 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Business & Economics - 2006 - 168 pages
...helps them that kelp themfeher, as Poor PJchard fays, in his Almanack of 1 733. 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... | |
 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - Literature - 1899 - 522 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... | |
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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,... 
