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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... look upon it as a good equivalent for what commodities they have to sell , both the English , Dutch , and French trading to the Indians with it above six hundred miles North and South from New - England . Which is sufficient to shew ...
... look upon it as a good equivalent for what commodities they have to sell , both the English , Dutch , and French trading to the Indians with it above six hundred miles North and South from New - England . Which is sufficient to shew ...
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... look backward into the better and wiser ages of the world , Vir- tue , though clothed in rags , was more esteemed than the trappings of the golden Ass : ' tis in these last and worst of days , that Vice has got such an ascendant in the ...
... look backward into the better and wiser ages of the world , Vir- tue , though clothed in rags , was more esteemed than the trappings of the golden Ass : ' tis in these last and worst of days , that Vice has got such an ascendant in the ...
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... looks upon to be the ill - naturedest man in the world , for having once done him a kindness , he is ever after twitting him in the teeth with it . In short , the man that's in debt , has his mind so loaded with fetters , that at best ...
... looks upon to be the ill - naturedest man in the world , for having once done him a kindness , he is ever after twitting him in the teeth with it . In short , the man that's in debt , has his mind so loaded with fetters , that at best ...
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Art. This same starv'd ' prentice brings ; one that does look With a face blurr'd more than his master's book . One that in any chink can peeping lie , More slender than the yard he measures by ; When my poor stomach barks for meat , I ...
Art. This same starv'd ' prentice brings ; one that does look With a face blurr'd more than his master's book . One that in any chink can peeping lie , More slender than the yard he measures by ; When my poor stomach barks for meat , I ...
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... look for company ; and in a word , to spend any thing , to live any where , save at home in their own houses , where they are sure to have no quiet . Others there are again , who match them- selves ( for a little handsomeness , and eye ...
... look for company ; and in a word , to spend any thing , to live any where , save at home in their own houses , where they are sure to have no quiet . Others there are again , who match them- selves ( for a little handsomeness , and eye ...
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.