| William Chambers - 1858 - Страниц: 378
...poor person, there are a hundred indigent.' By these and other extravagances, the genteel are reduced to poverty, and forced to borrow of those whom they...maintained their standing; in which case it appears plainly 'A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees,' as poor Richard says. Perhaps they... | |
| Ferdinand E. A. Gasc - 1858 - Страниц: 362
...lii1lichis Ken avant de profiler have them ? 1 By these and other extravagances, the genteel 2 are reduced to poverty, and forced to borrow of those whom they...through industry and frugality, have maintained their standing;5 in which case, it appears plainly,4 that ' A ploughman on his legs is higher5 than a gentleman... | |
| Elliot G. Storke - 1859 - Страниц: 832
...look pretty, how many want to have them ? By these and other extravagances, the genteel are reduced to poverty, and forced to borrow of those whom they...on his knees," as Poor Richard says. Perhaps they had a small estate left them, which they knew not the getting of; they think "it is day, and will never... | |
| Charles Walton Sanders - 1859 - Страниц: 482
...look pretty, how many want to have them [ By these, and other extravagances, the genteel are reduced to poverty, and forced to borrow of those whom they...than a gentleman on his knees, as Poor Richard says. 11. " Perhaps they have had a small estate left them, which they knew not the getting of: they think,... | |
| 1862 - Страниц: 582
...trade," says Franklin, " hath an estate ; and he that hath a calling hath a place of profit and honor. A plowman on his legs, is higher than a gentleman on his knees." TRANSUBSTANTIATION. — The absurdity of the popish doctrine of transubstantiation was once strikingly... | |
| 1862 - Страниц: 588
...small leak will sink a great ship. An ounce of wit that is bought is worth a pound that is taught. A plowman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees. What maintains one vice will bring up two children. When prosperity was well mounted, she let go the... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1864 - Страниц: 260
...extravagances, the genteel are reduced to poverty, and forced to borrow of those whom they formeHy despised, but who, through industry and frugality,...their standing ; in which case, it appears plainly, " A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees," as poor Richard says. Perhaps they... | |
| Charles Walton Sanders - 1866 - Страниц: 396
...many want to have them ! By these, and other extravagances, the genteel are reduced to poverty, aud forced to borrow of those whom they formerly despised...than a gentleman on his knees, as Poor Richard says. 11. " Perhaps, they have had a small estate left them, which they knew not the getting of: they think,... | |
| Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1866 - Страниц: 236
...pretty, how many want to have them ? — By these, and other extravagances, the genteel are reduced to poverty, and forced to borrow of those whom they...standing ; in which case it appears plainly, that ' A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knee,' as Poor Richard says. Perhaps they have... | |
| 1866 - Страниц: 882
...civil manners will ever be distinguished among us from the vulgar and clownish. Franklin truly says: ٿ 8g z e ţˬ z T n $G I e& ] & tf D{ Y.;# A9 We need not lose time in giving the wellknown etymologies of the word or its meaning in the English... | |
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