 I stopped my horse lately, where a great number of people were collected at an auction of merchants' goods. The hour of the sale not being come, they were conversing on the badness of the times; and one of the company called to a plain, clean, old man,...  Select Pieces - Page 2by Benjamin Franklin - 1804 - 59 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Gleaner - 1805 - 426 pages
...an auction of merchants' goods. The hour of sale hot being come, they were conversing on the badness of the times ; and one of the company called to a...father Abraham, what think you of the times? will not those heavy taxes quite ruin the country ? How shall we be ever able to pay them ? What would you advise... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American literature - 1806 - 590 pages
...money-hunters. There is certainly something very bewitching in the 2 c 2 pursuit were conversing on the badness of the times ; and one of the company called to a...heavy taxes quite ruin the country ? How shall we ever be able to pay them ? What would you advise us to ?' — Father Abraham stood up, and replied,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1806 - 586 pages
...preface, which his counr try men reail with much avidity and profit. BV were conversing on the badness of the times; and one of the company called to a plain...Father Abraham, what think you of the times ? Will not those heavy taxes quite ruin the country? How shall we ever be able to pay them? What would you advise... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...auction of merchant's goods. The hour of the sale not being come, they were conversing on the badness of the times ; and one of the company called to a...father Abraham, what think you of the times? Will not those heavy taxes quite ruin th« VOL. vi. » country ? How shall we be ever able to pay them ? What... | |
 | James Plumptre - English drama - 1812 - 424 pages
...an auction of merchant's goods. The hour of sale not being come, they were conversing on the badness of the times, and one of the company called to a plain clean Old Man, with white locks, Pray, neighbour Wiseman, what think you of the times ? Will not these heavy taxes quite ruin the country... | |
 | George Miller - 1813 - 638 pages
...an auction of merchants' goods. The hour of sale not being come, they were conversing on the badness of the times ; and one of the company called to a plain, clean, ~'d man with white locks, " Pray, Father Abraham, •what think you of the times ? Won't these heavy... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1819 - 520 pages
...auction of merchants' goods. The hour of the sale not being come, they were conversing on the badness of the times ; and one of the company called to a plain clean old man with 1 The origin and intent of this popular piece is fully explained by Dr. Franklin in the Memoirs of... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American essays - 1820 - 360 pages
...anction of merchants' goods. The hour of the sale not being come, they were conversing on the badness of the times ; and one of the company called to a...heavy taxes quite ruin the country ? How shall we ever be able to pay them ? What would you advise us to?" — Father Abraham stood up, and replied,... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 356 pages
...anction of merchants' goods. The hour of the sale not being come, they were conversing on the badness of the times ; and one of the company called to a...heavy taxes quite ruin the country ? How shall we ever be able to pay them ? What would you advise us to ?" — Father Abraham stood up, and replied,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1821 - 232 pages
...collected and digested in the ahove general preface, which his countrymen read with much avidity and profit one of the company called to a plain clean old man,...Will not these heavy taxes quite ruin the country ? I low shall we ever be able to pay them ? What would you advise us to ?" —Father Abraham stood... | |
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