 | Benjamin Franklin - 1844 - 600 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 ; demands it, before he can receive it, in a lump. It shows, besides, that you are mindful of what... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 pages
...at 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 ; demands it before he can receive it in a lump. It shows, besides, that you are mindful of what you... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1846 - 296 pages
...at 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 ; demands it before he can receive it in a lump. It shows, besides, that you are mindful of what you... | |
 | Cuthbert William Johnson - 1846 - 178 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, and demands it perhaps before you are prepared to pay him. Beware of thinking all your own that you... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 320 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 ; demands it before he can receive it in a lump. It shows, besides, that you are mindful of what you... | |
 | M.E.T. - 1848 - 300 pages
...six months longer ; but if he sees you at a billiard-table, or héars your voice at a tavern, whén you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day, and demands it before it is convenient for you to pay him. Bavare of thinking all your own that you... | |
 | John Stanley (printer.) - 1849 - 178 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 eends for his money next day, demands it before he can receive it in a lump. "It shows besides that... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - 1851 - 518 pages
...at night, heard by a creditor makes him easy 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, and demands it before it is convenient for you to pay him. is known to pay punctually and exactly to... | |
 | Charles Simmons - 1852 - 564 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. Ed. Persevering usefulness is an infinitely better guardian of reputation, than personal anxiety about... | |
 | C. Gough - 1853 - 428 pages
...nine at 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, a greater expence in any particular, than he affords himself,... | |
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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... 
