| Benjamin Franklin - Political science - 1840 - 342 pages
...labour and industry ? May not luxury, therefore, produce more than it consumes, if, without such a spur, people would be as they are naturally enough inclined to be, lazy and indolent. To this purpose I remember a circumstance. The skipper of a shallop, employed between Cape May and Philadelphia,... | |
| Author of The young man's own book - English letters - 1841 - 338 pages
...labour and industry ? May not luxury, therefore, produce more than it consumes, if, without such a spur, people would be, as they are naturally enough inclined to be, lazy and indolent ? To this purpose I remember a circumstance. The skipper of a shallop, employed between Cape May and Phi. ladelphia,... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 320 pages
...industry? May not luxury therefore produce more than it consumes, if, without such a spur, people would he, as they are naturally enough inclined to be, lazy and indolent. To this purpose I rememher a circumstance. The skipper of a shallop, employed hetween Cape May and Philadelphia,... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1853 - 522 pages
...labor and industry ? May not luxury therefore produce more than it consumes, if without such a spur people would be, as they are naturally enough inclined to be, lazy and indolent ? To this purpose, I remember a circumstance. The skipper of a shallop, employed between Cape May and Philadelphia,... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 pages
...labor and industry ? May not luxury therefore, produce more than it consiimes, if, without such a spur, people would be, as they are naturally enough inclined to be, lazy and indolent ? To this purpose I remember a circumstance. The skipper of a shallop, employed between Cape May and Philadelphia... | |
| William Russell - English language - 1856 - 240 pages
...labor and industry? May not luxury, therefore, produce more than it consumes, if, without such a spur, people would be, as they are naturally enough inclined to be, lazy and indolent ? In our commercial towns upon the seacoast, fortunes will occasionally be made. Some of those who... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1864 - 260 pages
...labor and industry? May not luxury, therefore, produce more than it consumes, if, without such a spur, people would be, as they are naturally enough inclined to be, lazy and indolent. To this purpose I remember a circumstance. The skipper of a shallop, employed between Cape May and Philadelphia,... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 796 pages
...labor and industry? May not luxury, therefore, produce more than it consumes, if without such a spur people would be, as they are naturally enough inclined to be, lazy and indolent ? To this purpose I remember a circumstance. The skipper of a shallop, employed between Cape May and Philadelphia,... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 556 pages
...labor and industry? May not luxury, therefore, produce more than it consumes, if without such a spur people would be, as they are naturally enough inclined to be, lazy and indolent ? To this purpose I remember a circumstance. The skipper of a shallop, employed between Cape May and Philadelphia,... | |
| Jeremiah Chaplin - Biography & Autobiography - 1876 - 416 pages
...labor and industry? May not luxury, therefore, produce more than it consumes, if without such a spur people would be, as they are naturally enough inclined to be, lazy and indolent?" And to illustrate his meaning, he related an incident which occurred about this time. " The skipper... | |
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