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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... hath excise or custom at the Gates , even out of Herbs , that are brought for Salads and Broths into the city . Having thus shewed the causes of men's wanting Money , take the following Character of such a man : The Character of those ...
... hath excise or custom at the Gates , even out of Herbs , that are brought for Salads and Broths into the city . Having thus shewed the causes of men's wanting Money , take the following Character of such a man : The Character of those ...
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... hath ordained , that all men should have need one of another , that none might live idly , or want employment : wherefore Idleness , as the bane of a Common - wealth , hath a curse attending upon it , it should be cloathed with rags ...
... hath ordained , that all men should have need one of another , that none might live idly , or want employment : wherefore Idleness , as the bane of a Common - wealth , hath a curse attending upon it , it should be cloathed with rags ...
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... hath been formerly brought up ; if of the inferior or middle sort of Tradesmen or Artificers , ( for those are chiefly concerned in this unhappiness , ) let such , First , Be very diligent and industrious in their respective trades and ...
... hath been formerly brought up ; if of the inferior or middle sort of Tradesmen or Artificers , ( for those are chiefly concerned in this unhappiness , ) let such , First , Be very diligent and industrious in their respective trades and ...
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... hath found him , ( for they are not so easily found in these days ) use all care possible to keep him , and to use him as one would do a crystal or Venice glass , to take him up softly , and use him tenderly ; or as you would a sword of ...
... hath found him , ( for they are not so easily found in these days ) use all care possible to keep him , and to use him as one would do a crystal or Venice glass , to take him up softly , and use him tenderly ; or as you would a sword of ...
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... hath an estate to repair , may not despise small things ; and commonly it is less dishonourable to abridge petty charges , than to , stoop to petty gettings . A man ought warily to begin charges , which once begun , will continue ; but ...
... hath an estate to repair , may not despise small things ; and commonly it is less dishonourable to abridge petty charges , than to , stoop to petty gettings . A man ought warily to begin charges , which once begun , will continue ; but ...
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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.