 | Edwin Du Bois Shurter - Elocution - 1917 - 328 pages
...valuable for memorizing because it will fix in mind the famous proverbs and sayings of "Poor Richard." 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... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - Readers - 1920 - 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...locks: "Pray, Father Abraham, what think you of the 10 times? Will not these heavy taxes quite ruin the country? How shall we ever be able to pay them?... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - Literature - 1920 - 668 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...locks: "Pray, Father Abraham, what think you of the w times? Will not these heavy taxes quite ruin the country? How shall we ever be able to pay them?... | |
 | William Harris Elson - 1921 - 552 pages
...others. Judge, then, how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am going to relate to you. the times; and one of the company called to a plain,..."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... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - Anthologies - 1922 - 518 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 1 of merchants' goods. The hour of sale not being come, they were conversing on the badness... | |
 | Howard Copeland Hill, Rollo La Verne Lyman - Readers - 1924 - 560 pages
...my horse, lately, where a great number of people were collected at an auction of merchants' goods. They were conversing on the badness of the times;...locks: "Pray, Father Abraham, what think you of the tunes ? Will not these heavy taxes quite ruin the country? How shall we ever be able to pay them? What... | |
 | Rollo La Verne Lyman, Howard Copeland Hill - Readers - 1925 - 736 pages
...my horse, lately, where a great number of people were collected at an auction of merchants' goods. They were conversing on the badness of the times;..."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... | |
 | Robert Shafer - American literature - 1926 - 1410 pages
...repeating those wise Sentences, I have sometimes quoted myself with great Gravity. Judge, then how much I Bacchus round some antique vase, Brie a Vendue of Merchant Goods. The Hour of Sale not being come, they were conversing on the Badness of... | |
 | William Gardiner - Conduct of life - 1927 - 328 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,... 
