 | Albert Cook Myers - Delaware - 1912 - 512 pages
...They care for little, because they want but little; and the Reason is, a little contents them: In this they are sufficiently revenged on us; if they are...with Bills of Lading and Exchange, nor perplexed with Chancery-Suits and ExchequerReckonings. We sweat and toil to live; their pleasure feeds them, I mean,... | |
 | Charles Franklin Warwick - Pennsylvania - 1913 - 454 pages
...care for little ; because they want but little ; and the reason is, a little contents them. In this they are sufficiently revenged on us: if they are...disquieted with bills of lading and exchange, nor preplexed with chancery suits, and exchequer reckonings. We sweat and toil to live, their pleasure... | |
 | National Society of the Colonial Dames of America. Pennsylvania - Forging industry - 1914 - 330 pages
...They care for little because they want but little ; and the reason is, a little contents them. In this they are sufficiently revenged on us; if they are...pains. They are not disquieted with bills of lading or exchange, nor perplexed with chancery suits or exchequer reckonings. We sweat and toil to live;... | |
 | Rupert Sargent Holland - 1915 - 206 pages
...care for little, because they want but little : and the reason is, a little contents them. In this they are sufficiently revenged on us. If they are...and exchange, nor perplexed with Chancery suits and Exchequer reckonings. We sweat and toil to live. Their pleasure feeds them ; I mean their hunting,... | |
 | John Thomson Faris - Transportation - 1916 - 328 pages
...care for little, because they want but little ; and the Reason is, a little contents them : In this they are sufficiently revenged on us ; if they are...our Pleasures, they are also free from our Pains. Concerning a council for treaty-making, Penn wrote : Their Order is thus : The King sits in the middle... | |
 | William Penn - History - 1970 - 100 pages
...They care for little, because they want but little; and the Reason is, a little contents them: In this they are sufficiently revenged on us; if they are...with Bills of Lading and Exchange, nor perplexed with Chancery-Suits and Exchequer-Reckonings. We sweat and toil to live; their pleasure feeds them, I mean,... | |
 | Jean R. Soderlund - History - 1983 - 436 pages
...They care for little because they want but little; and the reason is, a little contents them. In this they are sufficiently revenged on us; if they are...and exchange, nor perplexed with chancery suits and exchequer reckonings. We sweat and toil to live; their pleasure feeds them, I mean, their hunting,... | |
 | Gaile McGregor - Social Science - 1988 - 372 pages
...perpetually; they never have much, nor want much... and the Reason is, a little contents them: In this they are sufficiently revenged on us; if they are...our Pleasures, they are also free from our Pains. The echo of Montaigne is quite noticeable here, overlaid with a mildly affectionate, almost paternal,... | |
 | Gaile McGregor - Social Science - 1988 - 372 pages
...perpetually; they never have much, nor want much...and the Reason is, a little contents them: In this they are sufficiently revenged on us; if they are...our Pleasures, they are also free from our Pains. The echo of Montaigne is quite noticeable here, overlaid with a mildly affectionate, almost paternal,... | |
 | Wayne Franklin - History - 1989 - 328 pages
...("They care for little, because they want but little; and the Reason is, a little contents them: In this they are sufficiently revenged on us; if they are ignorant of our Pleasures, they are also free from our'Pains" [233]), he sees in them a threat to English continence, a possible loosening of the settler's... | |
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They care for little, because they want but little ; and the reason is, a little contents them. In this they are sufficiently revenged on us. If they are ignorant of our pleasures, they are also free from our pains. They are not disquieted with bills... 
