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" I saw one too ambitious of court favor, sacrificing his time in attendance on levees, his repose, his liberty, his virtue, and perhaps his friends, to attain it, I have said to myself, This man gives too much for his whistle. "
The Printer Boy: Or, How Ben Franklin Made His Mark. An Example for Youth - Page 6
by William M. Thayer - 1861 - 261 lehte
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Works of the Late Doctor Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of His Life, Written ...

Benjamin Franklin - 1793 - 324 lehte
...whiftle. When I faw another fond of popularity, conftantly employing himfelf in political buftles, neglecting his own affairs, and ruining them by that neglect : He pays, indeed fays I, too much for his whiftle. If I knew a mifer, who gave up every kind of comfortable living,...
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Works of the Late Doctor Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of His Life Written ...

Benjamin Franklin - 1793 - 282 lehte
...another fond of popularity, conftantly employing himfclf in political • litical buftles, neglefting his own affairs, and ruining them by that neglect: He •pays, indeed, fays I, too much for bis wbiftle. If I knew a mifer, who gave up every kind of comfortable living,...
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Poor Richard; or, The way to wealth

Benjamin Franklin - 1820 - 72 lehte
...his virtue, and perhaps his friends, to attain, it, I said to myself, this man gives too much for his whistle. When I saw another fond of popularity, constantly...ruining them by that neglect ; he pays indeed, said 1, too much for his whistle. If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the...
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Select Pieces

Benjamin Franklin - 1804 - 78 lehte
...perhaps his friends, to attain it, I say to myself, This man gives too much for his whistle. When I see another fond of popularity, constantly employing himself...own affairs, and ruining them by that neglect: He fays, indeed, say I, too much for his whistle. If I know a miser, who gives up every kind of comfortable...
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An American Selection of Lessons in Reading and Speaking: Calculated to ...

Noah Webster - 1804 - 254 lehte
...perhaps his friends to attain it, I have said to myself, 'Thin man gives too muchjltr liis whistle. " '7. "When I saw another fond of popularity, constantly...employing, himself in political bustles, neglecting his awn affairs, and ruining them by that neglect, he pays indeed, said I, te« much fcr his -uhistle....
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Beauties of British Prose

Sydney Melmoth - 1805 - 368 lehte
...virtue, and perhaps his friends, to attain it, I have said to myself, This man gives too much for his whistle. When I saw another fond of popularity, constantly...and ruining them by that neglect ; He pays, indeed, says \, too much for his whistle. If I knew a,miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living,...
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The Complete Works in Philosophy, Politics, and Morals, of the ..., 3. köide

Benjamin Franklin - 1806 - 590 lehte
...virtue, and perhaps his friends, to attain it, I have said to myself, This man gives too much for hip whistle. When I saw another fond of popularity, constantly...employing himself in political bustles, neglecting hij own affairs, and ruining them by that neglect, He pays, indeed, says I, too much for his whistle....
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The complete works ... of ... Benjamin Franklin, 3. köide

Benjamin Franklin - 1806 - 586 lehte
...virtue, and perhaps his friends, to attain it, I have said to myself, This man gives too much for his whistle. When I saw another fond of popularity, constantly employing himself in political bustks, neglecting his own affairs, and ruining {hem by that neglect, Repays, indeed, says I, too much...
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A manual of essays, selected from various authors, 2. köide

Manual - 1809 - 324 lehte
...virtue, and perhaps his friends, to attain it, I have said to myself, This man gives too much for his whistle. When I saw another fond of popularity, constantly...employing himself in political bustles, neglecting his own aflairs, and ruining them by that neglect ; He pays indeed, said I, too much for his whistle. If I...
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Works of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of Memoirs of His Early Life

Benjamin Franklin - 1810 - 292 lehte
...perhaps his friends, to attain it, I have said to myself, this man give* too much for h!n whittle. When I saw another fond of popularity, constantly employing himself in political bustles, neglecting P his own affairs, and ruining them by that neglect: He pays indeed, say* i, loo much for his whistle....
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