 | 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... | |
 | Howard L. Green - History - 1995 - 320 pages
...property. .. . They care for little, because they want but little.... 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,... | |
 | David Turley - Religion - 1998 - 480 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, fishing,... | |
 | Martin Daunton, Rick Halpern - History - 1999 - 422 pages
...To him these descendants of the Jews who "believed in God and immortality" had few wants. They were "not disquieted with bills of lading and exchange, nor perplexed with chancery suits and exchequer reckoning", but they were "exact observers of property", and their land must be purchased,... | |
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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... 
