 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1920 - 458 Seiten
...PROVERB BENJAMIN FRANKLIN We have an English proverb that says, "He that would thrive must ask his wife." It was lucky for me that I had one as much...assisted me cheerfully in my business, folding and s stitching pamphlets, tending shop, purchasing old linen rags for the paper-makers, etc., etc. We... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck, Lura E. Runkel - 1920 - 456 Seiten
...PROVERB BENJAMIN FRANKLIN We have an English proverb that says, "He that would thrive must ask his wife." It was lucky for me that I had one as much...assisted me cheerfully in my business, folding and s stitching pamphlets, tending shop, purchasing old linen rags for the paper-makers, etc., etc. We... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1921 - 280 Seiten
...proverb that says, "He that would thrive must ask his wife." It was lucky for me that I had one as muoh disposed to industry and frugality as myself. She...pamphlets, tending shop, purchasing old linen rags for the paper-makers, etc. We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and simple, our furniture of the cheapest.... | |
 | Emma Lilian Dana - 1923 - 232 Seiten
...to his great success. "We have an English proverb," he says, " 'He that would thrive, must ask his wife.' It was lucky for me that I had one as much...shop, purchasing old linen rags for the paper makers. We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and simple, our furniture of the cheapest. For instance,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1923 - 328 Seiten
...says, "He that would thrive, must ask his wife." It was lucky for me that I had one as much dispos'd to industry and frugality as myself. She assisted...shop, purchasing old linen rags for the paper- makers, etc., etc. We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and simple, our furniture of the cheapest.... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1923 - 328 Seiten
...efficient. Franklin was a simple American and a great statesman. Of his wife and family life he wrote : " She assisted me cheerfully in my business, folding...pamphlets, tending shop, purchasing old linen rags for the papermakers, etc. We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and simple, our furniture of the cheapest.... | |
 | Sydney George Fisher - 1926 - 446 Seiten
...Soon after this he married Miss Read, and he has left us an account of how they lived together : " We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and...my breakfast was for a long time bread and milk (no tea), and I ate it out of a twopenny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon. But mark how luxury will... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1927 - 344 Seiten
...says, " He that would thrive, must ask his wife" It was lucky for me that I had one as much dispos'd to industry and frugality as myself. She assisted...pamphlets, tending shop, purchasing old linen rags for che papermakers, etc., etc. We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and simple, our furniture... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1901 - 692 Seiten
...says, "He that would thrive, must ask his wife." It was lucky for me that I had one as much dispos'd to industry and frugality as myself. She assisted...pamphlets, tending shop, purchasing old linen rags for the paper-makers, etc., etc. We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and simple, our furniture of... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart, John Gould Curtis - 1924 - 690 Seiten
...says, "He that would thrive, must ask his wife." It was lucky for me that I had one as much dispos'd to industry and frugality as myself. She assisted...pamphlets, tending shop, purchasing old linen rags for the paper-makers, etc., etc. We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and simple, our furniture of... | |
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For instance, my breakfast was a long time bread and milk (no tea), and I ate it out of a twopenny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon. 
