 | English drama - 1794 - 316 pages
...always been my mazum, Mr. Carmine, to give my children learning enough ; for, as the old saying is, When house and land are gone and spent, Then learning is most excellent. Car. Your ladyship is quite right. Too much money cannot be employed in so material an article. L.... | |
 | English drama - 1804 - 630 pages
...always been my maxura, Mr Carmine, to give my children learning enough ; for, as the old saying is, When house and land are gone and spent, Then learning is most excellent. Car. Your ladyship is quite right. Too much money cannot be employed in so material an article. Laity... | |
 | British drama - 1804 - 630 pages
...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 is most excellent. Car. Your ladyship is quite right. Too murh money cannot be employed in so material an article. ¡MI<I/... | |
 | British drama - 1811 - 710 pages
...always been my ninxum. Mr. Carmiiie, to рте my children learning enough ; for, as the old saying is, When house and land are gone and spent, Then learning is most excellent. Car. Your ladyship is quite right. Too much money cannot be employed in so material an article. Lady... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - English drama - 1811 - 698 pages
...always been my maxuro, Mr. Carmine, to give my children learning enough ; for, as the old saying is, When house and land are gone and spent, Then learning is most excellent. Car. Your ladyship is quite right. Too much money cannot be employed in so material an article. lady... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1812 - 728 pages
...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 - Great Britain - 1812 - 452 pages
...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 - 622 pages
...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 - Catholic emancipation - 1826 - 554 pages
...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 - 426 pages
...always been my maxim, Mr. Carmine, to give my children learning enough ; for, as the old saying is— When house and land are gone and spent, Then learning is most excellent. Car. Your ladyship is quite right. Too much money cannot be employed in so material an article. Lady.... | |
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Nevertheless, even these fugitive attempts, from the success which they have had, and the noise they are making, serve to show the truth of the old proverb — ' When house and land are gone and spent, Then learning is most excellent. 
