 | Benjamin Franklin - Political science - 1840 - 342 pages
...;' being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for want of a little cure ahout a horse-shoe nail. ' So much for industry, my friends, and attention to...groat at last.' ' A fat kitchen makes a lean will,' as poor Richard says : ' Many estates are spent in the getting ; Since women for tea forsook spinning... | |
 | Edward Stanley Bosanquet - 1840 - 436 pages
...being overtaken and slain by the enemy ; and all for want of a little care about a horse- shoe nail. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, " keep his nose all his life to the grind-stoae and die not worth a groat at the last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will." What maintains... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1841 - 300 pages
...III. ' So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business : but to these we roust add frugality, if we would make our industry more...a groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will." MI " Many oitatei are spent in petting, Sioee women for tea forsook spinning and kaitiinir , And m*n... | |
 | Elizabeth Frank - 1842 - 304 pages
...To industry, and attention to our own business, we must add frugality, if we would make our industry successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save...a groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will." " Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women, for tea, forsook spinning and knitting, And men,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1844 - 600 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...the grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last. Jl fat kitchen makes a lean will ; and Many estates are spent in the gitting, Since teamen for tea... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 320 pages
...ahout a horse-shoe nail. "So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own husiness; hut to these we must add frugality, if we would make our...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 spinning... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 250 pages
...ahout a horse-shoe nail." So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own husiness ; hut to these we must add frugality, if we would make our...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 spinning... | |
 | 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... | |
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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,... 
