These are not the Necessaries of Life; they can scarcely be called the Conveniences, and yet only because they look pretty, how many want to have them. The artificial Wants of Mankind thus become more numerous than the natural; and, as Poor Dick says,... The Scots Magazine - Стр. 241777Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| George Rice Carpenter - 1916 - Страниц: 798
...are not the Necessaries of Life; they can scarcely be called the Conveniences; and yet only because they look pretty, how many want to have them! The...more numerous than the Natural; and, as Poor Dick says, for one poor Person, there are an hundred Indigent. By these, and other Extravagancies, the Genteel... | |
| Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1922 - Страниц: 518
...are not the necessaries of life; they can scarcely be called the conveniences; and yet, only because they look pretty, how many want to have them! The...become more numerous than the natural; and as Poor Dick says, "for one poor person there are a hundred indigent." By these and other extravagances the genteel... | |
| Robert Shafer - 1926 - Страниц: 1410
...are not the Necessaries of Life; they can scarcely be called the Conveniences; and yet only because they look pretty, how many want to have them! The...more numerous than the Natural; and, as Poor Dick says, for one poor Person, there are an hundred indigent. By these, and other extravagancies, the Genteel... | |
| Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - 1927 - Страниц: 1288
...are not the necessaries of life; they can scarcely be called the conveniences; and yet only because they look pretty, how many want to have them! The...more numerous than the natural, and, as Poor Dick says, for one poor person, there arc an hundred indigent. By these, and other extravagancies, the genteel... | |
| William Gardiner - 1927 - Страниц: 328
...are not the necessaries of life; they can scarcely be called the conveniences; and yet, only because they look pretty, how many want to have them! The artificial wants of mankind thus becomes more numerous than the natural; and, as Poor Dick says, For one poor person ihere are a hundred... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1998 - Страниц: 404
...are not the Necessaries of Life; they can scarcely be called the Conveniencies, and yet only because they look pretty, how many want to have them. The...more numerous than the natural; and, as Poor Dick says, For one poor Person, there are an hundred indigent. By these, and other Extravagancies, the Genteel... | |
| Walter Isaacson - 2005 - Страниц: 576
...are not the necessaries of life; they can scarcely be called the conveniencies, and yet only because they look pretty, how many want to have them. The...more numerous than the natural; and, as Poor Dick says, for one poor person, there are an hundred indigent. By these, and other extravagancies, the genteel... | |
| Jerome M. Segal - 2003 - Страниц: 302
...Richard says, Many a Little makes a Mickle. ... A small Leak will sink a great Ship." He continued, "The artificial Wants of Mankind thus become more numerous than the Natural. . . . When you have bought one fine Thing, you must buy ten more, that your Appearance may be all of... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 2004 - Страниц: 320
...are not the Necessaries of Life; they can scarcely be called the Conveniencies, and yet only because they look pretty, how many want to have them. The...more numerous than the natural; and, as Poor Dick says, For one poor Person, there are an hundred indigent. By these, and other Extravagancies, the Genteel... | |
| Erin Barrett, Jack Mingo - 2004 - Страниц: 132
...are not the necessaries of life; they can scarcely be called the conveniences, and yet, only because they look pretty, how many want to have them! The...mankind thus become more numerous than the natural; and, for one poor person, there are a hundred indigent. A Jewish sage named Moses Maimonides made a similar... | |
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