 | James Herring, James Barton Longacre - 1835 - 430 páginas
...business, folding and stitching pamphlets, tending shop, purchasing old linen rags for the paper-makers, &c. We kept no idle servants, our table was plain...breakfast was for a long time bread and milk, (no tea) and I ate it out of a two-penny porringer, with a pewter spoon ; but mark how luxury will enter... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 páginas
...King of Denmark, to dinner. We have an English proverb that says, "He that would thrive, must ask his wife." It was lucky for me that I had one as much...pamphlets, tending shop, purchasing old linen rags for the paper-makers, &,c. We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and simple, our furniture of the cheapest.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 668 páginas
...King of Denmark, to dinner. We have an English proverb that says, "He that would thrive, must ask his wife." It was lucky for me that I had one as much...pamphlets, tending shop, purchasing old linen rags for the paper-makers, &,c. We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and simple, our furniture of the cheapest.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 664 páginas
...business, folding and stitching pamphlets, tending shop, purchasing old linen rags for the paper-makers, &c. We kept no idle servants, our table was plain...my breakfast was for a long time bread and milk (no tea), and I ate it out of a two penny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon. But mark how luxury will... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1848 - 676 páginas
...King of Denmark, to dinner. We have an English proverb that says, "He that would thrive, must ask his wife." It was lucky for me that I had one as much...pamphlets, tending shop, purchasing old linen rags for the paper-makers, &c. We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and simple, our furniture of the cheapest.... | |
 | John Stanley (printer.) - 1849 - 178 páginas
...entertaining anecdote. " We have an English proverb that says, ' he that would thrive, must ask hie wife.' It was lucky for me that I had one as much...stitching pamphlets, tending shop, purchasing old linen rag» for the paper-makers, &c. We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and simple, our furniture... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 522 páginas
...King of Denmark, to dinner.* We have an English proverb that says, " He that would thrive must ask his wife." It was lucky for me that I had one as much...pamphlets, tending shop, purchasing old linen rags for the papermakers, &c. We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and simple, our furniture of the cheapest.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 páginas
...king of Denmark, to dinner. We have an English proverb that says, " He that would thrive, must ask his wife." It was lucky for me that I had one as much...was plain and simple, our furniture of the cheapest. 1 or instance, my breakfast was, for a long time, bread and milk, (no tea,) and I ate it out of a two... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 522 páginas
...proverb that says, •' He that would ,/ thrive must ask his wife." It was lucky for me that I had one K as much disposed to industry and frugality as myself....pamphlets, tending shop, purchasing old linen rags for the papermakers, &c. We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and simple, our furniture of the cheapest.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1856 - 654 páginas
...King of Denmark, to dinner. We have an English proverb that says, "He that would thrive, must ask his wife" It was lucky for me that I had one as much disposed...pamphlets, tending shop, purchasing old linen rags for the paper-makers, &,c. We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and simple, our furniture of the cheapest.... | |
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For instance, my breakfast was a long time bread and milk (no tea), and I ate it out of a twopenny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon. 
