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" I therefore filled all the little spaces that occurred between the remarkable days in the calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue ; it being more... "
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Including Poor Richard's Almanac ... - Page 121
by Benjamin Franklin - 2005 - 320 pages
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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...

Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1818 - 566 pages
...Calendar, with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue; it...formed into a connected discourse prefixed to the Almanack of 1757, as the harangue of a wise old man to the people attending an auction : the bringing...
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The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: [Autobiography

Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 558 pages
...Calendar, with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculeated industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue; it...those proverbs) " it is hard for an empty sack to ttand upright" These proverbs which contained the wisdom of many ages and nations, I assembled and...
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The Moral Instructor, and Guide to Virtue: Being a Compendium of Moral ...

Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...calendar, with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue; it...proverbs,) "it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright." 14 These proverbs which contained the wisdom of many ages and nations, I assembled and formed into...
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The Moral Instructor, and Guide to Virtue: Being a Compendium of Moral ...

Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 pages
...calendar, with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as> inculcated industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue; it...proverbs,) "it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright. " 14 These proverbs which contained the wisdom of many ages and nations, I assembled and formed into...
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Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 1

Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1834 - 682 pages
...Calendar, with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and rugality, as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue ; it...being more difficult for a man in want to act always lonestly, as (to use here one of those proverbs) " ii is hard for an empty sack to stand upright.'"...
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The Life of Benjamin Franklin

Orville Luther Holley - Inventors - 1848 - 522 pages
...calendar, with proverbial sentences ; chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue ; it..." It is hard for an empty sack to stand upright." When about to relinquish the publication of his almanac, he gathered these scattered maxims together,...
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The Life of Benjamin Franklin

Orville Luther Holley - Inventors - 1848 - 534 pages
...calendar, with proverbial sentences ; chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue ; it being more difficult for a 7nan in want to act always honestly, as, to use here one of those proverbs, " It is hard for an empty...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 34

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1849 - 652 pages
...hard for an empty Back to stand upright/ ' These proverbs,' continuée FRANKLIN, in his autobiography, 'which contained the wisdom of many ages and nations,...formed into a connected discourse, prefixed to the Almnnac of 1758, as the harangue of a wise old man to the people attending an auction. The bringing...
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The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 34

1849 - 970 pages
...securing virtue ; 'for/ said the author, 'it la more difficult for a man in want to act honestly, than it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright.' ' These proverbs. ' continues FRANKLIN, in his autobiography, 'which contained the wisdom of many age* and nations, I...
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Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments

Proverbs - 1856 - 378 pages
...Xvil lendar with proverb sentenees, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue; it...for a man in want to act always honestly, as, to use hero one of those proverbs, ' It is hard for an empty sack to stand upright.' " He afterwards gathered...
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