 | Paul Leicester Ford - 1899 - 554 страници
...calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue ; it...want to act always honestly, as, to use here one of these proverbs, 'it is hani for an empty sack to stand upright.' " It is hardly necessary to state... | |
 | 1901 - 502 страници
...calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue ; it...always honestly, as, to use here one of those proverbs, /'/ is hard for an empty sack to stand upright. These proverbs, which contained the wisdom of many... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1902 - 688 страници
...calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue; it...want, to act always honestly, as, to use here one of these proverbs, it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright. " These proverbs, which contain the... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1903 - 600 страници
...corner " with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and' frugality as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue; it...for an empty sack to stand upright." These proverbs, very few of which were original, represent the practical wisdom of many nations and nges. In 1758 he... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1903 - 358 страници
...calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality as a means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue ; it...want to act always honestly, as, to use here one of the proverbs, it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright. . . . "These proverbs, which contain the... | |
 | 1903 - 434 страници
...calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality as the means of procuring wealth and thereby securing virtue, it being...want to act always honestly, as, to use here one of these proverbs, " it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright." These proverbs, which contained the... | |
 | 1903 - 402 страници
...calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality as the means of procuring wealth and thereby securing virtue, it being...want to act always honestly, as, to use here one of these proverbs, "it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright" These proverbs, which contained the... | |
 | 1904 - 496 страници
...calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue ; it...' it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright.' " In the almanac Franklin introduced his proverbs by the phrase Poor Richard says, as if he were quoting... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1905 - 238 страници
...calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue; it...formed into a connected discourse prefixed to the Almanack of 1757, as the harangue of a wise old man to the people attending an auction. The bringing... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1905 - 354 страници
...calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue ; it...the wisdom of many ages and nations, I assembled and form'd into a connected discourse prefix'd to the Almanack of 1757, as the harangue of a wise old man... | |
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I therefore filled all the little spaces that occurred between the remarkable days in the calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue ; it being more... 
