 | Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson, Mrs. Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz - American literature - 1894 - 592 pages
...you give too much for your whistle. If I see one fond of appearance, or fine clothes, fine houses, fine furniture, fine equipages, all above his fortune,...for which he contracts debts, and ends his career in a prison, Alas! say I, he has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle. When I see a beautiful, sweet-tempered... | |
 | Edward Sylvester Ellis - United States - 1896 - 184 pages
...you give too m uch for your whistle. "If I see one fond of appearance, or fine clothes, fine houses, fine furniture, fine equipages, all above his fortune,...for which he contracts debts, and ends his career in a prison, Alas! say I, he has paid dear , very dear, for his whistle. "When I see a beautiful, sweet-tempered... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1897 - 330 pages
...his fortune, for which he contracts debts, and ends his career in a prison, Alas! say I, he has f aid dear, very dear, for his whistle. " When I see a beautiful, sweet-tempered girl married to 1 Lev'ees : royal receptions. an ill-natured brute of a husband, What a pity, say I, thai she should... | |
 | Readers - 1898 - 266 pages
...you give too much for your whistle. If I see one fond of appearance, or fine clothes, fine houses, fine furniture, fine equipages, all above his fortune,...for which he contracts debts, and ends his career in a prison, alas ! say I, he has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle. In short, I conceive that a great... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 556 pages
...you gi1'e too much for your whistle. If I see one fond of appearance, or fine clothes, fine houses, fine furniture, fine equipages, all above his fortune,...for which he contracts debts, and ends his career in a prison, Alas ! say I, he has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle. When I see a beautiful, sweet-tempered... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1899 - 338 pages
...equipages, all above his fortune, for which he contracts debts, and ends his career in a prison, Alas ! say I, he has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle. "...I see a beautiful, sweet-tempered girl married to 1 Lev'ees : royal receptions. an ill-natured brute of a husband, What a pity, say I, that she should... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Anthologies - 1899 - 526 pages
...you give too much for your whistle, If I see one fond of appearance, or fine clothes, fine houses, fine furniture, fine equipages, all above his fortune,...for which he contracts debts, and ends his career in a prison, Alas ! say I, he has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle. When I see a beautiful, sweet-tempered... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 430 pages
...you give too much for your whistle. If I see one fond of appearance, or fine clothes, fine houses, fine furniture, fine equipages, all above his fortune,...for which he contracts debts, and ends his career in a prison, Alas ! say I, he has paid dear, very dear for his whistle. When I see a beautiful, sweet-tempered... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1899 - 204 pages
...you give too much for your whistle. If I see one fond of appearance, or fine clothes, fine houses, fine furniture, fine equipages, all above his fortune, for which he contracts debts and ends his days in prison, Alas ! say I, he has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle. When I see a beautiful,... | |
 | Literature - 1900 - 424 pages
...you give too much for your whistle. If I see one fond of appearance, or fine clothes, fine houses, fine furniture, fine equipages, all above his fortune,...for which he contracts debts, and ends his career in a prison, Alas ! say I, he has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle. POOR RICHARD'S SAYINGS. BENJAMIN... | |
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I, you are providing pain for yourself, instead of pleasure; you give too much for your whistle. 
