 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, It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to...  Select Pieces - Page 9by Benjamin Franklin - 1804 - 59 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 430 pages
...choice of a good or ill wife. When I did well, I heard it never ; When I did ill, I heard it ever. Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore. Fond pride of dress is sure a very curse, Ere fancy you consult, consult your purse. For age and want... | |
 | Theology - 1850 - 778 pages
...cannot fathom. It would have been well if he had followed the prudent advice of Poor Richard, • " Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore."' The work is wanting in almost every element of interest. In a literary aspect, it has no claim upon... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1851 - 318 pages
...desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.' And it is as truly folly for the poor to ape. the rich, as the frog to swell, in order to equal the ox. 'Vessels...may venture more. But little boats should keep near shore.1 'Tis, however, a folly soon punished; for 'Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt,' as... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1853 - 522 pages
...be all of a piece ; but poor Dick says, ' it is easier to' suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it;' and it is as truly folly for...venture more, But little boats should keep near shore.' It 18, however, a folly soon punished ; for, as poor Richard says, ' pride that dines on vanity sups... | |
 | C. Gough - 1853 - 428 pages
...friend than their joke. Those nimble fancies are but the froth of wit. — Lord Chancellor Burleigh. IT is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich,...as for the frog to swell, in order to equal the ox. A TYRANT'S HAPPINESS. DEMOCLES, the Sicilian, learnt that the life of a tyrant is not as happy as it... | |
 | William Chambers - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1853 - 858 pages
...be all of a piece ; but poor Dick says, ' It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it" And it is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as the frog to swell in order to equal the ox. ' Vi-ssrls Inrg"' mny vfimm- mon1. Hut little boats should... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - American literature - 1854 - 580 pages
...desire than to satisfy all that follow it; and it is äs truly folly for the poor to ape the rieh, äs for the frog to swell, in order to equal the ox."...venture more, But little boats should keep near shore." It is however, a folly soon punished; for, äs poor Richard says, „pride that dines on vanity, sups... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1855 - 522 pages
...be all of a piece ; but poor Dick says, ' it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it ;' and it is as truly folly for...as for the frog to swell in order to equal the ox. 1 Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore.' It is, however, a folly... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 pages
...be all of a piece ; but poor Dick says, ' It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.' And, it 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... | |
 | Carl August Friedrich Mahn - Greek language - 1855 - 310 pages
...unterbrucfen, than to satisfy all that follow it ala aííe bie jit befttebigeti, bie auf if)n folgen. And it is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich itnb ее ¡ft eben fo »afjtljaft ïfyotljett fût bie Sltmen ben ffleidjen nadjjuajfen, as for the... | |
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