 The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of living in a little time much beneath them ; or, as the Italian proverb runs, The Man who lives by Hope will die by Hunger.  The British Essayists: Spectator - Page 79edited by - 1823Full view - About this book
 | Spectator The - 1811 - 802 pages
...grandeur, senseless ostentation, and generally ends in beggary and ruin. The man, who will live above hie present circumstances, is in great danger of living...who lives by hope, will die by hunger.' It should be on indispensable rule in life, to contract our desires to our present condition; and, whatever may... | |
 | George Fulton - English language - 1814 - 452 pages
...a child with devo'tion ; which seldom dies in a mind that ha» received an early tincture of it." " It should be an indispensable rule in life — to...live within the compass of what we actually possess." III. In a commencing series, every member has the falling inflexion except the last ; and in a concluding... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 316 pages
...ostentation, and generally ends in beggary and ruin. * Disburse seems to stand here for reimburse. The man who will live above his present circumstances,...hunger.' It should be an indispensable rule in life, to conIract our desires to our present condition, and, whatever may be our expectations, to live within... | |
 | William Driverger - 1820 - 648 pages
...of which he was possessed. Death only closes a man's reputation, and determines it as good or bad. It should be an indispensable rule in life to contract...to our present condition, and whatever may be our expectation, to live within the compass of. what we actually possess. An English peer who has not been... | |
 | George Fulton - English language - 1826 - 456 pages
...dies in a mind that has received an early tincture of it" " It should be an indispensable rule of lift to contract our desires to our pres'ent condition;...live within the compass of what we actually possess." a concluding series, every member has the falling inflexion except the last but one; ; and this may... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...Springs into sense, and every action's thought; Before such merit all objections fly. Churchill. DCXXXIL The man, who will live above his present circumstances...time much beneath them, or, as the Italian proverb says, "The man who lives by hope will die by danger."— -Addison. Dcxxxm. As Rochefoucault his maxims... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...Springs into sense, and every action's thought; Before such merit all objections fly. Churchill. DCXXXII. The man, who will live above his present circumstances...time much beneath them, or, as the Italian proverb says, "The man who lives by hope will die by danger."— '-Jlddison. Dcxxxm. As Rochefoucault his maxims... | |
 | Joseph Addison - Bookbinding - 1837 - 480 pages
...romantic generosity, chimerical grandeur, senseless ostentation, and generally ends in beggary and ruin. ' The man who will live above his present circumstances,...is in great danger of living in a little time much oeneath them;' or, as the Italian proverb runs, ' The man who lives by hope, will die by hunger. '... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 pages
...chimerical grandeur, senseless ostentation, and generally ends in beggary and ruin. ' The man who win than this rust of the mind, which gives a tincture of its nature oeneath them;' or, as the Italian proverb runs, ' The man who lives by hope, will die by hunger.' It... | |
 | 1850 - 694 pages
...fresh lemon-juice. Л SALUTARY CAUTION. THE man who will live above his present circumstances, is in danger of living in a little time much beneath them, or, as the Italian proverb runs, " The man wBo lives by hope will die by hunger." PHARMACOLOGY. No. XXIII. TONICS.— ( Continued from page 54.)... | |
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