 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 páginas
...wrote to Bolingbroke :— ' I have made a maxim that should be writ in letters of diamond, that a wise man ought to have money in his head, but not in his heart.' Ib. xvii. 239. The same year he wrote : — ' 1 want only to be rich, for I am hard to be pleased ;... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1913 - 522 páginas
...matters. And, my Lord, I have made a maxim, that should be writ in letters of diamonds, that a wise man ought to have money in his head, but not in his heart.1 Pray, my Lord, inquire whether your prototype, my Lord Digby, after the Restoration, when he... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1926 - 396 páginas
...matters. And, my Lord, I have made a maxim, that should be writ in letters of diamonds, that a wise man ought to have money in his head, but not in his heart. Pray, my Lord, inquire whether your prototype, my Lord Digby, after the Restoration, when he was at Bristol, did not... | |
 | Christopher Fox - 2003 - 306 páginas
...David Bindon's translation of Melon's Essai Politique sur le Commerce (Dublin, 1738). 36. "That a wise man ought to have Money in his head, but not in his heart": see C in: 328. 8 IAN HIGGINS Language and style Jonathan Swift had a lifelong interest in the English... | |
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I have made a maxim, that should be writ in letters of diamonds, that a wise man ought to have money in his head, but not in his heart. 
