 | James Boswell - 1889 - 540 pages
...239. India, ten thousand pounds in England, better than twenty thousand in, iii. 389. Indies, " He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him," iii. 306. Indolence, resolution to struggle against, i. 43 ; " voluntary debility," iv. 262. Inebriation.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 570 pages
...239. India, ten thousand pounds in England, better lhan twenty thousand in, iii. 389. Indies, " He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him," iii. 206. Indolence, resolution to struggle against. i. 43 ; " voluntary debility," iv. 262. Inebriation.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 pages
...observe ; his power of contrasting one mode of life with another. As the Spanish proverb says, ' He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry...wealth of the Indies with him.' So it is in travelling : aman must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge." BOSWELL : " The proverb, I... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1891 - 296 pages
...will find, almost universally, that the 1 ' Dr. Johnson said : As the Spanish proverb says, " He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry...the Indies with him." So it is in travelling ; a man most carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.' — Boswell's Life of Johnson, iii.... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1891 - 1190 pages
...Chap. i>. ms. As the Spanish proverh says, " He who wonld hring home the wealth of the Indies mnst carry the wealth of the Indies with him," so it is in travelling, — a man mnst carry knowledge with him if he wonld hring home knowledge. Chap. c. ms. The trne, strong, and... | |
 | GEORGE BIRKBECK HILL - 1892 - 418 pages
...us, it must be with a mind not unstored with knowledge that we wander through the streets. " He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him." But whatever impulses can be given to the imagination by the full and varied life of old London, how... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1892 - 220 pages
...us, it must be with a mind not unstored with knowledge that we wander through the streets. " He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him." But whatever impulses can be given to the imagination by the full and varied life of old London, how... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1892 - 656 pages
...needs a strong head to bear that diet. One must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says, " He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies." There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 616 pages
...libraries when they wrote these books. . . . One must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says, 'He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry out the wealth of the Indies.' . . . When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1892 - 278 pages
...enjoys much ; the careless and the foolish see little and enjoy little. There is an old proverb, " He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry out the wealth of the Indies." All things are yours on condition that you know how to use them. The... | |
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He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies. 
