 | Washington Irving - 1822 - 424 trang
...between a proud mind and an empty purse — the keeping up a hollow show that must soon come to an end. Have the courage to appear poor, and you disarm poverty...his wife, she was only anxious to conform to their altered fortunes. Some days afterwards he called upon me in the evening. He had disposed of his dwellinghouse,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1820 - 364 trang
...between a proud mind and an empty purse — the keeping up a hollow show that must soon come to an end. Have the courage to appear poor, and you disarm poverty...his wife, she was only anxious to conform to their altered fortunes. Some days afterwards he called upon me in the evening. He had disposed of his dwellinghouse,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 trang
...between a proud mind and an empty purse — the keeping up a hollow show that must soon come to an end. Have the courage to appear poor, and you disarm poverty...his wife, she was only anxious to conform to their altered fortunes. Some days afterwards he called upon me in the evening. He had disposed of his dwellinghouse,... | |
 | Cabinet - 1824 - 440 trang
...between a proud mind and an empty purse — the keeping up a hollow show that must soon come to an end. Have the courage to appear poor, and you disarm poverty...his wife, she was only anxious to conform to their altered fortunes. Some days afterwards he called upon me in the evening. He had disposed of his dwelling... | |
 | John Arliss - 1825 - 382 trang
...hetween a proud mind and an empty purse — the keeping up a hollow show that must soon come to an end. Have the courage to appear poor, and you disarm poverty...his wife, she was only anxious to conform to their altered fortuneo. Some days afterwards he called upon me in the evening. He had disposed of his dwelling-house,... | |
 | Ethics - 1828 - 234 trang
...not only to justify, but 'to glorify him in all that is brought upon us. No. 176.] POVERTY. [MoNDAY. HAVE the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting. Affluence may give us respect, in the eyes of the vulgar, but it will not recommend us to the wise... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1830 - 346 trang
...between a proud mind and an empty purse — the keeping up a hollow show that must soon come to an end. Have the courage to appear poor, and you disarm poverty...his wife, she was only anxious to conform to their altered fortunes. Some days afterwards he called upon me in the evening. He had disposed of his dwelling-house,... | |
 | 1832 - 410 trang
...show that must soon come to an end. Have the courage to appear poor, a.nd you disarm poverty of ita sharpest sting." On this point I found Leslie perfectly...his wife, she was only anxious to conform to their altered fortunes. Some days afterwards, he called upon me in the evening. He had disposed of his dwellinghouse,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1834 - 320 trang
...between a proud mind and an empty purse — the keeping up a hollow show that must soon come to an end. Have the courage to appear poor, and you disarm poverty...his wife, she was only anxious to conform to their altered fortunes. Some days afterwards he called upon me in the evening. He had disposed of his dwellinghouse,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 284 trang
...between a proud mind and an empty purse— the keeping up a hollow show that must soon come to an end. Have the courage to appear poor, and you disarm poverty...his wife, she was only anxious to conform to their altered fortunes. Some days afterwards he called upon me in the evening. He had disposed of his dwelling-house,... | |
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It is not poverty so much as pretence, that harasses a ruined man — the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse — the keeping up a hollow show that must soon come to an end. Have the courage to appear poor, and you disarm poverty of its sharpest... 
