| Benjamin Franklin - 1905 - 496 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... | |
| Massachusetts - 1906 - 124 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... | |
| Massachusetts - 1906 - 124 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... | |
| Franklin Bi-centennial Joint Committee (Boston, Mass.) - 1906 - 132 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... | |
| John Gay - 1711 - 86 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... | |
| 1902 - 438 страници
...Calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue; it being more difficult for a man in want to always act honestly, as, to use here one of those proverbs, “It is hard for an empty sack to stand... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1909 - 236 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 - 1910 - 216 страници
...calendar with proverbial sentences,2 chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue ; it...and nations, I assembled and formed into a connected discourse,3 prefixed to the Almanac of 1757 as the harangue of a wise old 1 Almanacs were the first... | |
| 1910 - 272 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... | |
| Delphian Society - 1911 - 578 страници
...Calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue ; it being more difficult for a man in want to always act honestly, as, to use here one of those proverbs, "It is hard for an empty sack to stand... | |
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