 | Robert Christy - 1887 - 742 стор.
...poor. Chinese. 6. A man must live by his trade. 7. A man of many trades begs his bread on Sundays. 8. A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees. franklin. 9. A trade is an estate for life. Turk. 10. Adam got a hoe and Eve got a spinning-wheel 591... | |
 | 1889 - 228 стор.
...go ; if not, send. If you would have a faithful servant, serve yourself. Have the courage to say no. A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees. If you would know the value of money go and try to borrow some. It is easier to suppress the first... | |
 | William J. Walsh - 1890 - 450 стор.
...meaning of the following ' Sayings of Poor Richard ' : — " 'At a great pennyworth pause a while ; ' '" A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.'" Although the point is not perhaps directly relevant to the matter with which I am dealing here, I ought... | |
 | 1919 - 986 стор.
...will not fill a Bushel; a small Leak will sink a great Ship; he that lives upon Hope will die fasting; a Ploughman on his Legs is higher than a Gentleman on his Knees." Many of these " gleanings from the Sense of All Ages and Nations" were published in 1757 in a pamphlet... | |
 | 1890 - 830 стор.
...pounds will take care of themselves. No man shall be called rich as long as he has a debt to pa}', for a ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees. A GREAT many men employ the first of their years to make their last miserable. Spare when young, and... | |
 | 1891 - 508 стор.
...despised, but who, through in_ dustry and frugality, have maintained their standing ; in which case it appears plainly, that A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his fences, as Poor Richard says. Perhaps they have had. a small estate left them, which they knew not... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 518 стор.
...formerly despised, but who, through industry and frugality, have maintained their standing; in which case it appears plainly, that 'A ploughman on his legs...higher than a gentleman on his knees," as Poor Richard says. Perhaps they have had a small estate left them, which they knew not the getting of; they think,... | |
 | 1890 - 500 стор.
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 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1861 - 794 стор.
...formerly despised, but who, through industry and frugality, have maintained their standing ; in which case it appears plainly, that " a ploughman on his legs...higher than a gentleman on his knees," as Poor Richard says. Perhaps they had a small estate left them, which they knew not the getting of; they think " it... | |
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A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees, as Poor Richard says. Perhaps they have had a small estate left them, which they knew not the getting of; they think 'Tis day, and will never be night... 
