 | Benjamin Franklin, Julian Willis Abernethy - 1892 - 200 páginas
...King of Denmark, to dinner. "We have an English proverb that says, "He that would thrive must ask Ms 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 - 1892 - 202 páginas
...Denmark, to dinner. We have an English proverb that says, " He that would thrive must ask his wife.'1'1 It was lucky for me that I had one as much disposed...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 - 1895 - 310 páginas
...King of Denmark, to dinner. We have an English proverb that says, " He that would thrive must asJc 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 - 1896 - 130 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.... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 464 páginas
...Edition of Franklin's Works WE HAVE an English proverb that says, "ffe 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 papermakers, etc., etc. We kept no idle servants; our table was plain and simple, our furniture of... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 462 páginas
...folding and stitching pamphlets, tending shop, purchasing old linen rags for the papermakers, etc., etc. We kept no idle servants; our table was plain and...furniture of the cheapest. 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... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, Edward Cornelius Towne, George Henry Warner - 1897 - 656 páginas
...Edition of Franklin's Works 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 papermakers, etc., etc. We kept no idle servants; our table was plain and simple, our furniture of... | |
 | 1897 - 568 páginas
...his life soon after his marriage, and while running the printing office in Philadelphia, he writes : "We kept no idle servants ; our table was plain and...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 . ' ' Franklin thus writes... | |
 | Edward Robins - 1898 - 444 páginas
...As he himself puts it : " 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... | |
 | Sydney George Fisher - 1898 - 440 páginas
...swimmingly. Soon after this he married Miss Read, and he has left us an account of how they lived together : "We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and...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 will... | |
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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. 
