 Frugality, and even avarice, in the lower orders of mankind, are true ambition. These afford the only ladder for the poor to rise to preferment. Teach, then, my dear sir, to your son thrift and economy. Let his poor wandering uncle's example be placed...  The life of Oliver Goldsmith - Page 96by sir James Prior - 1837Full view - About this book
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 304 pages
...may distress, but cannot relieve him. Frugality, and even avarice, in the lower orders of mankind, are true ambition. These afford the only ladder for...wandering uncle's example be placed before his eyes. I had learned from books to be disinterested and generous, before I was taught from experience the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 438 pages
...; may distress, but cannot relieve him. Frugality, and even avarice, inthe lower orders of mankind, are true ambition. These afford the only ladder for...wandering uncle's example be placed before his eyes. I had learned from books to be disinterested and generous, before I was taught from experience the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1817 - 192 pages
...greatest merit in a state of poverty would only serve to make the possessor ridiculous," he adds : — "Teach then, my dear sir, to your son, thrift and...wandering uncle's example be placed before his eyes. I had learned from books to be disinterested and generous, before I was taught from experience the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 440 pages
...may distress, but cannot relieve him. Frugality, and even avarice, in the lower orders of mankind, are true ambition. These afford the only ladder for...wandering uncle's example be placed before his eyes. I had learned from books to be disinterested and generous, before I was taught from experience the... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1837 - 550 pages
...generosity ; none could read more impressive lessons on prudence, or practise them less even against his own conviction. " Frugality, and even avarice, in the...or without humanity, who live only to accumulate, arid to this passion sacrifice every other happiness. They have been described as madmen, who, in the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 614 pages
...with his generosity : none could read more impressive lessons on prudence, or practise them less. " Frugality, and even avarice, in the lower orders of...wandering uncle's example be placed before his eyes." — See Life, ch. iv. 1 laws of society can oblige us. This I allow is sometimes import of the word,... | |
 | 1837 - 536 pages
...ridiculous—may distress, but cannot relieve dim. Frugality, and even avarice, in the lower orders of mankind, are true ambition. These afford the only ladder for...wandering uncle's example be placed before his eyes. I had learned from books to be disinterested and generous, before I was taught from experience the... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1837 - 550 pages
...may distress but cannot relieve him.* Frugality, and even avarice, in the lower orders of mankind, are true ambition. These afford the only ladder for...wandering uncle's example be placed before his eyes. I had learned from books to be disinterested and generous, before I was taught from experience the... | |
 | 1837 - 552 pages
...ridiculous—may distress, but cannot relieve him. Frugality, and even avarice, in the lower orders of mankind, are true ambition. These afford the only ladder for...wandering uncle's example be placed before his eyes. I had learned from books to be disinterested and generous, before I was taught from experience the... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1837 - 558 pages
...may distress but cannot relieve him.* Frugality, and even avarice, in the lower orders of mankind, are true ambition. These afford the only ladder for...wandering uncle's example be placed before his eyes. I had learned from books to be disinterested and generous, before I was taught from experience the... | |
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