 | American wit and humor - 1907 - 374 pages
...When I saw one too ambitious to 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 - 1908 - 430 pages
...I saw one too ambitious 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 for his whistle. When I saw another fond of popularity, constantly... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1909 - 280 pages
...When I saw one too ambitious to 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... | |
 | William B. Cairns - American literature - 1909 - 520 pages
...I saw one too ambitious 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 for his whistle. When I saw another fond of popularity, constantly... | |
 | Franklin Thomas Baker - 1909 - 504 pages
...much for the whistle. When I saw one too ambitious of court favor, sacrificing his time, 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,... | |
 | Franklin Thomas Baker - Readers - 1910 - 504 pages
...much for the whistle. When I saw one too ambitious of court favor, sacrificing his time, 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,... | |
 | Margaret Ashmun - American literature - 1910 - 314 pages
...I saw one too ambitious 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 for his whistle. If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - Basal reading instruction - 1911 - 376 pages
...I saw one too ambitious of court favor, sacrificing his 5 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... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - English literature - 1912 - 788 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... | |
 | Readers - 1912 - 332 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. THE WAY TO WEALTH 257 If I knew a miser, who... | |
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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. 
