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" I therefore filled all the little spaces that occurr'd 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 Select Works of Benjamin Franklin: Including His Autobiography - Page 194
by Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 488 pages
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The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: [Autobiography

Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 558 pages
...the common people, who bought scarcely any other books. I therefore filled all the little spaces that occurred between the remarkable days in the Calendar, with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculeated industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue; it...
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The Moral Instructor, and Guide to Virtue: Being a Compendium of Moral ...

Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...amongthe common people, who bought scarcely any other books. I therefore 4Hed all the little spaces that occurred between the remarkable days in the calendar,...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
...the common people, who bought scarcely any other books. I therefore filled all the little spaces that occurred between the remarkable days in the calendar,...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
...the common people, who bought scarcely any other books. I therefore filled all the little spaces that occurred between the remarkable days in the Calendar,...sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and rugality, as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue ; it being more difficult for...
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The Life of Benjamin Franklin

Orville Luther Holley - Inventors - 1848 - 522 pages
...proverbial wisdom, with which its pages were richly stored. "I filled," says he, "all the little spaces that occurred between the remarkable days in the calendar,..." 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
...wisdom, with which its pages were richly stored. " I filled," says he, " all the little spaces that occurred between the remarkable days in the calendar,...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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Poor Richard's Almanac for 1850-52

Benjamin Franklin - Almanacs - 1849 - 78 pages
...books. All the little spaces that occurred between the remarkable days in the calendar, were filled with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated...means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue ; ' for,' said the author, ' it is more difficult for a man in want to act always honestly, than hard...
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The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Written by Himself ; to which is Added His ...

Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 pages
...common people, who bought scarcely any other books. I, therefore, filled all the little spaces, that occurred between the remarkable days in the calendar,...sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frufality, as the means of procuring wealth, and therey securing virtue ; it being more difficult for...
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Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments

Proverbs - 1856 - 378 pages
...between the remarkable days in the caTHE PHILOSOPHY OP PROVERBS. Xvil lendar with proverb sentenees, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality...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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The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Containing the Autobiography

Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1859 - 710 pages
...although he people, who bought scarcely any other books. I therefore filled all the little spaces, that occurred between the remarkable days in the Calendar,...with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry5 and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue ; it being more...
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