 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...be done for us; 'God helps them that help themselves,' as Poor Richard says. 5 " It would bethought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth...sloth, by bringing on diseases, absolutely shortens life. ' Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright,' as... | |
 | John Bull - English wit and humor - 1825 - 782 pages
...Richard 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...sloth, by bringing on diseases, absolutely shortens life. Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labour* wears, while the used key is always bright, as... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1825 - 324 pages
...Richard says in his 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 all that is spent in absolute sloth, or doing of nothing, with that which is spent in... | |
 | United States - 1826 - 440 pages
...Richard says in his 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 all that is spent in absolute sloth, or doing- of nothing, with that which is spent in... | |
 | United States - 1826 - 422 pages
...Almanac. " It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one-tenth part of their rime, to be employed in its service; but idleness taxes many of us much more, if we reckon all that is spent in absolute sloth, or doing of nothing, with that which is spent in... | |
 | Literature - 1826 - 450 pages
...help themfelves," as Poor Richard fays. I. ' It woulá be thought a hard government that mould taxits people one. tenth part of their time, to be employed in its fervice : but idlenefs taxes many of us much more ; floth, by bringing on difeafes, abfolutely ihortens... | |
 | English literature - 1827 - 574 pages
...thereunto, he might wonder to find himself in any tolerable degree of understanding." CLARENDON. It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people...service ; but idleness taxes many of us much more, if we reckon all that is spent in absolute sloth, or doing of nothing, with that which U spent in idle... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 358 pages
...—Goldsmith. 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 many of us much more, if we reckon all that is spent in absolute sloth, or doing of nothing, with that which is spent in... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...so ourselves. 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 many of us .much more, if we reckon all that is spent in absolute sloth, or doing of nothing, with that which is spent in... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 pages
...something may be done for us; 'God helps them that help themselves,' as Poor Richard says. 5 "It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people...sloth, ' by bringing on diseases, absolutely shortens life. ' Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used ^ key is always bright,'... | |
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... commissioners cannot ease 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. 
