 | Fortunate men - 1884 - 192 Seiten
...life to the grind-stone, and die not worth a groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will;' and ' Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women...for tea forsook spinning and knitting, And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting.' ' If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as of getting.... | |
 | Osgood Eaton Fuller - 1884 - 564 Seiten
...life to the grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will;' and " ' Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women...for tea forsook spinning and knitting. And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting/ 'If you would be wealthy, think of saving, as well as of getting.... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1885 - 752 Seiten
...his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will;' and red the reason why the word of the lie should be such a disgrace and such a und knitting And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting. 'If you would be wealthy, think of saving,... | |
 | Frank McAlpine - 1886 - 456 Seiten
...life to the grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will;' and— 'Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women...for tea forsook spinning and knitting, And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting.' 'If you would be wealthy, think of saving, as well as of getting.... | |
 | Georgina Frederica Jackson - 1886 - 320 Seiten
...Shropihirc JTord-Book, av Piggin. BK. II. 1' 1> 3. Of Idleness and Luxury : ' Many estates are spent in getting Since women for tea forsook spinning and knitting, And men for their beer forsook hewing and splitting.' Chirbury. (See Hazlitt's Proverbt.) 4. Of Hours of Sleep : ' Nature... | |
 | 1887 - 1332 Seiten
...body without head. Ger. 177. Man, woman, and the devil are the three degrees of comparison. 489 179. Many estates are spent in the getting Since women...forsook spinning and knitting, And men for their punch hewing and splitting. 180. Many things make the honor of a man, few that of a woman. (Economy, modesty... | |
 | W & R CHAMBERS - 1887 - 238 Seiten
...and die not worth a groat at last." " A fat kitchen makes a lean will," as poor Richard says; and " Many estates are spent in the getting ; Since women...for tea forsook spinning and knitting, And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting." '" If you would be wealthy," says he, in another almanac, " think... | |
 | 1889 - 854 Seiten
...grindstone all his life, and die not ' jrth a groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will ; and " ' Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women...for tea forsook spinning and knitting, And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting. If yon would be wealthy, think of saving as well as of getting.... | |
 | William Babcock Weeden - 1890 - 542 Seiten
...p. 149. 4 Franklin's Works, Sparks's edition, ii. 95 et seq. 1745-62.] BIS SCIENCE OF ECONOMY. 709 " Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women...for tea forsook spinning and knitting, And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting." " Many a little makes a mickle. . . . Lying rides upon Debt's... | |
 | 1892 - 588 Seiten
...southernwood or old man. BC. 264. Lasses is cumbersome, Lads is lumbersome. Lincolnshire. AG. 162. Many estates are spent in (the) getting, Since women,...tea, forsook spinning and knitting, And men for their beer forsook hewing and splitting. Chirbury, Shropshire. AP. 578. In BC. 285, punch replaces " beer."... | |
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Business; but to these we must add Frugality, if we would make our Industry more certainly successful. A Man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his Nose all his Life to the Grindstone, and die not worth a Groat at last. A fat Kitchen makes... 
