 | George Windsor Earl - 1837 - 496 페이지
...that I have met with were far inferior to the Javanese, both in seamanship and steadiness. This may be accounted for by the fact, that the latter being from...advance money to the seamen when they have disposed of GHAUT SERANGS. 6 1 their wages, and consequently obtain an influence over their future proceedings.... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1860 - 606 페이지
...questions, and in that England, by some fatality, always comes oft' second-best. It is said of our sailors that they earn their money like horses and spend it like asses; in the same way it may be asserted of us, as a nation, that we win advantages in the field and throw... | |
 | William Harrison ainsworth - 1860 - 516 페이지
...questions, and in that England, by some fatality, always comes oil' second best. It is said of our sailors that they earn their money like horses and spend it like asses : in the same way it may be asserted of us, as a nation, that we win advantages in the field and throw... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1891 - 168 페이지
...industry always begets a love of gain. It is said of the hard worked miners in the Welsh collieries that they earn their money like horses and spend it like asses. 301. hence, consequently. good, benefits, good results. ills, evil results. 302. superfluous, more... | |
 | Sir Henry John Newbolt - 1919 - 406 페이지
...fight to the last drop in them they are both tough and hardy with constitutions like horses. It is true that they earn their money like horses and spend it like asses. Give my Love to My Father My Brothers and Sisters and all my Good friends, I have not time to say more... | |
 | 1860 - 774 페이지
...European questions, aud in that England, by some fatality, always comes off second best. It is said of our sailors that they earn their money like horses and spend it like asses : in the same way it may be asserted of us, as a nation, that we win advantages in the field and throw... | |
 | 1843 - 1350 페이지
...are we doing for their religious instruction or moral improvement ? Is not the old <4age still true, that they " earn their money like horses, and spend it like asses," In the merchant service we want men like beasts of burden to fetch and carry. They must import and... | |
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It is said of our sailors that they earn their money like horses and spend it like asses : in the same way it may be asserted of us, as a nation, that we win advantages in the field and throw them away in the council-chamber. 