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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,... "
Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight - Page 252
by Half hours - 1856
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America Through the Looking Glass: A Historical Reader in ..., Volumes 1-2

Popular culture - 1974 - 694 pages
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American Literature: A Prentice Hall Anthology, Volume 1

Emory Elliott - Literary Collections - 1991 - 2152 pages
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A Benjamin Franklin Reader

Walter Isaacson - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 576 pages
...horse 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..."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 you...
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A Benjamin Franklin Reader

Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 588 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 of merchant goods. The hour of sale not being come, they were conversing on the badness of...
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How to Get on in the World Or a Ladder to Practical Success

A. R. Calhoun - Self-Help - 2004 - 300 pages
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Proverbs: A Handbook

Wolfgang Mieder - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 336 pages
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Ben Franklin's Guide to Wealth: Being a 21st Century Treatise on What It ...

Erin Barrett, Jack Mingo - Self-Help - 2004 - 132 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..."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...
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Including Poor Richard's Almanac ...

Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 320 pages
...repeating those sentences, 1 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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An English Garner - Ingatherings from Our History and Literature

Edward Arber - Literary Collections - 2006 - 660 pages
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