 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck, Lura E. Runkel - 1921 - 680 страници
...as inculcated industry and frugality as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue. These proverbs, which contained the wisdom of many...connected discourse, prefixed to the Almanac of 1757 us the harangue of a wise old man to the people attending an auction. The bringing all these scattered... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1922 - 518 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 wisdom... | |
 | Brander Matthews - 1922 - 314 страници
...to contain "proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue; —...want to act always honestly, as to use here one of these proverbs, 'it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright.'" Most of these proverbs were borrowed... | |
 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 страници
...calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality as the means of o~w R ' ? L9Oێ. 6 W -[ { 9 k x͊w<tؗ V 偿> ? t _~ ᪱kȻb ~ ր߶> ] or an empty sack to stand upright. what Reason I know not, have ever been very sparing in their Applauses,... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - 1927 - 1288 страници
...calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue; it...as, to use here one of those proverbs, it is hard /or an empty sack to stand upright. '30 40 Sun. M. T. w. Th. F. 8. Tern. Sil. * * * * Ord. * * * *... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1927 - 344 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... | |
 | Henry Seidel Canby - 1927 - 336 страници
...to contain "proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue —...want to act always honestly, as, to use here one of these proverbs, 'it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright.' " Most of these proverbs were borrowed... | |
 | 1929 - 506 страници
...calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality ns the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue; it...always honestly, as, to use here one of those proverbs, U is liar d for an tmptti sack to ttand upright. Franklin did not originate all the sayings of Poor... | |
 | James L. Machor - 1987 - 292 страници
...material and the moral is reciprocal. If virtue abets economic gain, economic independence is a means of "securing Virtue, it being more difficult for a Man in Want to act always honestly, as ... it is hard for an empty Sack to stand upright. "87 Through his own example, Franklin suggests that... | |
 | Jeffery A. Smith - 1990 - 246 страници
...filled it "with Proverbial Sentences, chiefly such as inculcated Industry and Frugality, as the Means of procuring Wealth and thereby securing Virtue, it being...difficult for a Man in Want to act always honestly." He informed the readers of his memoirs that he considered his Pennsylvania Gazette "another Means of... | |
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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... 
