| Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1901 - 296 pages
...turned again it is seven and threepence, and so on till it becomes a hundred pounds. The more there is of it the more it produces every turning, so that...generation. He that murders a crown destroys all that might have produced even scores of pounds. Remember that six pounds a year is but a groat a day. For... | |
| Edward Everett Hale - Biography - 1902 - 518 pages
...turned again it is seven and threepence, and so on till it becomes a hundred pounds. The more there is of it, the more it produces every turning, so that...of pounds. Remember that six pounds a year is but a groat a day. For this little sum (which may be daily wasted either in time or expense unperceived)... | |
| David Josiah Brewer - English literature - 1902 - 566 pages
...turned again it is seven and threepence ; and so on till it becomes a hundred pounds. The more there is of it, the more it produces every turning, so that...that it might have produced, even scores of pounds. FROISSART, JEAN (France, 1337-1410) The Manners of the Scots. — The Scots are bold, hardy, and much... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1905 - 524 pages
...turned again it is seven and three-pence, and so on till it becomes an hundred pounds. The more there is of it, the more it produces every turning, so that...pounds. Remember, that six pounds a year is but a groat a day. For this little sum (which may be daily wasted either in time or expense unperceived)... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1905 - 396 pages
...hundred pounds. The more there is of it, the more it produces every turning, so that the profit rises quicker and quicker. He that kills a breeding sow...of pounds. Remember that six pounds a year is but a groat a day. For this little sum (which may be daily wasted either in time or expense unperceived)... | |
| Edwin C. Sims - Business & Economics - 1989 - 436 pages
...so on till it becomes a hundred pounds. The more there is of it the more it produces every tuming, so that the profits rise quicker and quicker. He that...generation. He that murders a crown destroys all that might have produced even scores of pounds. Remember that six pounds a year is but a groat a day. For... | |
| Thomas L. Haskell, Richard F. Teichgraeber, III - Business & Economics - 1996 - 564 pages
...money lie in my hands after it is due, he gives me the interest. . . . He that kills a breeding-sow, destroys all her offspring to the thousandth generation....that it might have produced, even scores of pounds. . . . He that loses five shillings, not only loses that sum, but all the advantage that might be made... | |
| John Cunningham Wood - Marxian economics - 1993 - 426 pages
...Money can beget money, and its offsprings can beget more, and so on — He that kills a breeding-sow, destroys all her offspring to the thousandth generation....that it might have produced, even scores of pounds" (Weber, 1967, 48-49.)1 Could it not be that for him the calling is only a means of attaining other... | |
| Jackson Lears - Social Science - 1995 - 416 pages
...turned again it is seven and threepence, and so on, till it becomes a hundred pounds. The more there is of it, the more it produces every turning, so that...sow, destroys all her offspring to the thousandth generation.32 From the goose that laid the golden egg to the breeding sow of Franklin, emblems of abundance... | |
| Mark C. Taylor - Architecture - 1992 - 392 pages
...turned again it is seven and threepence, and so on, till it becomes a hundred pounds. The more there is of it, the more it produces every turning, so that the profits rise quicker and quicker" (SC, 49). How is such profligacy to be controlled? In the financial world, as in the psychic economy,... | |
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