| 1856 - 780 páginas
...and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one thing you must buy ten more, that all may be of a piece. But poor Dick says: " It is easier to...is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich as the frog to swell in order to equal the bull. ADVICE. — Almost the only commodity which the world... | |
| 1856 - 372 páginas
...passions create. — Burton. DCLTX. Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece ; but it is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it. — Franklin, DCLX.... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1856 - 592 páginas
...beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ton more, that your appearance may be all of a piece ; but Poor Dick says, It is easier to suppress thr frst desire, than to satisfy all that follow it. And it is as truly foil}' for the poor to ape... | |
| John Timbs - 1856 - 374 páginas
...worse and more terrible than a lie : for ; / «n excuse is a lie guarded. — Pope. J DCXLVIII. muit buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece ; but it is easier to suppress the firat desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.— Fraxkli*. DCLX. It... | |
| Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1857 - 730 páginas
...consult, consult your purse. 3500. Pride is as lond a beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy. 3501. It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. 3502. Yessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep the shore. 3503. Pride that shines... | |
| William Chambers - 1858 - 378 páginas
...consult your purse.' And again : 'Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy.' When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more,...is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as the frog to swell in order to equal the ox. ' Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should... | |
| Robert Kemp Philp - 1858 - 454 páginas
...purse." 861. AND again, " Pride is as loud s beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy." 862. WHEN you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more,...Poor Dick says, "It is easier to suppress the first desiitf than to satisfy all that follow it ;" and it is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich,... | |
| Ferdinand E. A. Gasc - 1858 - 362 páginas
...taking out of (pniser A) the 19 'and with a great deal more meal-tub, without putting any- sauciness.' fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece ;l but poor Dick says, ' It is easier to suppress2 the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow... | |
| 1859 - 80 páginas
...dry, they know the worth of water. If you would know the value of money, go and try and borrow some. It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. Lying rides upon debt's back. It is hard for an empty purse to stand upright. Creditors have better... | |
| Sunbeams - 1861 - 368 páginas
...evil is from thee. — Cowper. Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece : it is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it. — Franklin. —... | |
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