 | 1794 - Počet stránok 316
...Doncaster, and comes to-day hy the York waggon : for it has always been my mazum, Mr. Carmine, to give my children learning enough ; for, as the old saying...money cannot be employed in so material an article. L. Pen. Nay, the cost is but small;—but poor ten pounds a-year, for head, back, books, bed, and belly... | |
 | 1804 - Počet stránok 630
...Doncaster, and conies to-day by the York waggon : for it has always been my maxura, Mr Carmine, to give my children learning enough ; for, as the old saying...money cannot be employed in so material an article. Laity Pent. Nay, the cost is but small ; but poor ten pounds a-ycar, for head, bark, books, bed, and... | |
 | 1804 - Počet stránok 626
...t lie old saying is, When house and land arc gone and spent, Then learning is most excellent. Cor. Your ladyship is quite right. Too much money cannot...an article. ' Lady Pent. Nay, the cost is but small ; but poor ten pounds a-ycar, for head, back, books, bed, and belly; and they say the children are... | |
 | British drama - 1804 - Počet stránok 630
...has alnnys been my maxum, Mr Carmine, to give my children learning enough ; for, as the old baying is, When house and land are gone and spent, Then learning...excellent. Car. Your ladyship is quite right. Too murh money cannot be employed in so material an article. ¡MI<I/ Pent. Nay, the cost is but small ;... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1811 - Počet stránok 698
...Doncaster, aud comes to-day by the York waggon : for it has always been my maxuro, Mr. Carmine, to give my children learning enough ; for, as the old saying...so material an article. lady Pent. Nay, the cost is hut small; but poor ten pounds a-year, for head, back, books, bed, and belly ; and they say the children... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1812 - Počet stránok 728
...read in their spellingbooks, which were homely, but well calculated to shew the value of experience, " When house and land are gone and spent, " Then learning is most excellent." When experience and reflection shall have tauglvt them the bad effects of injustice, they would, perhaps,... | |
 | William Windham - 1812 - Počet stránok 452
...spelling-books, wh1ch w:re homely, but Well calculated to shew the value of experience, . . • rs " When house and land are gone and spent, " Then learning is most excellent." When experience and reflection shall have taught d1em the bad effects of injustice, they would, perhaps,... | |
 | 1842 - Počet stránok 622
...than " house and land." Quaint as is the old couplet, yet it is very full of significance ; that, " When house and land are gone and spent, Then learning is most excellent." Young Jeremy, when little more than an infant, was put under the care of the master of the grammar-school... | |
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - 1826 - Počet stránok 554
...that owns it ; a truth which is taught to our school-boys, in a homely but yet invaluable distich : ' When house and land are gone and spent, Then learning is most excellent.'" " To apprentice, by aid of premiums, the children of the poor, to crafts by whicli honourable livelihoods... | |
 | Samuel Foote - 1830 - Počet stránok 426
...Doncaster, and conies to-day by the York waggon ; for it has always been my maxim, Mr. Carmine, to give my children learning enough ; for, as the old saying...cannot be employed in so material an article. Lady. Nay, the cost is but small ; but poor ten pounds a year for head, back, books, bed, and belly ; and... | |
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When house and land are gone and spent, Then learning is most excellent. 
