 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - Readers - 1878 - 508 pages
...a superstitious sect, great observers of days and times.' If you bear your debt in mind, the term, which at first seemed so long, will, as it lessens, appear extremely short. ' Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.' 19. " This doctrine, my friends, is... | |
 | Phebe Lankester - 1880 - 270 pages
...the demand is made before you are prepared to satisfy it. Or if you bear your debt in mind, the term which at first seemed so long> will, as it lessens,...will seem to have added wings to his heels as well as to his shoulders. ' Those have a short * Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.' 'The borrower is... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 626 pages
...demand is made before you are prepared to satisfy it ; or, if you bear your debt in mind, the term, which at first seemed so long, will, as it lessens,...Those have a short Lent, who owe money to be paid \Easter. At present, perhaps, you may think yourives in thriving circumstances, and that you can bear... | |
 | sir Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave - 1882 - 250 pages
...the demand is made before you are prepared to satisfy it. Or if you bear your debt in mind, the term which at first seemed so long will, as it lessens,...will seem to have added wings to his heels as well as to his shoulders. " Those will have a short Lent (saith poor Richard) who owe money to be paid at Easter."... | |
 | Chautauquas - 1882 - 630 pages
...demand is made before you are prepared to satisfy it; or, if you bear your debt in mind, the term, which at first seemed so long, will, as it lessens, appear extremely short : Time will seem to have idded wings to his heels as well as his shoulders. 'Those have a short Lent, who owe money to be paid... | |
 | John Nichol - American literature - 1882 - 496 pages
..."Creditors have good memories ; they are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times." " Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter." These and many more quotations father Abraham pours forth in a brief discourse, at the close of which,... | |
 | John Nichol - American literature - 1882 - 528 pages
...Creditors have good memories ; they are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times." " Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter." These and many more quotations father Abraham pours forth in a brief discourse, at the close of which,... | |
 | James Hamblin Smith - English language - 1882 - 238 pages
...persuade me what I am. — As, 2, 1, 10. What means that hand upon that breast of thine ? John, 3, i, 21. Those have a short Lent, who owe money to be paid at Easter. — Franklin. The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye As is the perfumed tincture of the roses, Hang... | |
 | 1907 - 668 pages
...to satisfy it; or, if you bear your debt in mind, the term, which at first seemed so long. 540 541 will, as it lessens, appear extremely short. Time...can bear a little extravagance without injury, but — For age and want save while you may; No morning sun lasts a whole day. " Gain may be temporary... | |
 | American wit and humor - 1907 - 374 pages
...the demand is made before you are prepared to satisfy it; or, if you bear your debt in mind, the term which at first seemed so long, will, as it lessens,...as well as his shoulders. Those have a short Lent, saith Poor Richard, who owe money to be paid at Easter. Then since, as he says, The borrower is a slave... | |
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The day comes round before you are aware, and the demand is made before you are prepared to satisfy it; or, if you bear your debt in mind, the term, which at first seemed so long, will, as it lessens, appear extremely short. Time will seem to have added... 
