 | Benjamin Franklin - 1864 - 260 Seiten
...not worth a eroal at last."* " A fat kitchen makes a lean will]" as poor Richard says j and, . . " Many estates are spent in the getting ; Since women...for tea forsook spinning and knitting, And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting." 13 "If you would be wealthy (says he, in another Almanack), think... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1866 - 236 Seiten
...grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will ;' and — ' Many estates arc 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.... | |
 | William H. Ablett - 1867 - 94 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.... | |
 | 1867 - 726 Seiten
...the winner should always be ahead of the spender. Poor Bichard says : " ilany estates are spent in getting, Since women for tea forsook spinning and knitting. And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting." And again, " Silks and sating, scarlet« and velvets, put out... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1872 - 432 Seiten
...grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will." " Many estates are spent in getting, Since women for tea forsook spinning and knitting, And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting." • Houlston and Sons, London. U. If you would be wealthy, think... | |
 | Jeremiah Chaplin - 1876 - 416 Seiten
...life to the grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last. " A fat kitchen makes a lean mill ; " and "Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women...for tea forsook spinning and knitting, And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting." " ' And further, " What maintains one vice would bring up two... | |
 | Godfrey Golding - 1877 - 268 Seiten
...grindstone all his life, 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.... | |
 | sir Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave - 1882 - 250 Seiten
...and die not worth a groat at last." " A fat rtchen 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... | |
 | William Carew Hazlitt - 1882 - 586 Seiten
...Many drops of water will sink a ship. Many estates are spent in the getting, since women, for ten, forsook spinning and knitting, and men, for their punch, forsook hewing and splitting. Many for folly themselves foredo. Haw the Goodc Wif, &c., in Hazlitt's Pap. Poetry, i. Many frosts... | |
 | Georgina Frederica Jackson - 1883 - 694 Seiten
...porridge, Missis an' broth, Madam an' tay.' 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 Frorerbi.) 4. Of Hours of Sleep : ' Nature... | |
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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... 
