 The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of living in a little time much beneath them ; or, as the Italian proverb runs, The Man who lives by Hope will die by Hunger.  The Spectator - Page 871726 - 312 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1853 - 442 pages
...heaven or hell hereafter. LIVING, MODE OF. — The man, who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of living in a little time much beneath them, or, as the Italian proverb says, " The man who lives by hope will die by despair." — Addison. LONGEVITY. — Longevity ought... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 624 pages
...ostentation, and generally ends in beggary and ruin. The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of living in a little time much...runs, The Man who lives by Hope will die by Hunger. It should be an indispensable rule in life, to contract our desires to our present condition ; and whatever... | |
 | 1854 - 630 pages
...ostentation, and generally ends in beggary and ruin. The man, who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of living in a little time much...The man who lives by hope, will die by hunger." It should be an indispensable rule in life, to contract our desires to our present condition; and, whatever... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 626 pages
...ostentation, and generally ends in beggary and ruin, ^he man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of living in a little time much...runs, The Man who lives by Hope will die by Hunger. It should be an indispensable rule in life, to contract our desires to our present condition ; and whatever... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 620 pages
...ostentation, and generally ends in beggary and ruin. The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of living in a little time much...runs, The Man who lives by Hope will die by Hunger. It should be an indispensable rule in life, to contract our desires to our present condition ; and whatever... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 628 pages
...ostentation, and generally ends in_beggary and ruin. The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of living in a little time much...runs, The Man who lives by Hope will die by Hunger. It should be an indispensable rule in life, to contract our desires to our present condition ; and whatever... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 622 pages
...ostentation, and generally ends in beggary and ruin. The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of living in a little time much...runs, The Man who lives by Hope will die by Hunger. It should be an indispensable rule in life, to contract our desires to our present condition ; and whatever... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 pages
...merit all objections fly. Churchill. DCXXXIL The man, who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of living in a little time much beneath them, or, as the Italian proverb says, " The man whs lives by hope will die by danger." — Adduon, Dcxxxni. As Rochefoucault his maxims... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 570 pages
...the minstrel and the page of the chronicler. 'THE man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of living in a little time much beneath them. Utbfng toelL — Fuller. TTE lives long that lives well ; and Time misspent, is not lived, but lost.... | |
 | Spectator The - 1857 - 780 pages
...ostentation, and generally ends in beggary and ruin. The man who will live above bis present circumstances is in great danger of living in a little time much beneath them ; or, as the Italian proverb runs, hunger." It should be an indispensable rule in life, to contract our desires to our present condition,... | |
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