 | Edmund Burke - History - 1821 - 758 pages
...money an hour beyond the time you promised, lest a disappointment shut up your friend's purse for ever. The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit...him easy six months longer. But if he sees you at a billiard-table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1821 - 232 pages
...money an hour beyond the time you promised, lest a disappointment shut up your friend's purse for ever. The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit...him easy six months longer : but if he sees you at a hilliard table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1821 - 232 pages
...promised, lest a disappointment shut up your friend's purse for ever. The most t,illing actions that aflect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your...him easy six months longer: but if he sees you at a hilliard table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money... | |
 | Apprentices - 1821 - 156 pages
...money an hour beyond the time you promised, lest a disappointment shut up your friend's purse for ever. The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit, are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at fire in the morning, or nine at night, 136 heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer. But,... | |
 | Mason Locke Weems - Statesmen - 1822 - 272 pages
...promised, lest a disappointment shut up your friend's purse forever. The most trifling actions, that effect a man's credit, are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or nin^ at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer; but if he see you at a billiard... | |
 | 1824 - 610 pages
...may be traced in his useful little tract, called * Advice to a young Tradesman,' wherein he says, ' The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit...by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer.' " Franklin's active mind now began to display itself in a thousand useful projects, lie published a... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1825 - 324 pages
...money an hour beyond the time you promised, lest a disappointment shut up your friend's purse for ever. The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit...him easy six months longer ; but if he sees you at a billiard-table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money... | |
 | Caleb Bingham - 1825 - 234 pages
...a disappointment shut up your friend's purse tor er ef. 7 . The most trilling actions which uilect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at live in the inon.ingvwr nine at night, heard by a creditor, nwkes ' easy six months Icnjtr. • 8.... | |
 | United States - 1826 - 422 pages
...money an hour beyond the time you promised, lest a disappointment shut up your friend's purse for ever. The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit...creditor, makes him easy six months longer ; but if he see you at a billiard-table, or hear your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for... | |
 | United States - 1826 - 440 pages
...money an hour beyond the time you promised, lest a disappointment shut up your friend's purse for ever. The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit...at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six mouths longer ; but if he see you at a billiard-table, or hear your voice at a tavern, when you should... | |
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The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer; but, if he sees you at a billiard-table, or hears your voice... 
