 Poor Richard tells us, have better memories than debtors; and in another place says, creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times. The day comes round before you are aware, and the demand is made before you are prepared to...  The Scots Magazine - Page 251777Full view - About this book
 | 1768 - 332 pages
...rit and virtue. 'Tis hard for an empty bag to Hand upright, Some when they have got their bargain, think little of payment; but creditors, poor Richard...tells us, have better memories than debtors ; and likewife creditors are a fuperftitious feel — great obfervers of fet days and times — and that... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American prose literature - 1779 - 610 pages
...! Your creditor has authority, at his pleafure, to deprive you of your liberty, by confining you in gaol for life, or by felling you for a fervant, if...bargain, you may, perhaps, think little of payment ; but, as Poor Richard fays, " Creditors have better memories than F " debtors ; " debtors; creditors are... | |
 | several hands - 1780 - 612 pages
...ferioufnefs and jocularity : but we muft give a part of what this dry joker fays on the fubj?c} of running in When you have got your bargain, you ma.y, perhaps, think little of payment ; but, as Poor Richard fays, U Creditors have better memories than debtors ; creditors are a fuperftitious... | |
 | James Anderson - Scotland - 1791 - 422 pages
...of your liberty, by confining yott in goal for life, or by felling you for a fervant, if you flrould not be able to pay him. "When you have got your bargain, you may, perhaps,- think Kttle of payment : but " creditors (poor Richard tells us), have better memories than debtors ;•"... | |
 | Chapbooks - 1796 - 34 pages
...of your liberty, by confining you in gaol for life, or by selling you for a servant, if you should not be able to pay him. When you have got your bargain,...you may, perhaps, -think little of payment ; but, as Poor Richard says, " Creditors have better memories than debtors; creditors are a superstitious... | |
 | 1797 - 522 pages
...of your liberty, by confining you in gaol for life, or by felling you fora fervant, if you ftiould not be able to pay him. When you have got your bargain, you may, perhaps, think little of payment; but, asPoor Richard fays," Creditors have better memories than debtors ; creditors are a fuperftitious feft,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1797 - 516 pages
...of your liberty, by confining you in gaol for life, or by felling you fora fervant, if you íhould not be able to pay him. When you have got your bargain, you may, perhaps, think little of payment; but, as Poor Richard fays," Creditors have better memories than debtors ; creditors are a fuperft-itious... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1802 - 348 pages
...conlining you in gaol for life, or by felling you for a fervant, if you fhould not be able to pay hirfi : when you have got your bargain, you may perhaps think little of payment ; but *as Poor Richard fays, " Creditors have better memories than debtors, creditors are a fuperftitious... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1820 - 72 pages
...of your liberty, by confining you in a jail for life, or by selling you for a servant, if you should not be able to pay him. When you have got your bargain...perhaps, think little of payment: but 'Creditors/ as poor Dick tells us, 'have better memories than debtors,' and, in another place he says, ' Creditors... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American literature - 1804 - 78 pages
...of your liberty, by confining you in jail for life, or by selling you for a servant, if you should not be able to pay him. When you have got your bargain,...tells us) have better memories than debtors, ;" and in anotherplace he says, "Creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times."... | |
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