 | Benjamin Franklin - American prose literature - 1779 - 610 pages
...bed fupperlefs, than rife in debt." " Get what you can, and what you get hold : " 'Tis the ftohe that will turn all your lead " into gold." ' And when you...of bad times, ' or the difficulty of paying taxes. 1 IV. This doctrine, my friends, is reafon and ' wifdom : But, after all, do not depend too ' much... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1780 - 614 pages
...as Poor Richard fays ; fo, " Rather go to bed fupperlefsj than rife in debt." " 'Tis the ftone that will turn all your lead into gold." And when you have...harangue. — ' The people heard it, and approved the do&rine ; and immediately pradtifed the contrary, juft as if it had been a common fermon ; for the... | |
 | James Anderson - Scotland - 1791 - 422 pages
...get hold ; 'Tis the ftone that will turn al\ your lead into gold," its poor Richard fays. And *hen you have got the philofopher's ftone, fure you will...complain of bad times, or the difficulty of paying taxes. This doftrine, my friends, is reaibn and wifdom : But, after all, do not depend too much upon your... | |
 | Chapbooks - 1796 - 34 pages
...all your lead into ycld." " THE WAV TO WEALTH. And when you have got the philosopher's s|one, sure you will no longer complain of bad times', or the difficulty of paying taxes. IV. ' This doctrine, my friends, is reason and wisdom : but, after all, do not depend too much upon... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1797 - 516 pages
..."Tis tht ftone that will tujnall your lead into gold." And when you have got the philofopher's Hone, fure you will no longer complain of bad times, or the difficulty of paying taxes. IV. ' This doflrine, my friends, is reafon and wifdom : but, after all, do not depend too much upon... | |
 | 1797 - 522 pages
...the ftjn: thitwiil turn all your kjd into gold." And when you have got the philofopher's (tone, lure you will no longer complain of bad times, or the difficulty of paying taxes. JV. ' This doflrine, my friends, is rcafon and wifdom : but, after all, do not depend too much upon... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1802 - 348 pages
...to bed fupperlefs, than rife in debt. " Get what yon can, and what you get hold, Tis the ftone that will turn all your lead into gold." AND when you have...complain of bad times, or the difficulty of paying taxes. IV. " THIS do&rine, my friends, is reafon and wifdom : but, after all, do not depend too much upon... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1820 - 72 pages
...your lead into gold.' As poor Richard says. — And when you have got the philosopher's stone, surely you will no longer complain of bad times, or the difficulty of paying taxes. " This doctrine, my friends, is reason and wisdom ; but, after all, do not depend too much upon your... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1806 - 586 pages
...stone that will turn all your lead into gold." And when you have got the philosopher's stone, sure you will no longer complain of bad times, or the difficulty of paying taxes. ' IV. This doctrine, my friends, is reason and wisdom : but, after all, do not depend too much upon... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American literature - 1806 - 590 pages
...stone that will turn all your lead into gold." And when you have got the philosopher's stone, sure you will no longer complain of bad times, or the difficulty of paying taxes. ' IV. This doctrine, my friends, is reason and wisdom : but, after all, do not depend too much upon... | |
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This doctrine, my friends, is reason and wisdom; but, after all do not depend too much upon your own industry and frugality and prudence, though excellent things; for they may all be... 
