 | Alfred John Morris - 1853 - 168 pàgines
...elsewhere when it has not been, that it is very inferior to what it really is, belong to falsehood. "It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer, but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth." It is as old as Solomon—as modern as ourselves—to depreciate in buying, and... | |
 | Henry Augustus Boardman - 1853 - 432 pàgines
...words ? there is more hope of a fool than of him. Meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips. " It is naught, it is naught," saith the buyer ; but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth. There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing : there is that maketh himself... | |
 | Henry Augustus Boardman - 1853 - 434 pàgines
...words ? there is more hope of a fool than of him. Meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips. " It is naught, it is naught," saith the buyer ; but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth. A SAFE CHART. 97 There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing : there its... | |
 | Robert Shittler - 1853 - 588 pàgines
...not sleep, lest thou come to poverty ; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread. 14 It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer : but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth. 15 There is gold, and amultitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious... | |
 | 1853 - 618 pàgines
...purchasers in his day, is equally applicable to thousands at the present time — " It is naught, k is naught, saith the buyer ; but when he is gone his way, then he T boasteth." The community is full of falsehoods of that kind, and they are not all confined... | |
 | James Shergold Boone - 1853 - 440 pàgines
...the Book of Proverbs, which is, I fear, almost as applicable now as it was in the days of Solomon : ' It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he goeth away, then he boasteth.' The Lord hath need of you in your family, so that you should regulate... | |
 | Hugh Stowell - 1854 - 344 pàgines
...Ghost portray the spirit of the present day, when he thus portrayed the spirit of ancient times—" It is naught, it is naught saith the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth." How often do our buyers strive to cheapen the articles for which they treat beyond... | |
 | 1946 - 396 pàgines
...bones. It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house. It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth. Here, as in eighteenth-century English verse, a kind of closed couplet is used for... | |
 | 1832 - 592 pàgines
...dealer to the other, till nothing but what is either spurious or doubtful appears ; and as of old, " It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer; but when he has gone his way, then he boasteth." The purchase once made, — dirt, a coat of varnish, a bad light,... | |
 | 1920 - 594 pàgines
...Proverbs is too well known to require quoting, but I cannot refrain from offering one or two examples. "It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer, but when he goeth his way then he boasteth." Wha description of the attitude of the bargain-hunter, "Even a fool... | |
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It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth. 
