 | William Chambers - Conduct of life - 1858 - 378 pages
...quoted myself with great gravity. 'Judge, then, how much I have been gratified by an incident which I am going to relate to you. I stopped my horse lately...great number of people were collected at an auction of merchant's goods. The hour of sale not being come, they were conversing on the badness of the times... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1859 - 812 pages
...author so great pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by others. Judge, then, how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am going...Pray, Father Abraham, what think you of the times ? Will not these heavy taxes quite ruin the country ? How shall we ever be able to pay them ? What... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1859 - 482 pages
...stopped my horse lately, where a great number of people were collected at an auction of merchant's goods. The hour of the sale not being come, they were...called to a plain, clean, old man, with white locks : " Fray, Father Abraham, what think you of the times ? "Will not these heavy taxes quite ruin the... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 pages
...author so great pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by others. Judge, then, how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am going...Pray, Father Abraham, what think you of the times ? Will not these heavy taxes quite ruin the country '/ How shall we ever be able to pay them ? What... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1862 - 796 pages
...author so great pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by others. Jndge, then, how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am going...Pray, Father Abraham, what think you of the times 1 Will not these heavy taxes quite ruin the country ? How shall we ever be able to pay them ? What... | |
 | James Parton - Biography & Autobiography - 1864 - 668 pages
...remark, that nothing pleases an author more than to hear himself quoted, Poor Richard thus proceeds : " I stopped my horse lately where a great number of...'Pray, Father Abraham, what think you of the times? Will not these heavy taxes quite ruin the country ? How shall we ever be able to pay them? What would... | |
 | Great Britain. Committee on Education - Education - 1864 - 200 pages
...from his hand the balance and the rod, Rciudge his iustice, be the God of God. POOR RICHARD'S MAXIMS. I STOPPED my horse, lately, where a great number of...company called to a plain, clean, old man, with white looks, " Pray, father Abraham, what think you of the times ? Will not those heavy taxes quite ruin... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1864 - 260 pages
...lately where a great number uf people were collected at an auction of merchant's goods. The hour of sale not being come, they were conversing on the badness...Pray, father Abraham, what think you of the times * Won't these heavy taxes quite ruin the country? How shall we be ever able to pay them ? What would... | |
 | Ackworth sch - 1865 - 442 pages
...writer so great pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by others. Judge, then, how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am going...Pray, 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... | |
 | James Parton - 1865 - 672 pages
...remark, that nothing pleases an author more than to hear himself quoted, Poor Richard thus proceeds : " I stopped my horse lately where a great number of...of merchants' goods. The hour of the sale not being coroe, they were conversing on the badness of the times; and one of the company called to a plain,... | |
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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,... 
