| Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 320 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...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... | |
| Orville Luther Holley - Inventors - 1848 - 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 1 How shall we ever be able to pay them? What would... | |
| 1853 - 446 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 be ever able to pay them? What would... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1853 - 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...where a great number of people were collected, at an * Dr. Franklin for many years published the Pennsylvania Almanac, purporting to be the work of R'chard... | |
| Ludwig Herrig - American literature - 1854 - 580 pages
...äs to find his works respectfully quoted by others. Judge, then, how much I must have been gratifled by an incident I am going to relate to you. I stopped...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;... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1855 - 522 pages
...These sentences and proverbs he collected and digested in the above preface. 30* auction of merchant's goods. The hour of the sale not being come, they were...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... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 pages
...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... | |
| Joseph Gostwick - American literature - 1856 - 338 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... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American prose literature - 1856 - 592 pages
...author so great pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by others. Judge, tuen, how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am going...were collected at an auction of merchants' goods. Tlie hour of the sale not being come, they were conversing on the badnees of the times ; and one of... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1858 - 752 pages
...author so great pleasure ns to find his works respectfully quoted by others. Jndge, then, how mnch 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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