 And again, Pride is as loud a beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece ; but Poor Dick says, It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to...  Proverbial wisdom, with preface by B. Jerrold - Page 78edited by - 1874Full view - About this book
 | John Ray - English language - 1768 - 586 pages
...fellow. He capers like a fly in a tar-box, He's in good carding. I would cheat my own father at cards. When you have counted your cards you'll find you have gained but little. Catch that catch may. The cat hath eaten her count. It is fpoken of women with child, that go beyond... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American prose literature - 1779 - 610 pages
...a beggar as Want, *' and a great deal more faucy." When you have ' bought one fine thing, you muft buy ten more, ' that your appearance may be all of a piece ; but ' Poor Dick fays, " It is eafier to fupprefs the firft «' defire, than to fatisfy all that follow... | |
 | James Anderson - Scotland - 1791 - 422 pages
...loud a beggar as Want, and a great deal more faucy." When you have bought one fine thing, you muft buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece ; but poor Dick faysj " It is eafier to fupprefs the firft defire, than to fatisfy all that follow... | |
 | Fashionable caricature - 1792 - 72 pages
...take heed whom you take by the hand. Sir H—y G - d. Wide and weather I defy thee. ' Mrs. Ef—n. When you have counted your cards you'll find you have gained but little. Sir Rd KS. ^ * War muft be waged by waking men. L— iT— /— w. What the heart thinketh the tongue... | |
 | Chapbooks - 1796 - 34 pages
...consult your purse." And again, " Pride is as loud a beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy." When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a-piece ; but Poor Dick says, '* It is is easier to suppress the first desire, than to^tisfy all that... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1802 - 348 pages
...loud a beggar as Want, and a great deal more faucy." When you have bought one fine thing, you muft buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece ; but Poor Dick fays, " It is eafier to fupprefs the firft defire, than to fatisfy all that follow... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1820 - 72 pages
...consult your purse.' " And again, ' Pride is as loud a beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy.' When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more that your appearance may be all of a piece ; but poor Dick says, ' It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American literature - 1804 - 78 pages
...again, "Pride is as loud a beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy." When you have bought one fjne thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but poor Dick says> TO rooR RICHARD'S ALMANACK. "It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to... | |
 | Gleaner - 1805 - 426 pages
...consult your purse." And again, " Pride is as loud a beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy." When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece : but poor Dick says, " It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow... | |
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