 | John Bach McMaster - Biography & Autobiography - 1887 - 316 pages
...sometimes quoted myself with great gravity. Judge, then, how much I must have been gratified by au incident I am going to relate to you. I stopped my...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... | |
 | W & R CHAMBERS - 1887 - 238 pages
...lately where a 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...with white locks: ' Pray, father Abraham, what think ye of the times ? Won't these heavy taxes quite ruin the country ? How shall we be ever able to pay... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 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... | |
 | Brahma-samaj - 1889 - 854 pages
...I 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...the company called to a plain, clean old man with fbite locks, ' Pray, Father Abraham, what think yon of the times ? Will not these heavy taxes quite... | |
 | American literature - 1891 - 508 pages
...repeating those sentences, I have sometimes quoted myself with great gravity. Judge, then, how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am going...lately where a great number of people were collected at a vendue of merchant's goods. The hour of sale not being come, they were conversing on the badness... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 518 pages
...where a great nnmber of people were collected at an auction of merchants' goods. The hour of the tale not being come, they were conversing on the badness..."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... | |
 | Marshman William Hazen - Readers - 1895 - 452 pages
...pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors. Judge, then, how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am going...lately where a great number of people were collected at a vendue of merchant goods. The hour of sale not being come, they were conversing on the badness of... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 464 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Readers - 1896 - 220 pages
...reading those wise sentences, I have sometimes quoted myself with great gravity. Judge, then, how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am going...the sale not being come, they were conversing on the br.dness of the times ; and one of the company called to a plain, clean old man with white locks, "Pray,... | |
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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,... 
