 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...being overtaken and slain by the enemy; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail. " III. So much for industry, my friends, and attention to...worth a groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will ; ' and, ' Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women for tea forsook spinning and knitting,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesman - 1848 - 312 pages
...care about a horse-shoe nail. " So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own busmess ; but to these we must add frugality, if we would make...groat at last.' ' A fat kitchen makes a lean will,' as poor Richard says ; and, ' Many estates are spent in the getting ; Stuce women for tea forsook spinning... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Ells - American literature - 1778 - 392 pages
...being overtaken and slain by the enemy; all for want of a little- care abont a horse shoe nail. III. "So much for industry, my friends, and attention to..."keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die uot worth a groat at last — a fat kitchen makes a lean will;" and "Many estates are spent in the... | |
 | Orville Luther Holley - Inventors - 1848 - 522 pages
...being overtaken and slain by the enemy ; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail. " III. So much for industry, my friends, and attention to...keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and FRUGALITY. 213 die not worth a groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will; and — Many estates... | |
 | Advice - 1848 - 72 pages
...casualties to which human nature, in every situation of life, is liable. As an American writer says, "A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life at the grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last." If you would be wealthy, says the same writer,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1853 - 522 pages
...being overtaken and slain by the enemy; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail. " 3. So much for industry, my friends, and attention to...a groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will;' and ' Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women for tea forsook spinning and knitting, And... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 308 pages
...was lost ;' being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for want of care about a horse-shoe nail. " So much for industry, my friends, and attention to...industry more certainly successful. A man may, if be knows not how to save as he gets, ' keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth... | |
 | 1853 - 446 pages
...being overtaken and slain by the enemy: all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail. "III. So much for industry, my friends, and attention to...would make our industry more certainly successful. ' Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women for tea forsook spinning and knitting, And men... | |
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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,... 
