| 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 it :" And '... | |
| 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 it." And it is as... | |
| Chapbooks - 1796 - 34 pages
...of dress is sure a very curse, Ere fancy you consult, consult your purse." And again, " Pride is as loud a beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy."...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 it :" And it is... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1820 - 72 pages
...is sure a very curse ; > Ere fancy you consult — consult your purse.' " And again, ' Pride is as loud a beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy.'...first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it. And that it is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as the frog to swell in order to equal the... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - American literature - 1804 - 78 pages
...of dress is sure a very curse; ere fancy you consult, consult your purse." And 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>... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1806 - 586 pages
...of dress is sure a very curse, Ere fancy you consult, consult your purse." And again, " pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy."...suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow jt:" and it is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as for the frog to swell, in order to equal... | |
| 1812 - 314 pages
...of dress is sure a very curse; ere fancy you consult, consult your purse." And again, "Pride is as loud a beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy."...bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that yourappearance may be all of a piece; but poor Dick says, *' It is easier to suppress the first desire,... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...of dross is sure a very curse, Ere fancy you ronsull, consult your purse." And again, " Pride is as loud a beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy." When you have got one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a-piece ; but Poor Dick... | |
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