 | John Comly - Readers - 1849 - 234 pages
...one too ambitious of court favour, so as to sacrifice 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 - Inventors - 1853 - 522 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... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1855 - 718 pages
...When I saw one too ambitions of court favor, sacrificing his time in attendance on levees, hie repose, his liberty, his virtue, and perhaps his friends, to attain it, I have said to myself, Thil man gives too »лис/i for his whittle. When I saw another fond of popularity,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 pages
...saw any one too ambitious of court favors, 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, 7%ts man gives too much for his whistle. When I saw another fond of popularity, constantly... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1859 - 812 pages
...any one too ambitious of court favor, — 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, thi* man gives too much for his whistle. When I saw another fond of popularity, constantly... | |
 | William M. Thayer - Apprentices - 1861 - 304 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 Ms whistle. " When I saw another fond of popularity, constantly... | |
 | William Makepeace Thayer - 1860 - 342 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 pages
...any one too ambitious of court favor, — 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, constantly... | |
 | James Stuart Laurie - 1863 - 328 pages
...saw any one too ambitious of court favors, 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1864 - 260 pages
...any one too ambitious of court favors, sacrifificing his time in attendance on levees, his repose, his liberty, his virtue, and perhaps his friends, to attain it, I have said to myself, Tlds man gives too much for his whistle, When I saw another found of popularity, constantly... | |
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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. 
