 | Evan Carton - 2006 - 401 стор.
...Franklin's Poor Richard. "A continual dropping will wear a stone." "God helps those who help themselves." "A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees." From Reformation theologian Richard Baxter's TTie Saint's Everlasting Rest, he gleaned: "Christianity... | |
 | James Roland Pennock, John William Chapman - 490 стор.
...thrift, and selfreliance could raise up the common man; their absence could bring down the nobleman. "A Ploughman on his Legs is higher than a Gentleman on his Knees, as Poor Richard says."27 The frontier was not responded to automatically; on the other hand, Americans certainly did... | |
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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... 
