 | 1822 - 588 pages
...knuckles. The Same. Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal • 1 Cor. 4, &c. more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece ; but it is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it. And it is as truly folly... | |
 | H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 pages
...Want, and a great deal more saucy. " When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, lhat your appearance may be all of a piece; but Poor Dick says, „It is easier to suppress the lint desire, than to satisfy all that follow it." And it is as truly folly for the poor to ape the... | |
 | 1828 - 594 pages
...observe, that ' ' A ploughman on his legs, is higher than a gentleman on his knees." " It is as absurd for the poor to ape the rich, as for the frog to swell with desire to equal the ox." After all, what use is all this pride of appearance, for which so much... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1825 - 324 pages
...beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy.' When you have bought one fine thing, you must buyten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece ;...is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as the frog to swell, in order to equal the ox. ' Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should... | |
 | John Bull - English wit and humor - 1825 - 782 pages
...beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buVpten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece ; but poor Ihck says, It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it : and it is... | |
 | United States - 1826 - 422 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,...is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as the frog to swell in order to equal the ox. ' Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should... | |
 | United States - 1826 - 440 pages
...as loud a beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy.' When you have bought one fine thing-, ,jou must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all...is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as the frog to swell in order to equal the ox. ' Vessels large may v«nture more, But little boats should... | |
 | Literature - 1826 - 450 pages
...loud a brggar as Want, and a great deal more Iaucy." When you have bought one Jine thing, you muft buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a ' piece; bat Poor Dick fays, " It is cafter to fupprefs the firft defire, than to fatiify all that follow it... | |
 | Ethics - 1828 - 234 pages
...sav'd, amount to pounds iu haste." " Beware of little expences, a small leak will sink a great ship." It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. " Vessels' large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore." " Pride, that dines on... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 358 pages
...passions create.—Burton. DCLIX. 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 it is easier to suppress the fint desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.—Franklin. DCLX. It... | |
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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, 'Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy... 
