FOLLY; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us, by allowing an abatement. However, let us hearken to good advice, and something may be done for us; God helps them that help themselves, as Poor Richard says in his Almanack of 1733. Business - Page 375edited by - 1911 - 401 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Darrah - 1875 - 200 pages
...night, Till we meet in glad reunion, In the realms of Life and Light. A WORD IN YOUE EAE. FRANKLIN. TT would be thought a hard Government that should tax...but idleness taxes many of us much more : " Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labour wears, while the used key is always bright." How much more time... | |
| 1878 - 604 pages
...with the mind, if the same ideas circulated through the brain, would there not be mental inanition ? It would be thought a hard government that should...in its service. But idleness taxes many of us much moro; sloth, by bringing on disease, absolutely shortens life. Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than... | |
| Almanacs, American - 1870 - 684 pages
...and something may be done for us ; " God helps them that help themselves," as poor Richard *ays. I. It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one- tenth part of their time, to be employed in its service, but idleness taxes many of us much more... | |
| Jeremiah Chaplin - Biography & Autobiography - 1876 - 416 pages
...something may be done for as. " God helps them that help themselves," as Poor Richard says. • • ' 1, It would be thought a hard government that should...people one-tenth part of their time, to be employed with service. But Idleness taxes many of us much more, if we reckon all that is spent in absolute sloth,... | |
| Godfrey Golding - 1877 - 268 pages
...and something may be done for us. God helps them that help themselves, as poor Richard says. " ' I. It would be thought a hard government that should...employed in its service ; but idleness taxes many of us more ; sloth, by bringing on diseases, absolutely shortens life. Sloth, like rust, consumes faster... | |
| 1879 - 528 pages
...fulfilled!' — Extract from " The Giant Cities of Bashan, and Syria's Holy Places," by the Rev. JL Porter, IT would be thought a hard Government that should...to be employed in its service ; but idleness taxes manyof us much more. Sloth, by bringing on diseases, absolutely shortens life. Sloth, like rust, consumes... | |
| William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - Readers - 1879 - 508 pages
...something may be done for us. ' Heaven helps them that help themselves,' as Poor Richard says. 5. " It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part of their time to be employed in its service ; but idleness taxes many of us much more... | |
| John Miller D. Meiklejohn - 1880 - 426 pages
...confusion. From Lat. perplexus, entangled; from per, completely, anAplexus, folded or involved. i. It would be thought a hard government that should...to be employed in its service ; but idleness taxes us much more — sloth, by bringing on diseases, absolutely shortens life. ' Sloth, like rust, consumes... | |
| Granville series - 1882 - 330 pages
...listen to good advice, and something may be done for us; "God helps them that help themselves." 3. It would be thought a hard government that should...service ; but idleness taxes many of us much more, if we reckon all that is spent in absolute sloth, or in doing nothing, with that which is spent in... | |
| Secrets - 1882 - 74 pages
...We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them. It would be thought a hard government that should...part of their time to be employed in its service. But we are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much... | |
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