I therefore filled all the little spaces that occurred 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... Franklins̓ Autobiography - Seite 109von Benjamin Franklin - 1910 - 205 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Benjamin Franklin - 1895 - 310 Seiten
...days in the Calendar, with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and fruaglity, as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue; it being more hope the professed teachers of mankind will excuse my scattering here and there some instructive hints... | |
| Fred Lewis Pattee - 1896 - 508 Seiten
...little spaces that occurred between the remarkable days in the calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality...empty sack to stand upright.' These proverbs, which contain the wisdom of many ages and nations, I assembled and formed into a connected discourse, prefixed... | |
| Fred Lewis Pattee - 1896 - 496 Seiten
...little spaces that occurred between the remarkable days in the calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality...empty sack to stand upright.' These proverbs, which contain the wisdom of many ages and nations, I assembled and formed into a connected discourse, prefixed... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1896 - 250 Seiten
...little spaces that occurred between the remarkable days in the calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality...those proverbs, it is hard for an empty sack to stand vpright. These proverbs, which contained the wisdom of many ages and nations, I assembled and formed... | |
| Brainerd Kellogg - 1896 - 500 Seiten
...little spaces, that occurred between the remarkable days in the calendar, with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality...as, to use here one of those proverbs, It is hard fur an empty sack to stand upright. These proverbs, which contained the wisdom of many ages and nations,... | |
| 1896 - 124 Seiten
...smoothness of action almost conceals its power. The Almanac of Poor Richard, with its "proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality...of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue," prove him to be among the most distinguished moralists who have ever lived, for he taught humanity... | |
| 1896 - 690 Seiten
...little spaces that occurred between the remarkable days in the calendar, with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality,...the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing ВУ virtue ; it being more difficult iftl for man in want to act always honestly, as, to use here... | |
| Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1897 - 554 Seiten
...conveying instruction to the common people, he rilled every available corner <rwTEh proverbial semencesT chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality...as, to use here one of those proverbs, it is hard far an empty sack to stand upright." These proverbs, very few of which were original, represent the... | |
| 1900 - 594 Seiten
...the demand." Of the proverbs, Franklin says, in his autobiography : " These proverbs, which contain the wisdom of many ages and nations, I assembled and formed into a connected discourse, prefixed to the almanac of 1758, as the harangue of a wise old man to the people attending... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1899 - 204 Seiten
...little spaces that occurred between the remarkable days in the calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality...and nations, I assembled and formed into a connected discourse prefixed to 133 the Almanac of 1757, as the harangue of a wise old man to the people attending... | |
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