 | Hwiding - 1817 - 412 pages
...saw any one too amhitious of court favour, sacrificing his time in attendance on levees, his repose, his liberty, his virtue, and perhaps his friends/ to attain it, I have said to myself, This man gives too much forh is whittle/ ' .'•"•'i$, ' When 1 saw another fond... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 610 pages
...When I saw one too ambitious of court favor, sacrificing his time in attendance on levees, his repose, his liberty, his virtue, and perhaps his friends, to attain it, I have said to myself, This man gives too much for his whistle. When I saw another fond of popularity, constantly... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American essays - 1820 - 360 pages
...any one too ambitious of court favours, sacrificing his time in attendance on levees, his re|>ose, his liberty, his virtue, and perhaps his friends, to attain it, I have said to myself, " This man gives too much for his whistle." When I saw another fond of popularity,... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 356 pages
...saw any one too ambitious of court favours, sacrificing his time in attendance on levees, his repose, his liberty, his virtue, and perhaps his friends, to attain it, I have said to myself, " This man gives too much for his whistle." When I saw another fond of popularity,... | |
 | Mason Locke Weems - Statesmen - 1822 - 272 pages
...saw any one too ambitious of court favours, sacri&cing his time in attendance on levees, his repose, his liberty, his virtue, and perhaps his friends, to attain it: I have said to myself, this man gives too much for his whistle. When I saw another fond of popularity, constantly... | |
 | English wit & humor - 1825 - 204 pages
...I saw one too ambitious of court favour, sacrificing his time in attendance at levees, his repose, his liberty, his virtue, and perhaps his friends, to attain it, I have said to myself, this man gives too much for his whistle — When I saw another fond of popularity,... | |
 | United States - 1826 - 422 pages
...saw any one too ambitious of court favours, sacrificing his time in attendance on levees, his repose, his liberty, his virtue, and perhaps his friends, to attain it, I have said to myself, This man gives too much for his whistle. When I saw another fond of popularity, constantly... | |
 | United States - 1826 - 440 pages
...any one too ambitious of court favours, sacrificing his time in attendance on levees,. his repose, his liberty, his virtue, and perhaps his friends, to attain it, I have said to myself, This man gives too much for his whistle. When I saw another fond of popularity, constantly... | |
 | Jesse Torrey (the younger.) - Readers, American - 1830 - 162 pages
...I saw one too ambitious of court favours, sacrificing his time in attendance at levees, his repose, his liberty, his virtue, and perhaps his friends, to attain it, I have said to myself, This man gives too much for his Whistle. 7. When I saw another fond of popularity,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1831 - 180 pages
...any one too ambitious of court-favour, sac ri-fi-5ing his time in attendance on lev'ees, his repose, his liberty, his vir'tue, and perhaps' his friends, to attain it, I said to my-self ', This man gives too much for his whistle. 6. When I saw another fond of pop ularity,... | |
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I saved my money. As I grew up, came into the world, and observed the actions of men, I thought I met with many, very many, who gave too much for the whistle. 
