 | Benjamin Franklin - 1905 - 496 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... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1906 - 124 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... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1906 - 128 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... | |
 | Franklin Bi-centennial Joint Committee (Boston, Mass.) - 1906 - 132 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 Gay - 1711 - 86 Seiten
...calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality as the means of procuring wealth and thereby securing virtue, it being...want to act always honestly, as, to use here one of these proverbs, " it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright." These proverbs, which contained the... | |
 | 1902 - 438 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 always act honestly, as, to use here one of those proverbs, “It is hard for an empty sack to stand... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1909 - 236 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 - 1910 - 216 Seiten
...calendar with proverbial sentences,2 chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue ; it...and nations, I assembled and formed into a connected discourse,3 prefixed to the Almanac of 1757 as the harangue of a wise old 1 Almanacs were the first... | |
 | 1910 - 272 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... | |
 | Delphian Society - 1911 - 578 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 always act honestly, as, to use here one of those proverbs, "It is hard for an empty sack to stand... | |
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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... 
