 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 páginas
...Calendar, with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue; it...formed into a connected discourse prefixed to the Almanack of 1757, as the harangue of a wise old man to the people attending an auction : the bringing... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 558 páginas
...Calendar, with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculeated industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue; it...those proverbs) " it is hard for an empty sack to ttand upright" These proverbs which contained the wisdom of many ages and nations, I assembled and... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 páginas
...calendar, with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue; it...proverbs,) "it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright." 14 These proverbs which contained the wisdom of many ages and nations, I assembled and formed into... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 336 páginas
...calendar, with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as> inculcated industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue; it...proverbs,) "it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright. " 14 These proverbs which contained the wisdom of many ages and nations, I assembled and formed into... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 682 páginas
...Calendar, with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and rugality, as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue ; it...being more difficult for a man in want to act always lonestly, as (to use here one of those proverbs) " ii is hard for an empty sack to stand upright.'"... | |
 | Orville Luther Holley - 1848 - 522 páginas
...calendar, with proverbial sentences ; chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue ; it..." It is hard for an empty sack to stand upright." When about to relinquish the publication of his almanac, he gathered these scattered maxims together,... | |
 | Orville Luther Holley - 1848 - 534 páginas
...calendar, with proverbial sentences ; chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue ; it being more difficult for a 7nan in want to act always honestly, as, to use here one of those proverbs, " It is hard for an empty... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1849 - 652 páginas
...hard for an empty Back to stand upright/ ' These proverbs,' continuée FRANKLIN, in his autobiography, 'which contained the wisdom of many ages and nations,...formed into a connected discourse, prefixed to the Almnnac of 1758, as the harangue of a wise old man to the people attending an auction. The bringing... | |
 | 1849 - 970 páginas
...securing virtue ; 'for/ said the author, 'it la more difficult for a man in want to act honestly, than it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright.' ' These proverbs. ' continues FRANKLIN, in his autobiography, 'which contained the wisdom of many age* and nations, I... | |
 | 1856 - 378 páginas
...Xvil lendar with proverb sentenees, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue; it...for a man in want to act always honestly, as, to use hero one of those proverbs, ' It is hard for an empty sack to stand upright.' " He afterwards gathered... | |
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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... 
