 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...  The Cottager's monthly visitor - Page 2851822Full view - About this book
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1856 - 592 lehte
...fancy you consult, consult your parse. 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 ton more, that your appearance may be all of a piece ; but Poor Dick says, It is easier to suppress... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1857 - 730 lehte
...consult, consult your purse. 3500. Pride is as lond a beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy. 3501. It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. 3502. Yessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep the shore. 3503. Pride that shines... | |
 | John Warner Barber - 1857 - 274 lehte
...is angry with his sheep, he sends them a blind guide. When the horse Is stolen, you shut the door. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more to correspond with it. When you obey your superior, you instruct your inferior. Where ignorance is... | |
 | William Chambers - 1858 - 378 lehte
...you consult, consult your purse.' And again : 'Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy.' When you have bought one fine thing,...more, that your appearance may be all of a piece ; but poor Dick says : ' It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.'... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1858 - 454 lehte
...your purse." 861. AND again, " Pride is as loud s beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy." 862. WHEN you have bought one fine thing, you must buy...more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but Poor Dick says, "It is easier to suppress the first desiitf than to satisfy all that follow it ;" and... | |
 | Ferdinand E. A. Gasc - 1858 - 362 lehte
...taking out of (pniser A) the 19 'and with a great deal more meal-tub, without putting any- sauciness.' fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece ;l but poor Dick says, ' It is easier to suppress2 the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow... | |
 | Elliot G. Storke - 1859 - 832 lehte
...fancy you consult, consult your purse." And again, "Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy." When you have bought one fine thing,...more, that your appearance may 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... | |
 | 1859 - 80 lehte
...dry, they know the worth of water. If you would know the value of money, go and try and borrow some. It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. Lying rides upon debt's back. It is hard for an empty purse to stand upright. Creditors have better... | |
 | Sunbeams - 1861 - 368 lehte
...Knowledge of good and evil is from thee. — Cowper. Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you...ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece : it is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it. — Franklin. —... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1861 - 304 lehte
...little boats should keep near shore." And qualified himself to pen such maxims as the following : — " It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it." " It is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as for the frog to swell in order to equal the... | |
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