| Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - United States - 1856 - 590 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...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 men... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American prose literature - 1856 - 592 pages
...being overtaken and slain by the enemy ; all for leant of a little care about a horseshoe nail. "Ш. So much for industry, my friends, and attention to...the grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last. Л fat kitchen makes a lean will ; and Many estates arc spent in the getting, Since irvtnen for tea... | |
| Robert Kemp Philp - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1856 - 372 pages
...frugality we cannot do better than take the worthy Mentor for our text, and from it address our remarks. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets,...keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and dienot worth a groat at last. A fat kitchen, makes a lean will," and " Many estates are spent in getting,... | |
| Half hours - 1856 - 456 pages
...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 one's own business ; but to these wo must add frugality, if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows... | |
| Half hours - 1856 - 650 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 one's own business ; but to those we must add frugality, if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if... | |
| James William Gilbart - Language and languages - 1857 - 416 pages
...lost,' being overtaken and slain by the enemy ; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail. " 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,... | |
| James William Gilbart - Language and languages - 1857 - 416 pages
...lost,' being overtaken and slain by the enemy ; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail. " 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,... | |
| James William Gilbart - Logic - 1857 - 414 pages
...overtaken and slain by the enemy ; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoo nail. " So rnueh for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own...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,... | |
| William Chambers - Conduct of life - 1858 - 378 pages
...lost;' being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for want of a little care about a horseshoe nail. " So much for industry, my friends, and attention to...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... | |
| Ferdinand E. A. Gasc - French language - 1858 - 362 pages
...overtaken and slain by the enemy ; all5 for want of care about a horse-shoe nail.4 " So much for 5 industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business...successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as0 he gets, ' keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last.'7 'A... | |
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