| John Huddlestone Wynne - 1807 - 744 pages
...waited the opportunity of a free conveyance, not being willing to put you to the expence of,postage. Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves, is a maxim I have always abided by, and I have found my account in it too. Your letter... | |
| John Walter - 1785 - 258 pages
...of the treafury, in the reigns of king William, queen Ann, and king George the Firft, ufed to fay, " Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themfelves „'' This holds equally true as to time ; and I moft earneftly recommend to you the care... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - 1789 - 604 pages
...have heard, no doubt, '* often of ,a maxim of trade, which I heard of early in life ; " it was this : Take care of the pence, and the pounds will " take care of themfelves." The meaning, his Lord:fhip added, he conceived was, take care of fmall things, and they... | |
| Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1801 - 474 pages
...of the treafury, in the reigns of king William, queen Anne, and king George theFirft> uied to fay, " Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themfelves." To this maxim, whieh he not only preached, but pra&ifed, his two grandfom, at this time,... | |
| 1850 - 376 pages
...WINDOW GARDENING. LITTLE MATTERS. — There is an old adage which some of us are apt to forget — " take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves." The aphorism inculcates neither close-fisted parsimony nor mean stinginess, but prudent... | |
| Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott - 1803 - 440 pages
...laudable defire in people of property to watch over little things, and to Tefine upon the fage maxim, *' Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themfelves." It will alfo {hew that the prefent age is defirous of cultivating the true virtuafo tafle,... | |
| Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott - 1805 - 418 pages
...moral government we might very profitably follow a dire&ion given us with refpect to money matters : " Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themielves." I am perfnaded, that if we could guard againft little foibles, whims, and unevennefs of... | |
| 1806 - 924 pages
...the reader is not pleased with the portrait, the paiuler ь in fault." ' It is a vulgar apophthegm, ' take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves:' it may be applied in politics, ' take care of the poor, the rich wi|l take of themselyes.'... | |
| 1856 - 766 pages
...whole life should be the aggregate of well-spent days, hours, and minutes. And here, the old proverb, " take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves," applies itself to the Christian's conduct. Let him look well to his hours, and he will... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 436 pages
...than of great ; and I suspect this proceeds from too implicit a reliance on the antient precept, " take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves." Though this may be the case in general, there are so many exceptions to the rule, that... | |
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