 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...  The Quarterly review - Pàgina 3021836Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1801 - 424 pàgines
...greateft merit in a ftate of 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 304 pàgines
...more by experience than precept ; take my word for it, I say, that books teach us very little of the world. The greatest merit in a state of poverty would...then, my dear sir, to your son thrift and economy. Let his poor wandering uncle's example be placed before his eyes. I had learned from books to be disinterested... | |
 | 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 pàgines
...I say, that books teach us very little of the world. The greatest merit in a state of poverty woidd only serve to make the possessor ridiculous — may...then, my dear Sir, to your son, thrift and economy. Let his poor wandering uncle's example be placed before his eyes. ' My mother, I am informed, is almost... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 438 pàgines
...more by experience than precept : take my word for it, I say, that books teach us very little of the world. The greatest merit in a state of poverty would...but cannot relieve him. Frugality, and even avarice, inthe lower orders of mankind, are true ambition. These afford the only ladder for the poor to rise... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1817 - 192 pàgines
...romance or a novel ; urging that books teach very little of the world. Then, after affirming that " the 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 economy. Let his poor wandering uncle's... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 440 pàgines
...more by experience than precept ; take my word for it, I say, that books teach us very little of the world. The greatest merit in a state of poverty would...then, my dear sir, to your son thrift and economy. Let his poor wandering uncle's example be placed before his eyes. I had learned from books to be disinterested... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pàgines
...more by experience than precept; take my word for it, I say, that books teach us very little of the raham returned, we had both agreed hat money was never...be come at as now. Abraham returned to inform us, t can not relieve lúm. Frugality, and even avarice, in the lower orders of mankind, are true ambition.... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1837 - 564 pàgines
...more by experience than precept — take my word for it, 1 say, that books teach us very little of the world. The greatest merit in a state of poverty would...then, my dear Sir, to your son thrift and economy. Let his poor wandering uncle's example be placed before his eyes. I had learned from books to be disinterested... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1837 - 554 pàgines
...more by experience than precept — take my word for it, I say, that books teach us very little of the world. The greatest merit in a state of poverty would...then, my dear Sir, to your son thrift and economy. Let his poor wandering uncle's example be placed before his eyes. I had learned from books to be disinterested... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1837 - 558 pàgines
...more by experience than precept — take my word for it, I say, that books teach us very little of the world. The greatest merit in a state of poverty would...then, my dear Sir, to your son thrift and economy. Let his poor wandering uncle's example be placed before his eyes. I had learned from books to be disinterested... | |
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