 | Benjamin Franklin - 1912 - 274 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 always honestly,25 as, to use here one of those proverbs, it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright. These... | |
 | 1914 - 304 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... | |
 | Martha Adelaide Holton, Charles Madison Curry - 1914 - 360 Seiten
...calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue; it...one of those proverbs, it is hard for an empty sack us to stand upright. These proverbs, which contained the wisdom of many ages and nations, I assembled... | |
 | Louis Arthur Holman - 1916 - 134 Seiten
...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. "I considered my newspaper, also, as another means of communicating instruction, and in that view frequently... | |
 | Louis Arthur Holman - 1916 - 134 Seiten
...Calendar, with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue; it...honestly, as, to use here one of those proverbs, it w hard for an empty sack to stand upright. "I considered my newspaper, also, as another means of communicating... | |
 | Albert Franklin Blaisdell, Francis Kingsley Ball - 1917 - 176 Seiten
...calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality, as a means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue; it...' It is hard for an empty sack to stand upright.' " Franklin was too honest to claim that he made up all the maxims in Poor Richard. " Not a tenth part... | |
 | William Cabell Bruce - 1917 - 560 Seiten
...proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality, "as the means," he declared, "of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue; it...proverbs, it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright." ' 1 Franklin was as fearless in applying his ethical principles to himself as to others. After telling... | |
 | William Cabell Bruce - 1917 - 560 Seiten
...proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality, "as the means," he declared, "of procuring wealth, . and thereby securing virtue; it...those proverbs, it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright.'"1 1 Franklin was as fearless in applying his ethical principles to himself as to others.... | |
 | Percy Holmes Boynton - 1919 - 534 Seiten
...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." In the Almanac of 1757 he collected the sayings of the last twenty-five years into a timely essay on... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1921 - 280 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 ^hose proverbs, it is liard for an empty sack to stand upright] These proverbs, which contained the... | |
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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... 
