 | John Bull - English wit and humor - 1825 - 782 pages
...says. " It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one-tenth part ot their time, to be employed in its service : but idleness taxes many of us much more ; sloth, by bringing on diseases, absolutely shortens life. Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than... | |
 | General reader - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1827 - 246 pages
...thought a bad government that should tax its people one-tenth part of their time, to be employed in their service ; but idleness taxes many of us much more,...employments, or amusements that amount to nothing. Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labour wears, while the key often used is always bright. — Franklin.... | |
 | English literature - 1827 - 574 pages
...CLARENDON. It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part of their time, to be employed in its service ; but idleness taxes...absolute sloth, or doing of nothing, with that which U spent in idle employments, or amusements that amount to nothing. Sloth, by bringing on diseases,... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 358 pages
...CCCCXCIV. It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one-tenth part of their time, to be employed in its service; but idleness taxes...than labour wears, while the key often used is always bright.—Franklin. ccccxcv. As the rose tree is composed of the sweetest flowers, ami the sharpest... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...ccccxclv. It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one-tenth part of their time, to be employed in its service; but idleness taxes...doing of nothing, with that which is spent in idle en> ployments, or amusements that amount to nothing, Sloth, by bringing on diseases, absolutely shortens... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 pages
...says. 5 "It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part of their time, to be employed in its service: but idleness taxes many of us much more; sloth, ' by bringing on diseases, absolutely shortens life. ' Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1831 - 314 pages
...government that should tax its people one-tenth part of their tune, to he employed in its service ; hut idleness taxes many of us much more, if we reckon all that is spent in ahsolute sloth, or doing of nothing, with that which is spent in idle employments, or amusements that... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1831 - 290 pages
...It would b« thought a hard government that should lax its people one-tenth part of their lime to he employed in its service : but idleness taxes many of us much more: sloth, by bringing on diseases, absolutely shortens life. " Sloth, like rust, con* sumes faster than... | |
 | Working class - 1832 - 220 pages
...I. " It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one-tenth part of their time to be employed in its service : but idleness taxes many of us much more ; sloth, by bringing on diseases, absolutely shortens life. •"Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American essays - 1834 - 310 pages
...Almanac. "It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one-tenth part of their time, to be employed in its service; but idleness taxes many of us much more, if we reckon aflf that is spent in absolute sloth, or doing of nothing, with that which is spent in idle employments,... | |
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... or deliver us by allowing an Abatement. However let us hearken to good Advice, and something may be done for us; God helps them that help themselves, as Poor Richard says, in his Almanack of 1733. 
