 | William Peterfield Trent, Benjamin Willis Wells - American literature - 1901 - 362 pages
...then, how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am going to relate to you. I stopped "A my horse lately where a great number of people were...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... | |
 | Literature - 1901 - 668 pages
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 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1901 - 296 pages
...of people were collected at a vendue of merchant's goods. The hour of sale not being come, they wen conversing on the badness of the times ; and one of...Pray, Father Abraham, what think you of the times ? Won't these heavy taxes quite ruin the country? How shall we ever be able to pay them ? What would... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck, Frank R. Stockton, Nathan Haskell Dole, Julian Hawthorne - Anthologies - 1901 - 432 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... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - Literature - 1901 - 444 pages
...solid pudding, the great deficiency of praise would have quite discouraged me. 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... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - Readers - 1902 - 564 pages
...others. Judge, then, how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am going to relate to you. 2. 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... | |
 | Sherman Williams - Readers - 1902 - 504 pages
...author so great pleasure as to find his work respectfully quoted by others. Judge, then, how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am going...great number of people were collected at an auction of merchant's goods. The hour of the sale not being come, they were conversing on the badness of the times;... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - Biography - 1902 - 518 pages
...repeating 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...lately, where a great number of people were collected at a Vendue [sale} of Merchant's goods. The hour of sale not being come, they were conversing on the badness... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - American literature - 1903 - 600 pages
...lately, where a great number of people were collected at an auction2 of merchants' 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?3 Won't these heavy taxes quite ruin the country ? How shall we ever be able to pay... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1903 - 358 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... | |
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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,... 
