 | Books - 1881 - 530 pages
...manliness. Wealth we employ, not only for talk and ostentation, but when there is a real use for it. To avow poverty with us is no disgrace ; the true...neglect the state because he takes care of his own household ; and even those of us who are engaged in business have a very fair idea of politics. We... | |
 | Thucydides - Greece - 1881 - 752 pages
...of manliness. Wealth we employ, not for talk and ostentation, but when there is a real use for it. To avow poverty with us is no disgrace ; the true...neglect the state because he takes care of his own household; and even those of us who are engaged in business have a very fair idea of politics. We alone... | |
 | William Pittenger - Elocution - 1883 - 294 pages
...of manliness. Wealth we employ, not for talk and ostentation, but when there is a real use for it. To avow poverty with us is no disgrace; the true disgrace...neglect the State because he takes care of his own household ; and even those of us who are engaged in business have a very fair idea of politics. We... | |
 | Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 392 pages
...of manliness. Wealth we employ, not for talk and ostentation, but when there is a real use for it. To avow poverty with us is no disgrace ; the true...neglect the State because he takes care of his own household ; and even those of us who are engaged in business have a very fair idea of politics. We... | |
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - Greek literature - 1884 - 328 pages
...of manliness. Wealth we employ, not for talk and ostentation, but when there is a real use for it. To avow poverty with us is no disgrace: the true disgrace...neglect the state because he takes care of his own household ; and even those of us who are engaged in business have a veiy fair idea of politics. We... | |
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - Greek literature - 1884 - 350 pages
...of manliness. Wealth we employ, not for talk and ostentation, but when there is a real use for it. To avow poverty with us is no disgrace: the true disgrace...neglect the state because he takes care of his own household ; and even those of us who are engaged in business have a very fair idea of politics. We... | |
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - Greek literature - 1884 - 348 pages
...of manliness. Wealth we employ, not for talk and ostentation, but when there is a real use for it. To avow poverty with us is no disgrace: the true disgrace...neglect the state because he takes care of his own household ; and even those of us who are engaged in business have a very fair idea of politics. We... | |
 | George Park Fisher - World history - 1885 - 786 pages
...loss of manliness. Wealth we employ, not for talk and ostentation, but when there is real use for it To avow poverty with us is no disgrace: the true disgrace...neglect the State because he takes care of his own household, and even those of us who are engaged in business have a very fair idea of politics. We alone... | |
 | Mary Sheldon Barnes - 1885 - 612 pages
...of manliness. Wealth we employ, not for talk and ostentation, but when there is a real use for it. To avow poverty with us is no disgrace ; the true...neglect the state because he takes care of his own household; and even those of us who are engaged in business have a very fair idea of politics. We aloue... | |
 | George Park Fisher - World history - 1885 - 810 pages
...loss of manliness. Wealth we employ, not for talk and ostentation, but when there is real use for it. To avow poverty with us is no disgrace: the true disgrace...neglect the State because he takes care of his own household, and even those of us who are engaged in business have a very fair idea of politics. We alone... | |
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To avow poverty with us is no disgrace ; the true disgrace is in doing nothing to avoid it. An Athenian citizen does not neglect the State because he takes care of his own 
