 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 558 pages
...enormous sum of three and twenty shillings; for which she had no other excuse or apology to make, but that she thought her husband deserved a silver spoon and china bowl as well as any of his neighbors. This was the first appearance of plate and china in our house, which afterwards, in a course of years,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Philosophers - 1818 - 566 pages
...enormous sum of three and twenty shillings ; for which she had no other excuse or apology to make, but that she thought her husband deserved a silver spoon and China bowl as well as any of his neighbours. This was the first appearance of plate and china in our house, which afterwards, in course... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1818 - 596 pages
...enormous sum of three-and-twenty shillings; for which she had no other excuse or apology to make, but that she thought her husband deserved a silver spoon and china bowl as well as any of his neighbours.' (P. 65.) Dr. Franklin appears to have early conceived an aversion to the forms of public... | |
 | Great Britain - 1818 - 708 pages
...enormous sum of three- and-twenty shillings ; for which she had no other excuse or apology to make, but that she thought her husband deserved a silver spoon and china bowl as well as any of his neighbours. This was the first appearance of plate and china in our house, which afterwards, in a course... | |
 | Great Britain - 1818 - 590 pages
...enormous sum of three- and-twenty shillings ; for which she had no other excuse or apology to make, but that she thought her husband deserved a silver spoon and china bowl as weH as any of his neighbours. This was the first appearance of plate and china in our house, which... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...enormous sum of three and twenty shillings; for which she had no other excuse or apology to make, but that she thought her husband deserved a silver spoon and china bowl as well as any of his neighbors.* SECTION III. His project of arriving at moral perfection: catalogue and illustrations of the moral... | |
 | United States - 1826 - 422 pages
...were bought for him, without his knowledge, by Mrs Franklin, who had only the sound apology to make, that she thought her husband deserved a silver spoon and china bowl as well as any of his neighbours ! This, he says, was the first appearance of plate and china in his house. In 1732 he published... | |
 | United States - 1826 - 440 pages
...were bought for him, without his knowledge, by Mrs Franklin, who had only the sound apology to make, that she thought her husband deserved a silver spoon and china bowl as well as any of his neighbours ! This, he says, was the first appearance of plate and china in his house. In 1732 he published... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 pages
...shillings ; for which she had no other excuse or apol ogy to make, but that she thought her husbajid deserved a silver spoon and china bowl as well as any of his neighbors.* SECTION III. His prefect of arriving at moral perfection: catalogueand illustrations of the moral virtues:... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1834 - 682 pages
...enormous sum of three and twenty shillings ; for which she had DO other excuse or apology to make, but that she thought her husband deserved a silver spoon and china bowl as well as any of his neiehbours. This was the first appearance of plate and china in our house, which afterwards, in a course... | |
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... one morning to breakfast, I found it in a China bowl, with a spoon of silver! They had been bought for me without my knowledge by my wife, and had cost her the enormous sum of... 
