So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business, but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, "keep his nose all his life to the grindstone,... Inquire Within for Anything You Want to Know - Page 152by Robert Kemp Philp - 1858 - 428 pagesFull view - About this book
| Chapbooks - 1796 - 34 pages
...industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, " keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will;" andi " Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women for tea forsook spinning and knitting, And... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1820 - 72 pages
...injlus*»y more certainly successful. A man may,ae knows not how to save as he gets, 'keep his nose all his life to the grind-stone, and die not worth...makes a lean will ;' and, ' Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women for tea forsook spinning and knit.tinS> And men for punch forsook hewing and... | |
| Gleaner - 1805 - 426 pages
...industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, " Keep his nose, all his life, to the grindstone, and die not worth...makes a lean will ;" and " Many estates are spent in the getting, " Since women, for tea, forsook spinning and knitting, " And men, for punch, forsook hewing... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - American literature - 1806 - 590 pages
...industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, " keep his nose all his life to the grind-stone, and die not worth a groat at last. A fat kitchen mates a lean wilJ ;" and " Many estates are spent in the getting. Since women for tea forsook spinning... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1806 - 586 pages
...industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, « keep his nose all his life to the grind-stone, and die not worth a groat at last. A fat kitchiti makes a lean will; and " Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women for tea forsook... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, " keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth...makes a lean will ; and, " Many estates are spent in the getting Since women tor tea forsook spinning and knitting. And men for punch forsook hewing and... | |
| James Plumptre - English drama - 1812 - 424 pages
...industry more certainly successful. " A man may," if he knows not how to save as he gets, " keep his nose all his life to the grind-stone, " and die not worth...groat at last." " A fat kitchen. " makes a lean will ;" " Many estntes are spent in the getting, " Since women for tea forsook spioning and knitting, "... | |
| 1812 - 314 pages
...industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knmvs not how to save as he gets. " keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth...groat at last." " A fat kitchen makes a lean will," as poor Richard says ; and, " Many estates are spent in the getting ; since women for tea, forsook... | |
| George Miller - 1813 - 638 pages
...certainly i uccessful. A man, may, if lie knows not how to save ee he gets, " keep his nose all hi* life to the grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last." «' A fat kitchen makec a lean vi 111," as poor Rkhard says j and, " Many estates are spent in the getting ; Since women... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1819 - 520 pages
...industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his hose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth...A fat kitchen makes a lean will; and, Many estates tire spent in the getting, Since women for tea forsook spinning and knitting, And men for punch forsook... | |
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