarkable days in the Calendar,...use here one of those proverbs) ' It is hard for an tmjitif fack to stand upright.' These proverbs, which contained the wisdom of many ages and nations,... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1883 - 612 Seiten
...the common people, who bought scarcely any other books. I therefore filled all the little spaces that occurred between the remarkable days in the calendar...proverbs), 'It is hard for an empty sack to stand upright.' " The choice utterances of Poor Richard were copied by all the colonial newspapers, and were read,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1884 - 598 Seiten
...people, who bought scarcely any other books ; I therefore filled all the little spaces that occurr'd between the remarkable days in the calendar with proverbial...the wisdom of many ages and nations, I assembled and form'd into a connected discourse prefix'd to the Almanack of 1757, as the harangue of a wise old man... | |
 | John Thomas Scharf, Thompson Westcott - 1884 - 1012 Seiten
...the common people who bought scarcely any other books. I therefore filled all the little spaces that occurred between the remarkable days in the calendar..." It is hard for an empty sack to stand upright." To our minds it would not be easy to find in the sayings of wise men one less fit to be believed and... | |
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I therefore filled all the little spaces that occurr'd between the remarkable days in the calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue; it being more... 
