 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 páginas
...instance, my breakfast was for a long time bread and milk, (no tea) and I ate it out of a twopenny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon : but mark how luxury...shillings; for which she had no other excuse or apology to VOL. I. I make, but that she thought her husband deserved a silver spoon and China bowl as well as... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 556 páginas
...instance, my breakfast was for a long time bread and milk, (no tea) and I ate it out of a twopenny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon : but mark how luxury...twenty shillings; for which she had no other excuse nr apology to make, but that she thought her husband deserved a silver spoon and china bowl as well... | |
 | 1818 - 486 páginas
...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...wife, and had cost her the enormous sum of three- and-twenty shillings; for which she had no other excuse or apology to make, but that she thought her... | |
 | 1818 - 590 páginas
...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...wife, and had cost her the enormous sum of three- and-twenty shillings ; for which she had no other excuse or apology to make, but that she thought her... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1818 - 596 páginas
...says, "' He that would thrive Must ask his wife :" (notea-,) and I ate it out of a two-penny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon : but mark how luxury...breakfast, I found it in a china bowl, with a spoon of sirrer. They had been bought for me without my knowledge by my wife, and had cost her the enormous... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 558 páginas
...instance, my breakfast was for a long time bread and milk, (no tea) and I ate it out of a twopenny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon: but mark how luxury...principle; being called one morning to breakfast, 1 found it in a china bowl, with a spoon of silver. •They had been bought for me without my knowledge... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 páginas
...instance, 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...found it in a china bowl, with a spoon of silver. 10 They had been bought for me, without my knowledge, by my wife, and had cost her the enormous sum... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 336 páginas
...my breakfast was for a long time bread anc ..liik, (no tea) and I ate it out of a two penny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon: but mark how luxury...found it in a china bowl, with a spoon of silver. 10 They had been bought for me, without my knowledge, by my wife, and had cost her the enormous sum... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 682 páginas
...instance, my breakfast was for a long time bread and milk, (no ten) and I ate it out of a twopenny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon : but mark how luxury will enter families, and make a progress m spite of principle ; being called one morning to breakfast, I found it in a china bowl, with a spoon... | |
 | John Stanley (printer.) - 1849 - 178 páginas
...instance, my breakfast was for a long time bread and milk, (no tea), and I ate it out of a penny earthern porringer, with a pewter spoon. But mark how luxury...which she had no other excuse or apology to make, bnt that she thought her husband deserved a silver spoon and china bowl as well as any of his neighbours.... | |
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We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and simple, our furniture of the cheapest. For instance, my breakfast was 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... 
