 | Benjamin Franklin - 1899 - 204 páginas
...says, " He that would thrive, must ask his wife." It was lucky for me that I had one as much dispos'd to industry and frugality as myself. She assisted...pamphlets, tending shop, purchasing old linen rags for the paper-makers, etc., etc. We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and simple, our furniture of... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - 1899 - 554 páginas
...says, ' He that would thrive, must ask his wife.' It was lucky for me that I had one as much dispos'd to industry and frugality as myself. She assisted...pamphlets, tending shop, purchasing old linen rags for the paper-makers, etc., etc. We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and simple, our furniture of... | |
 | William Peterfield Trent, Benjamin Willis Wells - 1901 - 362 páginas
...THE DOMESTIC FRANKLIN. / 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...shop, purchasing old linen rags for the paper makers, etc. We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and simple, our furniture of the cheapest. For instance,... | |
 | 1901 - 502 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...shop, purchasing old linen rags for the paper makers, etc., etc. We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and simple, our furniture of the cheapest.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1901 - 296 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, 8tc. We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and simple, our furniture of the cheapest.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1905 - 238 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...shop, purchasing old linen rags for the paper makers, etc., etc. We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and simple, our furniture of the cheapest.... | |
 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1910 - 330 páginas
...Putnam's Sons Publishers) 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, etc., etc. We kept no idle servants; our table was plain and simple, our furniture of... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1905 - 354 páginas
...says, " He that would thrive, must ask his wife." It was lucky for me that I had one as much dispos'd to industry and frugality as myself. She assisted...pamphlets, tending shop, purchasing old linen rags for the papermakers, etc., etc. We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and simple, our furniture of... | |
 | Franklin Bi-centennial Joint Committee (Boston, Mass.) - 1906 - 132 páginas
...THE HELPFULNESS OF HIS WIFE 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...shop, purchasing old linen rags for the paper makers, etc., etc. We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and simple, our furniture of the cheapest.... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1906 - 124 páginas
...THE HELPFULNESS OF HIS WIFE 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...shop, purchasing old linen rags for the paper makers, etc., etc. 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. 
