 | Robert Burton - 1800 - 616 pages
...(dispoits exceptcd, which are all their business), what to do, or otherwise how to bestow themselves : like our modern Frenchmen, that had rather lose a pound of blood in a single combate, then a drop of sweat in any honest labour. Every man almost hath something or other to employ... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1804 - 622 pages
...(disports excepted, which are all their business), what to do, or otherwise how to bestow themselves ; like our modern Frenchmen, that had rather lose a pound of blood in a single combate, than a drop of sweat in any honest labour. Every man almost hath something or other to employ... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1806 - 626 pages
...(disports excepted, which are all their business), what to do, or otherwise how to bestow themselves; like our modern Frenchmen, that had rather lose a...combat, than a drop of sweat in any honest labour. Every man- almost hath something or other to employ himself about, some vocation, some trade: but they... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1821 - 612 pages
...(disports excepted, which are all their business), what to do, or otherwise how to bestow themselves ; like our modern Frenchmen, that had rather lose a pound of blood in a single combate, than a drop of sweat in any honest labour. Every man almost hath something or other to employ... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1826 - 608 pages
...(disports excepted, which are all their business), what to do, or otherwise how to bestow themselves ; like our modern Frenchmen, that had rather lose a pound of blood in a single combate, -than a drop of sweat in any honest labour. Every man almost hath something or other to employ... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1838 - 762 pages
...(disports excepted, which are all their business^, what to do, or otherwise how to bestow themselves ; like our modern Frenchmen, that had rather lose a pound of blood in a single combate, than a drop of sweat in any honest labour. Every man almost hath something or other to employ... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1850 - 728 pages
...(disports excepted, which are all their business), what to do, or otherwise how to bestow themselves : gulis, Every man almost hath something or other to employ himself about, some vocation, some trade, but they... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 656 pages
...ones. Burton, in his 'Anatomy of Melancholy,' has a bitter satire against the nobility, when he says, they are " like our modern Frenchmen, that had rather...combat, than a drop of sweat in any honest labour." " SCENE IV. — " Wlutt counterfeit did I give you? The slip, sir, the slip." A counterfeit piece of... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1859 - 480 pages
...(disports excepted, which are all their business), what to do, or otherwise how to bestow themselves; like our modern Frenchmen, that had rather lose a...combat, than a drop of sweat in any honest labour. Every man almost hath something or other to employ himself about, some vocation, some trade, but they... | |
 | Edward Livingston Youmans - 1867 - 490 pages
...and organize, and pay its. forces, and to guide their march. Any mistake on his part must be widely injurious. The wise employment of capital is a most...economically considered, involve increased responsibility, it calls.the more loudly for enlightenment and guidance. Again, on the side of expenditure, or consumption,... | |
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They know not how to spend their time (disports excepted, which are all their business), what to do, or otherwise how to bestow themselves ; like our modern Frenchmen, that had rather lose a pound of blood in a single combat, than a drop of sweat in any... 
