 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 Spectator - Page 871726 - 312 pagesFull view - About this book
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 pages
...Disburse seems to stand here for reimburse. ' The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of living in a little time much...The man who lives by hope, will die by hunger.' It should be an indispensable rule in life to contract our desires to our present condition, and, whatever... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 292 pages
...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...runs, The man who lives by hope will die by hunger. It should be an indispensable rule in life, to contract our desires to our present condition, and whatever... | |
 | William Hone - Calendars - 1827 - 858 pages
...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...runs, the man who lives by hope will die by hunger. It should be an indispensable rule in life, to contract our desires to our present condition, and whatever... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...merit all objections fly. Churchill. DCXXXIL 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 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
...merit all objections fly. Churchill. DCXXXII. 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 says, "The man who lives by hope will die by danger."— '-Jlddison. Dcxxxm. As Rochefoucault his maxims... | |
 | 1836 - 932 pages
...ostentation, and generally ends in beggary and ruin. ' The man who will live above his present circumstances, the farther end of a room, who can now discharge a fan in such should be an indispensable rule in life, to contract our desires to our present condition, and, whatever... | |
 | Joseph Addison - Bookbinding - 1837 - 480 pages
...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. ' It should be an indispensable rule in life, to contract our desires to our present condition, and, whatever... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 pages
...win live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of living in a little time much oeneath forming a remove from one place to an other. I should be a cure for the unnatura desire of J should be an indispensable rule in life, to contract our desires to our present condition, and, whatever... | |
 | 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.)... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 558 pages
...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...The man who lives by hope, will die by hunger. It should be an indispensable rule in life, to contract our desires to our present condition, and whatever... | |
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