A fat kitchen makes a lean will; and Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women for tea forsook spinning and knitting, And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting. If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as of getting. The Indies have... Enquire Within Upon Everything - Page 321by Robert Kemp Philp - 1865 - 371 pagesFull view - About this book
| English literature - 1777 - 756 pages
...forfook hewing and fplitting." " If you would be wealthy, (fays he, in another Almanackl, think of faving as well as of getting : The Indies have not made Spain rich, becaufe her out-goes are greater than her in-comes." Away then with your expenfive follies, and yc-j... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - American prose literature - 1779 - 610 pages
...knitting, " And men for punch forfook hewing and " {plitting." " If you would be wealthy, think of faving, as " well as of getting. The Indies have not made " Spain rich, becaufe her outgoes are greater " than her incomes." f Away * Away then, with your expenfive follies,... | |
| several hands - 1780 - 612 pages
...Sancbs, fays, among many other good things, what follows : - ' If you would be wealthy, think of faying, as well as of getting. The Indies have not made Spain rich, becaufe her Outgoes. are greater than her incomes.' ' Away then, with your expenfive follies, and you... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - Books - 1780 - 612 pages
...Sancboy lays, among many other good things, what follows : .« If you would be wealthy, think of faving, as well as of getting. The Indies have not made Spain rich, becaufe her outgoes are greater than her incomes.' * Away then, with your expenfive follies, and you... | |
| James Anderson - Scotland - 1791 - 422 pages
...hewing and fplitting." " If you would be wealthy, (fays he, in another almanack), think of faving, as well as of getting : The Indies have not made Spain rich, becaufe her out-goes are greater than her incomes." Away then, with your expenfive follies, and you... | |
| Chapbooks - 1796 - 34 pages
...Since women for tea forsook spinning and knitting, And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting." " If you would be wealthy, think of saving, as well...because her out-goes are greater than her in-comes." ' Away, then, with your expensive follies, and you will not then have so much cause to complain of... | |
| 1797 - 522 pages
...knitting, Anil men (or punch forfook hewing and Witting." * If you would be wealthy, think of faving, as well as of getting. The Indies have not made Spain rich, becaufe her out-goes are greater than her in-comcs." ' Away, then, with your expenfive follies, and... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1797 - 516 pages
...knitting, And men for punch forfook hewing and fplitting." " If you would be wealthy, think of faving, as well as of getting. The Indies have not made Spain rich, becaufe her out-goes are greater than her in-comcs." ' Away, then, with your expenfive follies, and... | |
| Conduct of life - 1802 - 348 pages
...knitting, And men for punch forfook hewing and fplitting.1' " If you would be wealthy, think of faving, as well as of getting. The In'dies have not made Spain rich, becaufe her outgoes are greater than her incomes." " AWAY, then, with your expenfive follies, and you... | |
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