 | Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1855 - 522 pages
...help hands, for I have no lands,' or. if I have, they are smartly taxed. ' He that hath a trade hatn an estate ; and, he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor,' as poor Richard says. But then the trade must be worked at, and the calling well followed, or neither... | |
 | William Chambers - 1856 - 444 pages
...an estate ; and he that hath a calling, hath an office of profit and honour," as Poor Richard says ; but then the trade must be worked at, and the calling...estate nor the office will enable us to pay our taxes. If we are industrious, wo shall never starve ; for " at the working-man's house hunger looks in, but... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 570 pages
...gains without pains; then help, hands, for I have no lands; or, if I have, they are smartly taxed. He that hath a trade hath an estate, and he that hath a calling, hath an office of profit and honour; but then the trade must be worked at, and the calling followed, or neither the estate nor the... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 372 pages
...extravagancies of tliis passion, as any one of the old philosophers. • — dddison. DCXCIV. He that bath a trade, hath an estate, and he that hath a calling, hath an office of profit and honour : but then the trade must be worked at, and the calling well followed, or neither the estate... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American prose literature - 1856 - 592 pages
...nf ¡in.fil and honour, as Poor Richard says ; but thon the trade must be worked at, and the calling followed, or neither the estate nor the office will enable us to pay our taxes. If we are industrious, we shall never starve ; for, M the icorking тaa t Aоs« /mneer looks in, lint... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Cookery - 1857 - 730 pages
...die fasting. 3441. There are no gains without pains. 3442. Help, hands, for I have no lands. 3443. He that hath a trade, hath an estate, and he that...a calling, hath an office of profit and honor; but the trade must be worked at, and the calling well followed, or neither will enable us to pay our taxes.... | |
 | 1858 - 588 pages
...a painted one. Unseemly bounty is waste both of wealth and wit. — Feltham. A TRADE AN ESTATE. — He that hath a trade, hath an estate, and he that hath a calling, hath an office of profit and honour : but then the trade must be worked at, and the calling well followed, or neither the estate... | |
 | William Chambers - Conduct of life - 1858 - 378 pages
...for I have no lands ; or if I have, they are smartly taxed;' and, as poor Richard likewise observes: 'He that hath a trade, hath an estate ; and he that hath a calling, hath an office of profit and honour;' but then the trade must be worked at, and the calling well followed, or neither the estate... | |
 | Ferdinand E. A. Gasc - French language - 1858 - 362 pages
...are smartly taxed ;'2 and (as poor Richard likewise observes) ' He that hath a trade hath an estate,3 and he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honour ;'4 but then the trade must be worked at, and the calling well followed, or5 neither the estate... | |
 | Hugh Stowell Brown - Baptists - 1859 - 428 pages
...infinitely preferable on moral grounds — it is also far preferable upon merely secular grounds. " He that hath ^a trade hath an estate ; and he that...hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor," says "Poor Richard." So the man who has a trade is not very badly off, he has no reason to complain... | |
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He that hath a Trade hath an Estate, and He that hath a Calling hath an Office of Profit and Honor; but then the Trade must be worked at, and the Calling well followed, or neither the Estate, nor the Office, will enable us to pay our Taxes.— If we are... 
