 ... and that, perhaps, has induced some of us to attend it, because we cannot spare the ready money, and hope now to be fine without it. But, ah ! think what you do when you run in debt ; you give to another power over your liberty. If you cannot pay...  The complete works ... of ... Benjamin Franklin - Page 458by Benjamin Franklin - 1806Full view - About this book
 | William Chambers - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1853 - 858 pages
...your liberty. If you cannot pay at th.; time, you will be ashamed to see your creditor ; you will lie in fear when you speak to him : you will make poor,...veracity, and sink into base downright lying ; for, is poor Richard says, ' The second vice is lying ; the first is running in debt.' And again, tc the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 308 pages
...downright lying ; for, as poor Richard says, ' The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt.' And again, to the same purpose, ' Lying rides upon debt's back ;' whereas a free-bo*n Englishman ought not to be ashamed nor afraid to speak to any man living. But poverty often... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - American literature - 1854 - 580 pages
...to another powcr over your liberty. If you cannot pay at the time, you will be ashamed to see your creditor, you will be in fear when you speak to him,...second vice is lying, the first is running in debt," äs poor Richard says; and again, to the same purpose, „lying rides upon debt's back;" whereas a... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 pages
...to another power over your liberty. If you cannot pay at the time, you will be ashamed to see your creditor : you will be in fear when you speak to him...veracity, and sink into base, downright lying ; for, as poor Richard says, ' The second vice is lying ; the first is running in debt.' And again, to the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1855 - 522 pages
...the time, you will be ashamed to see your creditor, you will be in fear when you speak to him, when you will make poor, pitiful, sneaking excuses, and...downright lying ; for ' the second vice is lying, thejirst is running in debt,' as poor Richard Bays ; and again, to the same purpose, ' lying rides... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 650 pages
...to another power over your liberty. If you cannot pay at the time, you will be ashamed to see your creditor ; you will be in fear when you speak to him...whereas a freeborn Englishman ought not to be ashamed iior afraid to see or speak to any man living. But poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - United States - 1856 - 590 pages
...to another power over your liberty. If you cannot pay at the time, you will be ashamed to see your creditor; you will be in fear when you speak to him;...same purpose, Lying rides upon Debt's back; whereas a free-bora Englishman ought not to be ashamed nor afraid to see or speak to any man living. But poverty... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American prose literature - 1856 - 592 pages
...give to another power over your liberty. If you cannot payat the time, you will be ashamed to see your creditor ; you will be in fear when you speak to him...and sink into base, downright lying; for The second viet it lying, the first is running in debt, as Poor Richard says ; and again, to the same purpose,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1858 - 752 pages
...kitchen jire, as Poor Richard says. If you cannot pay at the time, you will be ashamed to sec your creditor; you will be in fear when you speak to him;...downright lying ; for The second vice is lying, the Jirst is running in debt, as Poor Richard says ; and again, to the same purpose, Lying rides upon Debt's... | |
 | William Chambers - Conduct of life - 1858 - 378 pages
...to another power over your liberty. If you cannot pay at the time, you will be ashamed to see your creditor : you will be in fear when you speak to him...veracity, and sink into base, downright lying ; for, as poor 1! id Kin I says: 'The second vice is lying; the first, is running into debt.' And again, to... | |
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