 And yet God deliver us from pinching poverty, and grant that, having a competency, we may be content and thankful ! Let us not repine, or so much as think the gifts of God unequally dealt, if we see another abound with riches, when, as God knows, the...  The Compleat Angler - Page 211by Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1863 - 304 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Izaak Walton, Sir John Hawkins, John Hawkins - Fishing - 1822 - 494 pages
...•and thankful. Let not us repine, or so much as think the gifts of God unequally dealt, if we see another abound with riches ; when, as God knows, the...consider him to be like the silk-worm, that, when she seems to play, is, at the very same time, spinning her own bowels, and consuming herself; and this... | |
 | Richard Dagley - Death - 1828 - 562 pages
...rich men cannot purchase with all their money." Tyro. And if I remember rightly, he further saith, " We see but the outside of the rich man's happiness:...few consider him to be like the silkworm, that, when she seems to play, is, at the very same time, spinning her own bowels, and consuming herself." Socius.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...with ricbes, when, as God knows, the cures that are the keys that keep those riches hang ofti'ii ^o +iO Y U Y R B+* 6-*.* V R VlYmYnYoY VvL Y5SkWlW d:iys and restless nichts, even when others Bleep quietly. We see but the outside of the rich man's... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1833 - 380 pages
...content and thankful ! Let not us repine, or so much as think the gifts of God unequally dealt, if we see another abound with riches ; when, as God knows, the...rich man's happiness: few consider him to be like the silk- worm, that, when she seems to play, is, at the very same time, spinning her own bowels, and consuming... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1833 - 350 pages
...the gifts of God unetnially dealt, if we see another abound with riches ; when, asT7od~knows, tlie cares that are the keys that keep those riches, hang...consider him to be like the silk-worm, that, when she seems to play, is, at the very same time, spinning her own bowels, and consuming herself ; * and... | |
 | 1834 - 536 pages
...when, as God knows, the cares that arc thy keys that keep those riches, hang often so heavily at tho rich man's girdle, that they clog him with weary days and restless nights, when others sleep quietly. Lot us, therefore, be thankful for health and competence, and, above all,... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1835 - 348 pages
...content and thankful ! Let not us repine, or so much as think the gifts of God unequally dealt, if we see another abound with riches ; when, as God knows, the...nights, even when others sleep quietly. We see but tie outsiJe of the rich man's happiness i few consider him to be like the silk-worm, that, when she... | |
 | Izaak Walton - Fishing - 1836 - 358 pages
...content and thankful ! Let not us repine, or so much as think the gifts of God unequally dealt, if we see another abound with riches ; when, as God knows, the cares that are the keys that keep those riches, wng often so heavily at the rich man's girdle, that they clog him with weary days and restless nights,... | |
 | Saturday magazine - 1840 - 1078 pages
...content and thankful. Let us] not repine, or so much as think the gifts of God unequally dealt, if we see another abound with riches, when, ^as God knows, the...they clog him with weary days and restless nights, when others sleep quietly. Let us, therefore, be thankful for health and competence, and, above all,... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1842 - 532 pages
...content and thankful. Let not us repine, or so much as think the gifts of God unequally dealt, if we see another abound with riches ; when, as God knows, the...consider him to be like the silk-worm, that, when she seems to play, is, at the very same time, spinning her own bowels, and consuming herself; and this... | |
| |
