 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - Readers - 1878 - 508 pages
...others. Judge, then, how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am going to relate to you. 2. 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... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - Readers - 1879 - 508 pages
...gratified by an incident I am going to relate to you. 2. I stopped my horse, lately, where a great numbei of people were collected at an auction of merchants'...with white locks : " Pray, Father Abraham, what think yon of the times ? Will not these heavy taxes quite ruin the country ? How shall we ever be able to... | |
 | Chautauquas - 1882 - 630 pages
...find his works respectfully quoted by others. Judge, then, how much I must have been gratified by ¡xn incident I am going to relate to you. I stopped my...the company called to a plain, clean old man, with whit« locks, "Pray, father Abraham, what think you of the times? Will not those heavy taxes quite... | |
 | sir Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave - 1882 - 250 pages
...lately where a 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...with white locks, ' Pray, father Abraham, what think ye of the times ? Won't these heavy taxes quite ruin the country ? How shall we be ever able to pay... | |
 | Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - American literature - 1884 - 536 pages
...Illustrations of the Literature of the Revolutionary Period. BKNJAMIN FRANKLIN. From POOR RICHARD'S ALMANAC. The hour of the sale not being come, they were conversing...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... | |
 | Osgood Eaton Fuller - Biography - 1884 - 564 pages
...where a great company of people were collected at an auction of merchants' goods. The hour of the eale not being come, they were conversing on the badness..."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 would... | |
 | Fortunate men - 1884 - 192 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...lately, where a great number of people were collected, «it an auction of merchants' goods. The hour of the ' * Dr. Franklin for many years published the... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1885 - 752 pages
...author so great pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by others. Judge, then, how much I ild. 0 God! to hear the Insect on the leaf pronouncing...before the Ghost's rebuke, and trembling cast his Will not these heavy taxes quite ruin bear any share in the public expenses, which he f*t nettled to... | |
 | Improved illustrated reader - 1885 - 266 pages
...I must have been gratified by an incident I am going to relate. I stopped my horse, lately, where a number of people were collected at an auction of merchants'...they were conversing on the badness of the times. One of the company called to a plain, clean old man, with white locks, " Pray, father Abraham, what... | |
 | Frank McAlpine - American prose literature - 1886 - 456 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...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;... | |
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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,... 
