 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 496 pages
...more through some niggardliness, or ill grace, in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence. A very few pounds a year would ease that man of the scandal of avarice. LXXXI. Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn, and guides them their own... | |
 | Charles Henry Wilson - Authors, Irish - 1804 - 250 pages
...more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence. A very few pounds .a year would ease that man of the scandal of avarke." What a pity it is, that Swift so soon forgot this maxim himself! CXXXVIII. DR. BERKELEY. Swift,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 496 pages
...more through some niggardliness, or ill grace, in little or inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence. A very few pounds a year would ease that maa of the scandal of avarice. Some men's Avit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 322 pages
...covetousness is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness, or ill grace, in little and inconsiderable things, than in expences of any consequence...year would ease that .man of the scandal of avarice. Some men's wit is like a dark lanthern, which serves their own turn, and guides them their own way... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...more through some niggardliness, or ill grace, in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence. A very few pounds a year would ease that man of the scandal of avarice. The people all running to the capital city, is like a confluence of all the animal spirits to the heart;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 416 pages
...more through some niggardliness, or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence: a very few pounds a year would ease that man of the scandal of avarice. Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn, and guides them their own way ;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 412 pages
...more through some niggardliness, or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence: a very few pounds a year would ease that man of the scandal of avarice. Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn, and guides them their own way ;... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 518 pages
...more through some niggardliness, or ill grace, in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence : a very few pounds a year would ease that man of the scandal of avarice. Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn, and guides them their own way ;... | |
 | English literature - 1827 - 574 pages
...covetousness is what a man generally acquires more through -ome niggardliness or ill-grace, in little and inconsiderable things, than- in expences of any consequence...pounds a year would ease that man of the scandal of niarice. Dependents on great men, as well for the homage that is accepted from them, as the hopes which... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...more through some niggardliness or illgrace, in little and inconsiderable tiiings, than in expenses of any consequence; a very few pounds a year would ease that man of the scandal of avarice. — Pope. , CCCCLXXXVI. Dependents on great men, as well from the homage that is accepted from them,... | |
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The character of covetousness is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness, or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence: a very few pounds a year would ease that man of the scandal of avarice. 
