 | Samuel Adams Drake - 1888 - 824 Seiten
...water," he tells us in his Autobiography ; " the other workmen were great drinkers of beer. On occasion I carried up and down stairs a large form of types...stronger than themselves, who drank strong beer." Clear-headed in youth as in age, Franklin had already discovered how graciously Temperance treats her... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 Seiten
...drank only water; the other workmen, near fifty in number, were great guzzlers of beer. On occasion, I carried up and down stairs a large form of types...to see, from this and several instances, that the Water-American, as they called me, was stronger than themselves, who drank strong beer! We had an alehouse... | |
 | 1915 - 464 Seiten
...drank only water; the ether workmen, near fifty in number, were great guzzlers of beer. On occasion, I carried up and down stairs a large form of types...to see, from this and several instances, that the Water-American, as they called me, was stronger than themselves, who drank strong beer! We had an alehouse... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1888 - 332 Seiten
...fifty in number, were great guzzlers of beer. On occasion, I carried up and down stairs a large form l of types in each hand, when others carried but one...to see, from this and several instances, that the Water-American, as they called me, was stronger than themselves, who drank strong beer ! We had an... | |
 | Walter W. Spooner - 1891 - 684 Seiten
...workmen. nearly fifty in number, were great drinkers of beer. On occasion I carried up and down stabs a large form of types in each hand, when others carried...was stronger than themselves, who drank strong beer. We had an ale-house boy, who attended always in the house to supply the workmen. My companion at the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1891 - 142 Seiten
...drank only water ; the other workmen, near fifty in number, were great drinkers of beer. On occasion, I carried up and down stairs a large form of types...to see, from this and several instances, that the WaterAmerican, as they called me, was stronger than themselves, who drank strong beer ! We had an alehouse... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1892 - 202 Seiten
...drank only water ; the other workmen, near fifty in number, were great guzzlers of beer. On occasion, I carried up and down stairs a large form of types...to see, from this and several instances, that the Water-American, as they called me, was stronger than themselves, who drank strong beer ! We had an... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Julian Willis Abernethy - 1892 - 200 Seiten
...one in both hands. They wondered to see, from this and several instances, that the Water-American, as they called me, was stronger than themselves, who drank strong beer ! We had an alehouse boy \vho attended always in the house to supply the workmen. My 1. The printing-press... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson, Mrs. Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz - 1894 - 592 Seiten
...drank only water ; the other workmen, near fifty in number, were great guzzlers of beer. On occasion, I carried up and down stairs a large form of types...to see, from this and several instances, that the Water-American, as they called me, was stronger than themselves, who drank strong beer! We had an alehouse... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1895 - 310 Seiten
...drauk only water; the other workmen, near fifty in number, were great drinkers of beer. On occasion I carried up and down stairs a large form of types...to see, from this and several instances, that the Wafer-American, as they called me, was stronger than themselves, who drank strong beer! We had an ale-house... | |
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American, as they called me, was stronger than themselves, who drank strong beer! We had an alehouse boy, who attended always in the house to supply the workmen. My companion at the press drank every day a pint before breakfast, a pint at breakfast with... 
