 | Benjamin Franklin - 1864 - 260 pàgines
...give too much for your whistle. If I see one fond of fine clothes, fine furniture, fine equipages, all above his fortune., for which he contracts debts, and ends his career in prison ; ALa', says I, he has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle. When I see a beautiful, sweet-tempered... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 798 pàgines
...give too much for your whistle. If I see one fond of fine clothes, fine furniture, fine equipages, all above his fortune, for which he contracts debts,...prison, — Alas, says I, he has paid dear, very dear, fur his whistle. When I sec a beautiful, sweet-tempered girl, married to an illnatured brute of a husband,... | |
 | 1865 - 138 pàgines
...whistle. "HI see one fond of appearance, or fine clothes, fine houses, fine furniture, fine equipages, all above his fortune, for which he contracts debts, and ends his career in a prison, Alas, say I, he has paid dear, vei•y dear, for his whistle." " In short, I conceive that... | |
 | Friedrich Otto Froembling - 1866 - 438 pàgines
...pay too much for your whistle." If I saw one fond of fine clothes, fine furniture, fine equipages , all above his fortune , for which he contracts debts, and ends his career in prison: "Alas," said I, "he has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle." In short, I conceived that a great part of... | |
 | Emil Otto - 1869 - 192 pàgines
...give too much for your whistle. If I see one, fond of fine clothes, fine furniture, fine equipages, all above his fortune, for which he contracts* debts, and ends his career in prison ; Alas, say I, he has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle. 50 When I see a beautiful, sweet-tempered girl,... | |
 | Louis Le Brun, Henri van Laun - 1869 - 290 pàgines
...politiqucs. — u See § 36, 9.— 15 Every kind of comfortable living, Toute espece de bien-etre. all above his fortune, for which he contracts debts, and ends his career in prison : " Alas ! " said I, " he has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle." In short, I conceived that a great part... | |
 | Mason Locke Weems - 1873 - 266 pàgines
...give loo much for your whistle. If I see one fond of fine clothes, fine furniture, fine equipages, all above his fortune, for which he contracts debts, and ends his crireer in prison; alas, says I, he has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle. When I see a beautiful... | |
 | William Makepeace Thayer - 1875 - 298 pàgines
...whistle. " If I see one fond of appearance, or fino clothes, fine houses, fine furniture, fine equipages, all above his fortune, for which he contracts debts, and ends his career in a prison, Alas ! say I, lie has paid dear, very dear for his whistle. " When I see a beautiful, sweet-tempered... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 768 pàgines
...whistle. If I see one fond of appearance, or fine clothes, fine houses, fine furniture, fine equipages, all above his fortune, for which he contracts debts, and ends his career in a prison, Alas ! say I, he has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle. When I see a beautiful, sweet-tempered... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 562 pàgines
...•whistle. If I see one fond of appearance, or fine clothes, fine houses, fine furniture, fine equipages, all above his fortune, for which he contracts debts, and ends his career in a prison, Alas ! say I, he has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle. When I see a beautiful, sweet-tempered... | |
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Mistaken man, said I, you are providing pain for yourself, instead of pleasure; you give too much for your whistle. 
