 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1793 - 324 pages
...fees you at a billiard table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you fhould be at work, he fends for his money the next day ; demands it before he can receive it in a lump. It mews, befides, that you are mindful of what you owe ; it makes you appear a careful, as well as an... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1802 - 348 pages
...fees you at a billiard table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you fhould be at work, he fends for his money the next day ; demands it before he can receive it in a lump. IT fhews, befides, that you are mindful of what you owe ; it makes you appear a careful, as well as honeft... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1820 - 72 pages
...night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer. But, if he sees you at a billiard table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day. Finer clothes than he or his wife wears, or greater expence in any particular than he affords himself,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American literature - 1804 - 78 pages
...nii;ht, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer : but if he sees you at the billiard table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be...demands it, before he can receive it, in a lump. It shews, besides, that you are mindful of what you owe ; it makes you appear a careful, as well as an... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1806 - 586 pages
...night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer : but if he sees you at a billiard-table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be...next day; demands it before he can receive it in a Jump. It shows, besides, that you are mindful of what you owe,; it makes you appear a careful as well... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American literature - 1806 - 590 pages
...months longer: but if he sees you at a billiard-table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you ^hould be at work, he sends for his money the next day ;...a lump. It shows, besides, that you are mindful of what you owe ; it makes you appear a careful as well as an honest man, and that still increases your... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1807 - 310 pages
...night, heard by a creditor makes him easy six months longer ; but if he sees you at a billiard table, or hears your -voice at a tavern when you should be...demands it before he can receive it in a lump. It shews, besides, that you are mindful of what you »we ; it makes you appear a careful- as well as an... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American essays - 1811 - 196 pages
...night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer ; but if he sees you at a billiardtable, or hears your voice at a tavern when you should be...demands it before he can receive it in a lump. It shews, besides, that you are mindful of what you owe ; it makes you appear a careful, as well as an... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American essays - 1811 - 190 pages
...night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer ; but if he sees you at a billiardtable, or hears your voice at a tavern when you should be...demands it before he can receive it in a lump. It shews, besides, that you are mindful of what you owe ; it makes you appear a careful, as well as an... | |
 | Caleb Bingham - Readers - 1811 - 264 pages
...fees you at a billiard table, or hears your Voicj at a tavern, when you fhould be at work, he fends for his money the next day ; demands it before he can receive it in a lump. 9. It fhows, beiides, that you are mindful of what you owe; it makes you appear a careful, as well... | |
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The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or nine at night... 
