 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1825 - 324 pages
...Our eyes, though exceedingly useful, ask, when reasonable, only the cheap assistance of spectacles, which could not much impair our finances. But the...other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses. nor fine furniture. ON THE SLAVE... | |
 | United States - 1826 - 440 pages
...exceedingly useful, ask, when reasonable, only the cheap assistance of spectacles, which .woul^ not inuch impair our finances. But the eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, houses, nor fine furniture. No. 3. ' .' ' OBSERVATIONS... | |
 | Willard Phillips - Economics - 1828 - 286 pages
...exceedingly useful, ask, when reasonable, only the cheap assistance of a pair of spectacles, which cannot much impair our finances. But the eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture." Vanity, fashion,... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...Our eyes, though exceedingly useful, ask, when reasonable, only the cheap assistance of spectacles, which could not much impair our finances. But the...other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, 1 should want neither fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture. — Franklin.... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 358 pages
...Our eyes, though exceedmgly useful, ask, when reasonable, only the cheap assistance of spectacles, which could not much impair our finances. But the...other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture.—Prnnfclin.... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 pages
...Our eyes, though exceedingly useful, ask, when reasonable, only the cheap assistance of spectacles, which could not much impair our finances. But the...other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture. SECTION IV.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1831 - 314 pages
...reasonahle, only the cheap assistance of spectacles, which could not much impair our finances. Rut the eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all hut myself were hlind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture. ON THE... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American essays - 1834 - 310 pages
...reasonable, only tha cheap assistance of spectacles, which could not much impair our finances. But thfl eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself wera blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture ON THE SLAVE... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1836 - 584 pages
...Our eyes, though exceedingly useful, ask, when reasonable, only the cheap assistance of spectacles, which could not much impair our finances. But the...other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture. REMARKS CONCERNING... | |
 | Joshua Leavitt - Readers - 1836 - 164 pages
...victuals*. Our eyes, though exceedingly useful, ask only the cheap assistance of a pair of spectacles. But the eyes of other people, are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture. 4. There are... | |
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But the eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture. 
