 | Apprentices - 1821 - 156 pages
...fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave," as Poor Richard says. " If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be," as Poor Richard says, 'the greatest prodigality !' since, as he elsewhere tells us, ' Lost time is... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 356 pages
...catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave,' as poor Richard says. " ' If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be,' as poor Richard says, ' the greatest prodigality;' since, as he elsewhere tells us, ' lost time is... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1821 - 232 pages
...poor Richard says, ' the greatest prodigality ;' since, as he elsewhere tells us, ' lost time is nerer found again ; and what we call time enough always proves little enough :" let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpose ; so by diligence shall we do more with less... | |
 | William Pinnock - Readers (Elementary) - 1822 - 252 pages
...fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleep enough in the grave,' as Poor Richard says. 11. "If time be of all things the most precious, •wasting time must be (as Poor Richard says) ' the greatest prodigality,' since as he elsewhere tells us ' lost time is never... | |
 | Mason Locke Weems - Statesmen - 1822 - 272 pages
...fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave," as poor ilichaid says. "If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be," as poor Richard says, "the greatest prodigality;" since,. as he elsewhere tells us, "lost time is never... | |
 | H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 pages
...must be, " as Poor Richard says, „ the greatest prodigality ; " , since, as he elsewhere tells us, „Lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough, always proves little enough." Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpose: so by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity.... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave,' as Poor Richard says. 7 " 'If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be,' as Poor Richard says, 'the greatest prodigality;' since, as he elsewhere tells us, ' Lost time is never... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1825 - 324 pages
...time must be (as poor Richard says) the greatest prodigality ;' since, as he elsewhere tells us, ' Lost time is never found again ; and what we call time enough, always proves little enough.' Let ua then up and be doing, and doing to the purpose : so by diligence shall we do more with less... | |
 | John Bull - English wit and humor - 1825 - 782 pages
...fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave, as poor Richard says. If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be, as poor. Richard says, the greatest prodigality ; since, as he e'isewhert tells us, Lost'timc is never... | |
 | Literature - 1826 - 450 pages
...mufl be," as oor Richnrd fays, " the greatefl prodigality ;" fince, as he eliewhere tells us, " Loft time is never found again ; and what we call time enough always proves little enough :" Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpofe : fo by diligence ihall we do more with lefs... | |
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Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough always proves little enough. Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpose ; so by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity. Sloth... 
