 | Emily Taylor - 1876 - 292 pages
...at night, heard by a creditor, keeps him easy sir months longer ; but if he sees you at a billiard table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything. He that gets all he can honestly,... | |
 | 1877 - 348 pages
...night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer ; but if he sees you at a billiard-table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day ; demands it before he can receive it in a lump. (Franklin.) BANDBOXES : — " I hate anything that... | |
 | Godfrey Golding - 1877 - 268 pages
...heard by a creditor, will make him easy six months longer ; but if he sees you at a billiard-table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at your work, he sends for his money the next day." Industry is the best preventive of vice. The moment... | |
 | Edwin Troxell Freedley - 1878 - 384 pages
...Poor Richard," heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer; but if he see you at a billiard table, or hears your voice at a tavern* when you should be at work, he sends for his money next day, and demands it before he can receive it in a lump. 7 CHAPTER IV. ON MARRIAGE AND THE CHOICE... | |
 | Charles H. Kent - 1880 - 192 pages
...night, heard by a creditor makes him easy six mouths longer ; but if he sees you at the billiard-table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his. money the next day, demands it before he can receive it in a lump.'' — Franklin. JOHN MC DONOGH'S RULES. Upon the tomb... | |
 | John Miller D. Meiklejohn - 1880 - 426 pages
...night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer; but if he sees you at a billiard-table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day. — Franklin. 9. Whatever disgrace we have merited, it is almost always in our power to re-establish... | |
 | 1880 - 234 pages
...at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer ; but if he sees you at a billiard table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next d;iy ; demands it before he can receive it in a lump. It shows, besides, that you are mindful of what... | |
 | Phebe Lankester - 1880 - 270 pages
...night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer ; but if he sees you at a billiard-table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, ho sends for his money the next day ; demands it before he can receive it in a lump. " It shows, besides,... | |
 | Thomas Louis Haines, Levi W. Yaggy - 1881 - 672 pages
...nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer; but if he sees you at a billiard table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day. Deportment, honesty, caution, and a desire to do right carried out in practice, are to human character... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1882 - 442 pages
...night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer ; but if he sees you at a billiard-table, or hears your voice at a tavern when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day, demands it before he can receive it in a lump." In confirmation of Dr. Franklin's view, we present... | |
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The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit, are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or nine at night... 
