 | Brainerd Kellogg - 1884 - 486 Seiten
...calendar, with proverbial sentences, cliitfly such as inculcated industry and frugality as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue; it...into a connected discourse prefixed to the Almanac of 1737, as the harangue of a wise old man to the people attending an auction. The bringing nil these... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1884 - 598 Seiten
...calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue ; it...the wisdom of many ages and nations, I assembled and form'd into a connected discourse prefix'd to the Almanack of 1757, as the harangue of a wise old man... | |
 | John Thomas Scharf, Thompson Westcott - 1884 - 1012 Seiten
...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." To our minds it would not be easy to find in the sayings of wise men one less fit to be believed and... | |
 | John Thomas Scharf, Thompson Westcott - 1884 - 1004 Seiten
...calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue ; it...want to act always honestly, as, to use here one of 1114 1115 those proverbs, " It it hard for an empty sack to itand upright." To our minds it would not... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1884 - 362 Seiten
...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 man in want to act nlwnys honestly, as, to use here one of those proverbs, *It is hard for an empty sack to stand UDiight'... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1886 - 156 Seiten
...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 - 1886 - 256 Seiten
...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... | |
 | John Bach McMaster - 1887 - 316 Seiten
...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.' " But the difference between such sayings as set forth by Poor Richard, and such sayings as set forth... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1888 - 250 Seiten
...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... | |
 | John Kneeland, Henry Nathan Wheeler - 1891 - 508 Seiten
...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.' " In the almanac Franklin introduced his proverbs by the phrase Poor Richard says, as if he were quoting... | |
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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... 
