 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1801 - 424 pages
...poverty would only ferve to make the poffeflbr ridiculous ; may diftrefs, "but cannot relieve him. Frugality, and even avarice, in the lower orders of mankind, are true ambition. Thefe afford the only ladder for the poor to rife to preferment. Teach then, my dear fir, to your fon... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1836 - 568 pages
...poverty woidd only serve to make the possessor ridiculous — may distress but cannot relieve him. Frugality, and even avarice, in the lower orders of...wandering uncle's example be placed before his eyes. ' My mother, I am informed, is almost blind ; even though I had the utmost inclination to return home,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 304 pages
...of poverty would only serve to make the possessor ridiculous ; may distress, but cannot relieve him. Frugality, and even avarice, in the lower orders of...wandering uncle's example be placed before his eyes. I had learned from books to be disinterested and generous, before I was taught from experience the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 438 pages
...the possessor ridiculous ; may distress, but cannot relieve him. Frugality, and even avarice, inthe lower orders of mankind, are true ambition. These...wandering uncle's example be placed before his eyes. I had learned from books to be disinterested and generous, before I was taught from experience the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1817 - 192 pages
...greatest merit in a state of poverty would only serve to make the possessor ridiculous," he adds : — "Teach then, my dear sir, to your son, thrift and...wandering uncle's example be placed before his eyes. I had learned from books to be disinterested and generous, before I was taught from experience the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 440 pages
...of poverty would only serve to make the possessor ridiculous ; may distress, but cannot relieve him. Frugality, and even avarice, in the lower orders of...wandering uncle's example be placed before his eyes. I had learned from books to be disinterested and generous, before I was taught from experience the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pages
...poverty would only serve to make the possessor ridiculous ; may distress, but can not relieve lúm. e whole fair, and could not get changr, .hough he had offered half a crown Ais eyes. 1 had learned from books to be disinterested and generous, before I was taught from experience... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1837 - 550 pages
...poverty would only serve to make the possessor ridiculous, — may distress but cannot relieve him.* Frugality, and even avarice, in the lower orders of...wandering uncle's example be placed before his eyes. I had learned from books to be disinterested and generous, before I was taught from experience the... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1837 - 558 pages
...poverty would only serve to make the possessor ridiculous, — may distress but cannot relieve him.* Frugality, and even avarice, in the lower orders of...wandering uncle's example be placed before his eyes. I had learned from books to be disinterested and generous, before I was taught from experience the... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1837 - 564 pages
...poverty would only serve to make the possessor ridiculous, — may distress but cannot relieve him.* Frugality, and even avarice, in the lower orders of...wandering uncle's example be placed before his eyes. I had learned from books to be disinterested and generous, before I was taught from experience the... | |
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Frugality, and even avarice, in the lower orders of mankind, are true ambition. These afford the only ladder for the poor to rise to preferment. Teach, then, my dear sir, to your son thrift and economy. Let his poor wandering uncle's example be placed... 
