 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 542 pages
...rest of the body clothing, and the belly a good deal of victuals. Our eyes, though exceedingly useful, ask when reasonable only the cheap assistance of spectacles,...should want neither fine clothes, fine houses, nor line furniture. Adieu, my dear friend. I am yours ever, B. FRANKLIN. PS This will be delivered to you... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - Conduct of life - 1818 - 432 pages
...hundreds from a condition of competence to that of poverty. That apt Remarker, Dr. Franklin, observes, " The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us....neither fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture." — It is even so : and it is this supreme regard to the eyes of others, that leads multitudes into... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American essays - 1820 - 360 pages
...of the body clothing ; and the belly a good deal of victuals. Our eyes, though exceedingly useful, ask, when reasonable, only the cheap assistance of...not much impair our finances. But the eyes of other peopJe are the eyes that ruin us< If all but myself were blind, I should want ueithcr fine clothes,... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 356 pages
...rest of the body clothing; and the belly a good deal of victuals. Our eyes, though exceedingly useful, ask, when reasonable, only the cheap assistance of...fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture. ON SMUGGLING, AND ITS VARIOUS SPECIES. To the Editor of the London Chronicle. 'SIR, Nov. u, 176TTHERE... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - Conduct of life - 1823 - 286 pages
...thousands from a condition of competence to that of poverty. That apt Remarker, Dr. Franklin, observes, u The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us....neither fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture." — It is even so : and it is this supreme regard to the eyes of others, that leads multitudes into... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...stomach a good deal of victuals. Our eyes, though exceedingly useful, ask, when reasonable, only tlie cheap assistance of spectacles, which could not much...neither fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture. SECTION IV. Extracts of a letter from DB. FRANKLIN, to the Rev. GEORGE WHITEFIELD.* Sir, Philadelphia,... | |
 | New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Tract Association - 1824 - 430 pages
...hundred; from a condition of competence to that of poverty. That apt Remarker, Dr. Franklin, observes, *' The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us....neither fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture." — It is even so ; and it is this supreme regard to the eyes of others, that leads multitudes into... | |
 | United States - 1826 - 440 pages
...exceedingly useful, ask, when reasonable, only the cheap assistance of spectacles, which .woul^ not inuch impair our finances. But the eyes of other people...myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, houses, nor fine furniture. No. 3. ' .' ' OBSERVATIONS ON WAR. BY the original laws of nations, war... | |
 | United States - 1826 - 422 pages
...assistance of spectacles, which would not much impair our finances. But the eyes of other peopleare the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, houses, nor fine furniture. No. 3. . ' . • ' OBSERVATIONS ON WAR. By the original laws of nations,... | |
 | Willard Phillips - Business & Economics - 1828 - 286 pages
...exceedingly useful, ask, when reasonable, only the cheap assistance of a pair of spectacles, which cannot much impair our finances. But the eyes of other people...neither fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture." Vanity, fashion, whim and caprice are great patrons of the arts; they inspire the desire of possessing... | |
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Almost all the parts of our bodies- require some expense. The feet demand shoes ; the legs stockings ; the rest of the body clothing ; and the belly a good deal of victuals. Our eyes, though exceedingly useful, ask, when reasonable, only the cheap assistance... 
