...poor person, there are a hundred indigent.' By these and other extravagances, the genteel are reduced to poverty, and forced to borrow of those whom they...maintained their standing; in which case it appears plainly 'A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees,' as poor Richard says. Perhaps they...

...lii1lichis Ken avant de profiler have them ? 1 By these and other extravagances, the genteel 2 are reduced to poverty, and forced to borrow of those whom they...through industry and frugality, have maintained their standing;5 in which case, it appears plainly,4 that ' A ploughman on his legs is higher5 than a gentleman...

...look pretty, how many want to have them ? By these and other extravagances, the genteel are reduced to poverty, and forced to borrow of those whom they...on his knees," as Poor Richard says. Perhaps they had a small estate left them, which they knew not the getting of; they think "it is day, and will never...

...look pretty, how many want to have them [ By these, and other extravagances, the genteel are reduced to poverty, and forced to borrow of those whom they...than a gentleman on his knees, as Poor Richard says. 11. " Perhaps they have had a small estate left them, which they knew not the getting of: they think,...

...trade," says Franklin, " hath an estate ; and he that hath a calling hath a place of profit and honor. A plowman on his legs, is higher than a gentleman on his knees." TRANSUBSTANTIATION. — The absurdity of the popish doctrine of transubstantiation was once strikingly...

...small leak will sink a great ship. An ounce of wit that is bought is worth a pound that is taught. A plowman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees. What maintains one vice will bring up two children. When prosperity was well mounted, she let go the...

...extravagances, the genteel are reduced to poverty, and forced to borrow of those whom they formeHy despised, but who, through industry and frugality,...their standing ; in which case, it appears plainly, " A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees," as poor Richard says. Perhaps they...

...many want to have them ! By these, and other extravagances, the genteel are reduced to poverty, aud forced to borrow of those whom they formerly despised...than a gentleman on his knees, as Poor Richard says. 11. " Perhaps, they have had a small estate left them, which they knew not the getting of: they think,...

...pretty, how many want to have them ? — By these, and other extravagances, the genteel are reduced to poverty, and forced to borrow of those whom they...standing ; in which case it appears plainly, that ' A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knee,' as Poor Richard says. Perhaps they have...

...civil manners will ever be distinguished among us from the vulgar and clownish. Franklin truly says: ٿ 8g z e ţˬ z T n $G I e& ] & tf D{ Y.;# A9 We need not lose time in giving the wellknown etymologies of the word or its meaning in the English...