 | John Clark Ridpath - 1899 - 526 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." thus into a focus enabled them to make greater impression. The piece being universally approved was... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - 1899 - 554 Seiten
...among the common people, who bought scarcely any other books ; I therefore filled all the little spaces between the remarkable days in the calendar with proverbial...want to act always honestly, as, to use here one of these proverbs, 'it is hani for an empty sack to stand upright.' " It is hardly necessary to state... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 430 Seiten
...calendar spaces with pointed epigrams beginning " Poor Richard says ; " " chiefly," says Franklin, " such as inculcated industry and frugality as the means...honestly, as, to use here one of those proverbs, ' It ii hard for an rmpty tark to stand upright.' . . . These proverbs, which contain the wisdom of many... | |
 | 1899 - 394 Seiten
...declared by an American author to rank as "one of the most influential publications in the world; its proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry...of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue, were sown like seed all over the land." The Way to Wealth, by Benjamin Franklin, is the title of a... | |
 | 1901 - 502 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...always honestly, as, to use here one of those proverbs, /'/ is hard for an empty sack to stand upright. These proverbs, which contained the wisdom of many... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1902 - 688 Seiten
...the common people, who bought scarcely any other books; I therefore filled a!l the little spaces that occurred between the remarkable days in the calendar...want, to act always honestly, as, to use here one of these proverbs, it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright. " These proverbs, which contain the... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1903 - 600 Seiten
...it a useful means of conveying instruction to the common people, he filled every available corner " with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated...for an empty sack to stand upright." These proverbs, very few of which were original, represent the practical wisdom of many nations and nges. In 1758 he... | |
 | 1903 - 402 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...want to act always honestly, as, to use here one of these proverbs, "it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright" These proverbs, which contained the... | |
 | 1903 - 434 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...want to act always honestly, as, to use here one of these proverbs, " it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright." These proverbs, which contained the... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1903 - 358 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...chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality as a means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue ; it being more difficult for a man in want... | |
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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... 
