The art of money getting! To which is added, The way to get a penny; or, The art of thrivingM'Donnel, 1820 - 180 pages |
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... fire , By which they often times expire , Tumbling half rotten to their graves ; Nor yet the Surgeon's powdering - tub , Where their old sores they scrub , Fright them from their allegiance ; till they be Devoted slaves and subjects ...
... fire , By which they often times expire , Tumbling half rotten to their graves ; Nor yet the Surgeon's powdering - tub , Where their old sores they scrub , Fright them from their allegiance ; till they be Devoted slaves and subjects ...
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... fire of London ; whereby some that had great estates one week , had scarce bread to eat the next week . And particular per- sons had particular losses by fire , many times since . Thus , in a time of war , many are unavoidably losers ...
... fire of London ; whereby some that had great estates one week , had scarce bread to eat the next week . And particular per- sons had particular losses by fire , many times since . Thus , in a time of war , many are unavoidably losers ...
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... fire , loss at sea , robbery and theft on land , wounds , lameness , sickness , & c . Many run out of great estates , and have undone themselves by over sumptuous building , above and beyond their means and estates . Others have been ...
... fire , loss at sea , robbery and theft on land , wounds , lameness , sickness , & c . Many run out of great estates , and have undone themselves by over sumptuous building , above and beyond their means and estates . Others have been ...
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... fires , water - works , extrac- tions , and the like . If any would be taught the true use of money , let him travel into Italy , for the Italian ( the Florentine especially ) is able to teach all the world thrift . For , Italy being ...
... fires , water - works , extrac- tions , and the like . If any would be taught the true use of money , let him travel into Italy , for the Italian ( the Florentine especially ) is able to teach all the world thrift . For , Italy being ...
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... fire , and a clean room to confer together , or write to any friend about business . But to have in a bill eight shillings brought up for an ordinary capon ( as my Lord of Nor- thampton's gentlemen had at Greenwich , in King James's ...
... fire , and a clean room to confer together , or write to any friend about business . But to have in a bill eight shillings brought up for an ordinary capon ( as my Lord of Nor- thampton's gentlemen had at Greenwich , in King James's ...
Common terms and phrases
Antiperistasis Art of Thriving Bishop of GLASGOW body boiled borrow brave bread and salt brew butter called CARDINAL GRANVELL cerned cheap Clothes coined debt dili diligent dish of food doth drink easy of digestion eaten with bread eggs expences fear fire fire of London Fleet Street fool furbelowed give hath herbs honest horse hundred pounds idle Jocelin Justice keep money labour land lend little salt live look Lord man's meal meat men's milk mind miserable never thrive noble nourishment nutriment oatmeal Piercy pint Pleasant Art pocket poor pottage poverty purse quart reckoned recreations rich ruin Samnites scorn servants shalt Shekels shew shillings slothful sort spare spend spoonful stomach sure Surety-Ship tell thee thereof thing thousand pounds thyself tion trade unto usurer vinegar want of money wants money wholesome wise wormwood worth
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Page 101 - Sum up at night, what thou hast done by day ; And in the morning, what thou hast to do. Dress and undress thy soul : mark the decay And growth of it : if with thy watch, that too Be down, then wind up both ; since we shall be Most surely judged, make thy accounts agree.
Page 67 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Page 93 - EXCEPT the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it : except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
Page 67 - Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep : so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Page 97 - Get to live ; Then live, and use it: else, it is not true That thou hast gotten. Surely use alone Makes money not a contemptible stone.
Page 78 - ... than offereth it. If thou be bound for a stranger, thou art a fool ; if for a merchant, thou puttest thy estate to learn to swim ; if for a churchman, he hath no inheritance ; if for a lawyer, he will find an...
Page 78 - ... not. Therefore, from suretyship as from a manslayer or enchanter bless thyself, for the best profit and return will be this: that if thou force him for whom thou art bound to pay it himself, he will become thy enemy; if thou...
Page 66 - In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
Page 66 - Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men...
Page 101 - In brief, acquit thee bravely ; play the man. Look not on pleasures as they come, but go. Defer not the least virtue : life's poor span Make not an ell, by trifling in thy woe. If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains : If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.