 | 1910 - 272 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...' it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright.' " In the almanac Franklin introduced his proverbs by the phrase Poor Richard says, as if he were quoting... | |
 | Delphian Society - 1911 - 578 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...virtue ; it being more difficult for a man in want to always act honestly, as, to use here one of those proverbs, "It is hard for an empty sack to stand... | |
 | 1914 - 304 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...' it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright.' " In the almanac Franklin introduced his proverbs by the phrase Poor Richard says, as if he were quoting... | |
 | Martha Adelaide Holton, Charles Madison Curry - 1914 - 360 Seiten
...people, who bought scarcely any other books; I therefore filled all the little spaces that occurred 120 between the remarkable days in the calendar with proverbial...one of those proverbs, it is hard for an empty sack us to stand upright. These proverbs, which contained the wisdom of many ages and nations, I assembled... | |
 | Louis Arthur Holman - 1916 - 134 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,...proverbs, it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright. "I considered my newspaper, also, as another means of communicating instruction, and in that view frequently... | |
 | Louis Arthur Holman - 1916 - 134 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,...honestly, as, to use here one of those proverbs, it w hard for an empty sack to stand upright. "I considered my newspaper, also, as another means of communicating... | |
 | William Cabell Bruce - 1917 - 560 Seiten
...proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality, "as the means," he declared, "of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue;...proverbs, it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright." ' 1 Franklin was as fearless in applying his ethical principles to himself as to others. After telling... | |
 | William Cabell Bruce - 1917 - 560 Seiten
...proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality, "as the means," he declared, "of procuring wealth, . and thereby securing virtue;...those proverbs, it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright.'"1 1 Franklin was as fearless in applying his ethical principles to himself as to others.... | |
 | Albert Franklin Blaisdell, Francis Kingsley Ball - 1917 - 176 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...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,... | |
 | Percy Holmes Boynton - 1919 - 534 Seiten
...common people, who bought scarcely any other books. I therefore f1lled all the little spaces, that occurred between the remarkable days in the Calendar...proverbs, it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright." In the Almanac of 1757 he collected the sayings of the last twenty-five years into a timely essay on... | |
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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... 
