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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... tell you in the Preface ; for I am sure I do not intend it : for then the reading of the book would be needless . But this I will assure you , that whatever I have promised in the Title , I will make good in the book . With several ...
... tell you in the Preface ; for I am sure I do not intend it : for then the reading of the book would be needless . But this I will assure you , that whatever I have promised in the Title , I will make good in the book . With several ...
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... tell you , he is a very good man , I will assure you though at the same time , with re- spect to his morals , he is perhaps as pro- fligate a fellow as any in the whole parish ; and one that lives by oppressing his poor neighbours , and ...
... tell you , he is a very good man , I will assure you though at the same time , with re- spect to his morals , he is perhaps as pro- fligate a fellow as any in the whole parish ; and one that lives by oppressing his poor neighbours , and ...
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... telling him he had set up in his trade , and was got into a shop ; but wanted money to carry on his business , and desired him to lend him a little ; his Uncle finding he was getting into a way , out of his great generosity lends him ...
... telling him he had set up in his trade , and was got into a shop ; but wanted money to carry on his business , and desired him to lend him a little ; his Uncle finding he was getting into a way , out of his great generosity lends him ...
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... telling him , his dog was his servant ; and that for ought he knew , himself , or some of his gang , designed to rob his shop , but he would make an example of him , he was resolved Piercy seemed very little con- cerned at what the ...
... telling him , his dog was his servant ; and that for ought he knew , himself , or some of his gang , designed to rob his shop , but he would make an example of him , he was resolved Piercy seemed very little con- cerned at what the ...
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... tell the most palpable lies , and speak the ab- surdest nonsense that may be , and yet must be silent , and sit like a person that neither knew nor understood any thing . Now if all these miseries arising from the want of money were but ...
... tell the most palpable lies , and speak the ab- surdest nonsense that may be , and yet must be silent , and sit like a person that neither knew nor understood any thing . Now if all these miseries arising from the want of money were but ...
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
Popular passages
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.