 | Benjamin Franklin - 1779 - 610 trang
...is pradlifed ' every day at auctions, for want of minding the ' Almanack. Many a one, for the fake of finery * on the back, have gone with a hungry belly, and half ftarved their families ; " bilks and fattins, fcarlet and velvets, put out the kitchen-fire,"... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 1780 - 612 trang
...folly is p raft i fed every day at auctions, for want of minding the Almanack. Many a one, for the fake of finery on the back, have gone with a hungry belly, and half ftarved their families ; " Silks and fattins, fcarlet and velvets, put out the kitchen- fire,"... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1780 - 614 trang
...folly is praftifed every day at audions, for want of minding the Almanack. Many a one, for the fake of finery on the back, have gone with a hungry belly, and half ftarved their families; " Silks and fattins, fcarlet and velvets, put out the kitchen-fire," as... | |
 | several hands - 1780 - 612 trang
...folly is praftifed every day at auctions, for want of minding the Almanack. Many a one, for the fake of finery on the back, have gone with a hungry belly, and half ftarvcd their families ; " Silks and fattins, fparlet and velvets, put out the kitchen- fire,"... | |
 | 1792 - 494 trang
...folly is praftifed every day at auetions, for want of minding the Almanack. Many a one, for the fake of finery on the back, have gone with a hungry belly, and half rtarvid their families ; u Silk) and fattins, fcarlet and velvets, put out the kitchen-fire,"... | |
 | 1796 - 34 trang
...repentance;" and yet this follv is practised every day at auctions, for want of minding the Almanack. Many a one, for the sake of finery on the back, have gone with a hungry belly, and half starved their families; " Silks and sattins, scarlets and velvets, put out the kitchen-fire,"... | |
 | 1797 - 522 trang
...folly is pradtifed every day at auctions, for want of minding the Almanack. Many a one, for the fake of finery on the back, have gone with a hungry belly, and half 2ar»ed their families; "Silks and fattins, fcarlet and velvets, put oat the kitchen-fire," is... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1797 - 516 trang
...folly is practifed every day at auclions, for want of minding the Almanack. Many a one, for the fake of finery on the back, have gone with a hungry belly, and half flarved their families; "Silks and fattins, fcarlet and velvets, put out the kitchen-fire," as... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1820 - 72 trang
...place he says, ' Many have been ruined by buying good penny-worths.' Again, poor Richard says, ' 'Tis foolish to lay out money in a purchase of repentance ; and yet this folly is practised every day at sales, for want of minding the almanac.' ' Wise men,' as poor Dick says, ' learn by other's harm, fools... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1804 - 78 trang
...another place he says, " Many have been ruined by buyifig good pennyworths." Again poor Richard says, "It is foolish to lay out money in a purchase of repentance;"...practised every day at auctions, for want of minding the almanack. "Wise men (as poor Dick says) learn by others harms, fools scarcely by their own ; but happy... | |
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He means, that perhaps the cheapness is apparent only, and not real; or the bargain, by straitening thee in thy business, may do thee more harm than good. For in another place he says, Many have been ruined by buying good pennyworths. 
