| Hartmut Lehmann, Guenther Roth - 1995 - 420 trang
...Weber, explains Baumgarten, did not get the jokes! When Franklin advises his young tradesman that "he that murders a crown, destroys all that it might have produced, even scores of pounds" (PE 49), Weber believes that "the ethical quality of the sermon ... is impossible to mistake, and that... | |
| Joyce Oldham Appleby - 1996 - 578 trang
...and quicker. He that kills a breedingsow, destroys all her offspring to the thousandth generation. He that murders a crown, destroys all that it might have produced, even scores of pounds." "Remember this saying, The good paymaster is lord of another man's purse. He that is known to pay punctually... | |
| Patrick Murray - 1997 - 510 trang
...and quicker. He that kills a breedingsow, destroys all her offspring to the thousandth generation. He that murders a crown, destroys all that it might have produced, even scores of pounds." "Remember this saying, The good paymaster is lord of another man's purse. He that is known to pay punctually... | |
| Richard Swedberg - 1998 - 330 trang
...begets money: "He that kills a breeding-sow, destroys all her offspring to the thousandth generation. He that murders (!) a crown, destroys all that it might have produced, even scores of pounds." At one point in his autobiography Franklin also quotes a passage from the Bible that his Calvinist... | |
| Max Weber - 1999 - 334 trang
...quicker. He that kills a breeding-sow, destroys all her offspring to the thousandth generation. He that murders a crown, destroys all that it might have produced, even scores of pounds. Remember this saying, The good paymaster is lord of another man's purse. He that is known to pay punctually... | |
| Stephen Turner - 2000 - 316 trang
...... He that kills a breeding sow, destroys all her offspring down to the thousandth generation. He that murders a crown, destroys all that it might have produced, even scores of pounds" (E&S 48-49). 35 These and other such maxims of that period are taken by Weber as representing a fundamentally... | |
| Thomas L. Haskell - 2000 - 446 trang
...interest. . . . He that kills a breeding-sow, destroys all her offspring to the thousandth generation. He that murders a crown, destroys all that it might have produced, even scores of pounds. . . . He that loses five shillings, not only loses that sum, but all the advantage that might be made... | |
| Bernard S. Phillips - 268 trang
...so on.... He that kills a breeding-sow, destroys all her offspring to the thousandth generation. He that murders a crown, destroys all that it might have produced, even scores of pounds.... The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at... | |
| Richard P. Horwitz - 2001 - 420 trang
...destroys all her offspring to the thousandth generation. He that murders a crown [five-shilling coin], destroys all that it might have produced, even scores of pounds. Remember this saying, The good paymaster is lord of another man's purse. He that is known to pay punctually... | |
| Richard R. Ellsworth - 2002 - 423 trang
...quicker. He that kills a breeding-sow, destroys all her offspring to the thousandth generation. He that murders a crown, destroys all that it might have produced, even scores of pounds. The Way to Wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the Way to Market. It depends chiefly on two Words,... | |
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