 | Rev. James Wood - 1893 - 694 Seiten
...Thomas à Kcmpis. Many delight more in giving of presents than in paying their debts. Sir P. Sidney. So dawning day has brought relief— / Fareweel our...yourself that persons SO who have been in your com Pr. Many find fault without any end, / And yet do nothing at all to mend. Pr. Many flowers open to... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 518 Seiten
...grindstone and die not worth a groat at last. ' A fat kitchen makes a lean will;' and '' ' Many estate« are spent in the getting, Since women for tea forsook spinning and knitting. And men for punch foraook hewing and splitting.' ' If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as of getting.... | |
 | 1896 - 454 Seiten
...the luxurious successors of the frugal improvers. Many estates are lost in the getting, Since woman, for tea forsook spinning and knitting, And men, for their punch, forsook hewing and splitting. — E. So another English proverb says — Industry is Fortune's right hand, and Frugality her left.... | |
 | Edward Arber - 1882 - 674 Seiten
...grindstone ; 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; A nd men, for Punch, forsook hen-ing and splitting. If you would be healthy, says he in another Almanac,... | |
 | 1896 - 460 Seiten
...the luxurious successors of the frugal improvers. Many estates are lost in the getting, Since woman, for tea forsook spinning and knitting, And men, for their punch, forsook hewing and splitting.—E. So another English proverb says—Industry is Fortune's right hand, and Frugality her... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1897 - 554 Seiten
...not worth a groat at last.' • A fat kitchen makes a lean will,' as poor Richard says, and, — 4 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... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - 1898 - 494 Seiten
...his 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.... | |
 | george rice carpenter - 1898 - 498 Seiten
...his 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.... | |
 | Alice Morse Earle - 1899 - 552 Seiten
...for weaving linen and spinning thread. Benjamin Franklin wrote in his Poor Richard's Almanac : — " Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women for tea forsook spinning and knitting." But the German colonists long before this had been famous flax-raisers. A Pennsylvania poet in 1692... | |
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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... 
