 How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping Fox catches no Poultry, and that There will be sleeping enough in the Grave, as Poor Richard says.  The Moral Class-book - Sida 20redigerad av - 1856 - 168 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1779 - 610 sidor
...be," as Poor Richard « fays, " the greateft prodigality;" fince, as he • elfewhere tells us, " Loft time is never found " again ; and what we call time...always *' proves little enough :" Let us then up and ' be doing, and doing to the purpofe ; fo by di• ligence fliall we do more with lefs perplexity.... | |
 | several hands - 1780 - 612 sidor
...rnuft be," as Poor RicKafd fays, " the greateft prodigality ;" fince, as he elfewhere tells us, " Loft time is never found again ; and what we call time...always proves little enough :" let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpofe; fo by diligence (hall we do more with lefs perplexity. *' Sloth... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 1780 - 612 sidor
...mud be," as Poor Richard fays, " the greateft prodigality;" fince, as he elfewhere tells us, " Loft time is never found again ; and what we call time...always proves little enough :" let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpofe; fo by diligence fhall we do more with lefs perplexity. " Sloth... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1780 - 614 sidor
...muft be," as Poor Richard fays, " the greateft prodigality ;" fince, as he elfewhere tells us, " Loft time is never found again ; and what we call time...always proves little enough :" let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpofc ; fo by diligence fhall we do more with lefs perplexity. " Sloth... | |
 | James Anderson - 1791 - 422 sidor
...time muft be (as poor Richard fays} the gr-eateft prodigality ;" finee, as he elfewhere tells, " 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 fliall we do more with lefs perplexity. " Sloth... | |
 | 1796 - 34 sidor
...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...enough always proves little enough." Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpose : so by diligence we shall do more with less perplexity. " Sloth... | |
 | 1797 - 522 sidor
...be," as Poor Richard fays, «« the greateft prodigality ;" fince, ai he elfcwhere tells us, " Loll 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 purpoie : fo by diligence (hall we do more with lels perplexity. " Sloth... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1797 - 516 sidor
...muft be," as Poor Richard fays, " the grcateft prodigality ;" fince, as he elfewhere tells us, " Loll 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 (hall we do more with lefs perplexity. " Sloth... | |
 | 1802 - 348 sidor
...muft be," as Poor Richard fays, " the greateft prodigality ;" fince, as he elfewhere tells us, " Loft time is never found again ; and what we call time...always proves little enough :" Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpofe ; fo by diligence fhall we do more 'with -lefs perplexity. " Sloth... | |
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