 | John Clark Ridpath - Anthologies - 1899 - 526 pages
...you give too much for your whistle, If I see one fond of appearance, or fine clothes, fine houses, fine furniture, fine equipages, all above his fortune,...for which he contracts debts, and ends his career in a prison, Alas ! say I, he has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle. When I see a beautiful, sweet-tempered... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 430 pages
...you give too much for your whistle. If I see one fond of appearance, or fine clothes, fine houses, fine furniture, fine equipages, all above his fortune,...for which he contracts debts, and ends his career in a prison, Alas ! say I, he has paid dear, very dear for his whistle. When I see a beautiful, sweet-tempered... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1899 - 204 pages
...you give too much for your whistle. If I see one fond of appearance, or fine clothes, fine houses, fine furniture, fine equipages, all above his fortune, for which he contracts debts and ends his days in prison, Alas ! say I, he has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle. When I see a beautiful,... | |
 | Literature - 1900 - 424 pages
...you give too much for your whistle. If I see one fond of appearance, or fine clothes, fine houses, fine furniture, fine equipages, all above his fortune,...for which he contracts debts, and ends his career in a prison, Alas ! say I, he has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle. POOR RICHARD'S SAYINGS. BENJAMIN... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Almanacs, American - 1900 - 190 pages
...; you give too much for your whistle. If I see one fond of appearance or fine clothes, fine houses, fine furniture, fine equipages, all above his fortune,...for which he contracts debts and ends his career in a prison, alas ! say I, he has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle. When I see a beautiful, sweet-tempered... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1901 - 296 pages
...; you give too much for your whistle. If I see one fond of appearance or fine clothes, fine houses, •fine furniture, fine equipages, all above his fortune,...for which he contracts debts and ends his career in a prison, alas ! say I, he has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle. When I see a beautiful, sweet-tempered... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck, Frank R. Stockton, Nathan Haskell Dole, Julian Hawthorne - Anthologies - 1901 - 432 pages
...; you give too much for your whistle. If I see one fond of appearance or fine clothes, fine houses, fine furniture, fine equipages, all above his fortune,...for which he contracts debts and ends his career in a prison, alas ! say I, he has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle. When I see a beautiful, sweet-tempered... | |
 | Biography - 1901 - 502 pages
...you give too much for your whistle. If I see one fond of appearance, or fine clothes, fine houses, fine furniture, fine equipages, all above his fortune,...for which he contracts debts, and ends his career in a prison, Alas ! say I, he has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle. When I see a beautiful, sweet-tempered... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - Literature - 1901 - 444 pages
...pleasure; you give too much for your whistle. If I see one fond of appearance or fine clothes, fine houses, fine furniture, fine equipages, all above his fortune,...for which he contracts debts and ends his career in a prison, alas I say I, he has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle. When I see a beautiful, sweet-tempered... | |
 | Sherman Williams - Readers - 1902 - 504 pages
...you give too much for your whistle. If I see one fond of appearance, or fine clothes, fine houses, fine furniture, fine equipages, all above his fortune,...for which he contracts debts, and ends his career in a prison, alas ! say I, he has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle. In short, I conceive that a great... | |
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I, you are providing pain for yourself, instead of pleasure; you give too much for your whistle. 
