 | Benjamin Franklin - 1905 - 396 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 would... | |
 | Lionel Strachey - Wit and humor - 1905 - 318 pages
...horse 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...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... | |
 | Readers, American - 1905 - 474 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...collected at 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... | |
 | Lionel Strachey - Wit and humor - 1905 - 316 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... | |
 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - Anthologies - 1910 - 330 pages
...have sometimes quoted myself with great gravity. Judge, then, how much I must have been gratified Ny an incident I am going to relate to you. I stopped...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... | |
 | 1902 - 438 pages
...so great pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by others. Judge, then, how much I must been gratified by an incident I am going to relate...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... | |
 | 1907 - 668 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 would... | |
 | American wit and humor - 1907 - 374 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... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - Basal reading instruction - 1909 - 428 pages
...others. Judge, then, how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am going to relate to you. 5 I stopped my horse, lately, where a great number of...white locks: "Pray, Father Abraham, what think you 10 of the times ? Will not these heavy taxes quite ruin the country ? How shall we ever be able to... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - Readers - 1909 - 426 pages
...others. Judge, then, how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am going to relate to you. SI stopped my horse, lately, where a great number of...white locks: "Pray, Father Abraham, what think you 10 of the times? Will not these heavy taxes quite ruin the country? How shall we ever be able to pay... | |
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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,... 
