What maintains one vice would bring up two children. You may think, perhaps, that a little tea or a little punch now and then, diet a little more costly, clothes a little finer, and a little entertainment now and then, can be no great matter: but remember... The Life of Benjamin Franklin - Page 205by Orville Luther Holley - 1848 - 468 pagesFull view - About this book
| Benjamin Franklin - American prose literature - 1779 - 610 pages
...little tea, or a little punch now and ' then, diet a little more coftly, clothes a little ' finer, and a little entertainment now and then, ' can be no great matter j but remember, "Many " a little makes a mickle." Beware of little ex' pencesj "A fmall leak will fink... | |
| several hands - 1780 - 612 pages
...that a little tea, or a little punch now and then, diet a little more coftly, clothes a little finer, and a little entertainment now and then, can be no...^' Many a little makes a mickle." Beware of little expences ; '* A fmall leak will fink a great fhip," as Poor Richard fays ; and again, " Who dainties... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - Books - 1780 - 612 pages
...that a little tea, or a little punch now and then, diet a little more coftly, clothes a little finer, and a little entertainment now and then, can be no..." Many a little makes a mickle." Beware of little expences j " A fmall leak will fink a great fliip," as Poor Richard fays; and again, "Who dainties... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1780 - 614 pages
...that a little tea, or a little punch now and then, diet a little more'coftly, clothes a little finer, and a little entertainment now and then, can be no..." Many a little makes a mickle.'* Beware of little expences; " A fmall leak will fink a great (hip,** as Poor Richard fays ; and again, " Who dainties... | |
| James Anderson - Scotland - 1791 - 422 pages
...that a little tea, or a little punch now and then, diet a little more coftly, cloaths a little finer, and a little entertainment now and then, can be no great matter ; but remember what poor Richard fays, " Many a little makes a meikle ; and farther, " Beware of little expences ;... | |
| English literature - 1777 - 750 pages
...had a fmall eftste 1 little punch now and then, diet a little more coftly, cloaths a little finer, and a little entertainment now and then, can be no great matter; bat remember what Poor Richard fays, " Many a little makes a mickle;" and farther, " Beware of them,... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1797 - 516 pages
...that a little tea, or a little punch now and then, diet a little more coftly, cloaths a little finer, and a little entertainment now and then, can be no..." Many a little makes a mickle." Beware of little expences; « A fmal! leak will fink a great ftiip," as Poor Richard fays; and again, " Who dainties... | |
| 1797 - 522 pages
...that a little tea, or a. little punch now and then, diet a little more coftJv, cloaths a little finer, and a little entertainment now and then, can be no...great matter; but remember, " Many a little makes a mkk!e." Beware of little expcr.ccs; " A finall leak will f;nk a great fliip," as Poor Richard fays;... | |
| Conduct of life - 1802 - 348 pages
...that a little tea, or a little punch now and then, diet a little more coftly, cloaths a little finer, and a little entertainment now and then, can be no...remember many a little makes a mickle/' Beware of little expences ; " A fmall leak will fink a great fhip," as Poor Richard fays ; and again, " Who dainties... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1820 - 72 pages
...that a little tea, or a little punch now and then, diet a little more costly, clothes a little finer, and a little entertainment now and then, can be no great matter ; hut remember what poor Richard says, ' Many a little makes a mickle .' and farther, ' Beware of little... | |
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