 | Benjamin Franklin - 1888 - 330 Seiten
...progress, in spite of principle : being called one morning to breakfast, I found it in a china bowl, with a spoon of silver ! They had been bought for...knowledge by my wife, and had cost her the enormous sum of three-andtwenty shillings,1 for which she had no other excuse or apology to make, but that she thought... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1888 - 250 Seiten
...bought for me without my knowledge by my wife, and had cost her the enormous sum of three-and-twenty shillings, for which she had no other excuse or apology...make, but that she thought her husband deserved a silver spoon and China bowl as well as any of his neighbors. This was the first appearance of plate... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1890 - 322 Seiten
...progress, in spite of principle ; being called one morning to breakfast, I found it in a china bowl, with a spoon of silver ! They had been bought for...to make but that she thought her husband deserved a silver spoon and china bowl as well as any of his neighbors. This was the first appearance of plate... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1891 - 142 Seiten
...progress, in spite of principle : being called one morning to breakfast, I found it in a China bowl, with a spoon of silver ! They had been bought for...without my knowledge by my wife, and had cost her the 57 enormous sum of three-and-twenty shillings, for which she had no other excuse or apology to make,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1892 - 202 Seiten
...progress, in spite of principle: being called one morning to breakfast, I found it in a China bowl, with a spoon of silver! They had been bought for me...knowledge by my wife, and had cost her the enormous sum of three-and-twenty shillings, for which she had no other excuse or apology to make, but that she thought... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1895 - 310 Seiten
...progress, in spite of principle; being called one morning to breakfast, I found it in a china bowl, with a spoon of silver! They had been bought for me...knowledge by my wife, and had cost her the enormous sum of three-aud-twenty shillings; for which she had no other excuse or apology to make, but that she thought... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1896 - 280 Seiten
...progress, in spite of principle : being called one morning to breakfast, I found it in a China bowl, with a spoon of silver ! They had been bought for...knowledge by my wife, and had cost her the enormous sum of three-and-twenty shillings, for which she had no other excuse or apology to make, but that she thought... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 462 Seiten
...progress, in spite of principle: being called one morning to breakfast, I found it in a china bowl, with a spoon of silver! They had been bought for me...knowledge by my wife, and had cost her the enormous sum of three-and-twenty shillings, for which she had no other excuse or apology to make but that she thought... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1896 - 130 Seiten
...progress, in spite of principle : being called one morning to breakfast, I found it in a China bowl, with a spoon of silver ! They had been bought for...knowledge by my wife, and had cost her the enormous sum of three-and-twenty shillings, for which she had no other excuse or apology to make, but that she thought... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - 1896 - 500 Seiten
...morning to breakfast, I found it in a china bowl, with a spoon of silver ! They had been bought for \ae without my knowledge by my wife, and had cost her the enormous sum of thre« and twenty shillings; for which she had no other excuse or apology to make, but that she thought... | |
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But mark how luxury will enter families, and make a progress, in spite of principle : being called one morning to breakfast, I found it in a China bowl, with a spoon of silver! 
