| Benjamin Franklin - 1912 - 274 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 act always honestly,25 as, to use here one of those proverbs, it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright. These... | |
| 1914 - 304 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... | |
| Martha Adelaide Holton, Charles Madison Curry - 1914 - 360 страници
...calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue; it...one of those proverbs, it is hard for an empty sack us to stand upright. These proverbs, which contained the wisdom of many ages and nations, I assembled... | |
| Louis Arthur Holman - 1916 - 134 страници
...Calendar, with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue; it...proverbs, it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright. "I considered my newspaper, also, as another means of communicating instruction, and in that view frequently... | |
| Louis Arthur Holman - 1916 - 134 страници
...Calendar, with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue; it...honestly, as, to use here one of those proverbs, it w hard for an empty sack to stand upright. "I considered my newspaper, also, as another means of communicating... | |
| Albert Franklin Blaisdell, Francis Kingsley Ball - 1917 - 176 страници
...calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality, as a means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue; it...' It is hard for an empty sack to stand upright.' " Franklin was too honest to claim that he made up all the maxims in Poor Richard. " Not a tenth part... | |
| William Cabell Bruce - 1917 - 560 страници
...proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality, "as the means," he declared, "of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue; it...proverbs, it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright." ' 1 Franklin was as fearless in applying his ethical principles to himself as to others. After telling... | |
| William Cabell Bruce - 1917 - 560 страници
...proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality, "as the means," he declared, "of procuring wealth, . and thereby securing virtue; it...those proverbs, it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright.'"1 1 Franklin was as fearless in applying his ethical principles to himself as to others.... | |
| Percy Holmes Boynton - 1919 - 534 страници
...Calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue ; it...proverbs, it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright." In the Almanac of 1757 he collected the sayings of the last twenty-five years into a timely essay on... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1921 - 280 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 ^hose proverbs, it is liard for an empty sack to stand upright] These proverbs, which contained the... | |
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