 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1831 - 310 pages
...quoted myself with great gravity. Judge then how much I have been gratified by an incident which 1 am going to relate to you. I stopped my horse lately...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... | |
 | Working class - 1832 - 220 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...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... | |
 | Almanacs, American - 1833 - 336 pages
...others. Judge, then, how much I must have been gratified by an incident Í am going to relate to yon. 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1834 - 206 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 those heavy taxes quite ruin the country ? How shall we ever be able to pay them ? What... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American essays - 1834 - 310 pages
...lately where a great number of people were collected at "an auction of merchants' goods. The hour of sale not being come, they were conversing on the badness...plain, clean, old man, with white locks, " Pray, father Abrabam, what think ye of the tunes? Won't these heavy taxes quite ruin In» country ? How shall we... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1836 - 584 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Autobiographical memory - 1837 - 356 pages
...sometimes quoted myself with great gravity. Judge then how much I have been gratified by an incident which I am going to relate to you. I stopped my horse lately...great number of people were collected at an auction of merchant's goods. The hour of sale not being come, they were conversing on the badness of the times... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Political science - 1840 - 342 pages
...lately where a great numher of people were collected at an auction of merchant's 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 ? Won't these heavy taxes quite ruin the country ? How shall we ever be able to pay... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1841 - 300 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1844 - 600 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... | |
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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,... 
