 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 - 1857 - 780 pages
...grandeur, senseless ostentation, and generally ends in beggary and ruin. The man who will live above bis present circumstances is in great danger of living...much beneath them ; or, as the Italian proverb runs, hunger." It should be an indispensable rule in life, to contract our desires to our present condition,... | |
 | John Warner Barber - Christian life - 1857 - 274 pages
...; if it come, you are the more gently disposed and the more firmly prepared. It is a necessary, and should be an indispensable rule in life, to contract our desires to our circumstances, and whatever expectations we may have, to live within the compass of what we actually... | |
 | Joseph Catafago - Arabic language - 1858 - 368 pages
...continuance, punishments ought to be contrived with a view to the conquering of this disposition. 5. It should be an indispensable rule in life to contract...live within the compass of what we actually possess. 6. By forbearing to do what may innocently be done, we may hourly add new vigour to resolution ; and... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...romantic generosity, chimerical grandeur, senseless ostentation, and generally ends in beggary and ruin. The man who will live above his present circumstances,...them, or as the Italian proverb runs — " The Man who » In all wordly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness and intention of mind imaginable,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1870 - 610 pages
...romantic generosity, chimerical grandeur, senseless ostentation, and generally ends in beggary and ruin. The man who will live above his present circumstances,...to our present condition ; and whatever may be our expec tations, to live within the compass of. what we actually possess. It will be time enough to enjoy... | |
 | Almanacs, American - 1881 - 946 pages
...patience who has none of his own. and gray eyes being near-sighted, and it per cent, of black and brown. THE man who will live above his present circumstances is in great danger of living in a liulc LAST winter the French iron-clad L'Armide time much beneath them. passed through a phosphorescent... | |
 | Henry Sampson - Advertising - 1874 - 688 pages
...romantic generosity, chimerical grandeur, senseless ostentation, and generally ends in beggary and ruin. The man who will live above his present circumstances,...proverb runs, ' the man who lives by hope will die by hunger.1 It should be an indispensable rule in life to contract our desires to our present condition,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...Cornwall, and to give balls in St. James's Square. LORD MACAULAY : Warren Hastings, Oct. 1841. ECONOMY. The man who will live above his present circumstances...danger of living, in a little time, much beneath them. ADDISON. Certainly, if a man will keep but of even hand, his ordinary expenses ought to be but to the... | |
 | Maxims - 1876 - 340 pages
...If it come, you are the more gently disposed, and the more firmly prepared. It is a necessary, and should be an indispensable rule in life, to contract our desires to our circumstances, and whatever expectations we may have, to live within the compass of what we actually... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...Cornwall, and to give balls in St. James's Square. LORD MACAUI.AY : Warren Hastings, Oct. 1841. ECONOMY. which reason prescribes, or society ADDISON. Certainly, if a man will keep but of even hand, his ordinary expenses ought to be but to the... | |
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