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lavery instead of death; a further step was the exchange of prisoners instead of slavery. Franklin.

ool was his kitchen, though his brains were hot. Dryden. A fat kitchen makes a lean will. Franklin.

te or quality of being lazy. Laziness travels so slowly, that Poverty soon overtakes him. Franklin.

s. "Mad demeanor." Milton. Mad wars destroy in one year the works of many years of peace. Franklin. The mad promise of Cleon was fulfilled. Jowett (Thucyd.).

bor, to maintain his life. Stirling. What maintains one vice would bring up two children. Franklin.

consumed. Lam. iii. 22. It is a duty to communicate of those blessings we have received. Franklin.

His apprehensions of being outlaughed will force him to continue in a restless obscurity. Franklin.

he state of being pestered; vexation; worry. "The trouble and pesterment of children." B. Franklin.

to be niggardly; to be covetous. Gower. The wretch whom avarice bids to pinch and spare. Franklin. To pinch at, to find fault with; to take exception to. [Obs.] Chaucer.

the more public provisions are made for the poor, the less they provide for themselves." Franklin.

obliges parishes to support the poor offers a premium for the encouragement of idleness. Franklin.

k in pride he is able to abase. Dan. iv. 37. Pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt. Franklin.

or money or its equivalent. It is foolish to lay out money in the purchase of repentance. Franklin.

e raised, I ruin all my foes. Milton. The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. Franklin. By the fireside there are old men seated, Seeling ruined cities in the ashes. Longfellow.

to pleasure, ease, and sloth. Milton. Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears. Franklin.

e, -- used for cooking. -- Dry stove. See under Dry. -- Foot stove. See under Foot. -- Franklin stove. See in the Vocabulary. -- Stove plant (Bot.), a plant which requires artificial heat to make it grow in cold or cold temperate climates. -- Stove plate, thin iron castings for the parts of stoves.

are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride, and folly than we are taxed by government. Franklin.

s; as, temperate in eating and drinking. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Franklin.

nt; the morrow."To-morrow is our wedding day." Cowper. One today is worth two to-morrows. Franklin.

. He that rises late must trot all day, and will scarcely overtake his business at night. Franklin.