 | William Peterfield Trent, Benjamin Willis Wells - 1901 - 358 Seiten
...a 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... | |
 | 1901 - 502 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... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1901 - 714 Seiten
...being call'd one morning to breakfast, I found it in a China bowl, with No. 8a] Society in Virginia 235 a spoon of silver ! They had been bought for me without...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 - 1905 - 238 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 threeand-twenty shillings, for which she had no other excuse or apology to make, but that she thought... | |
 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1910 - 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 me...knowledge by my wife, and had cost her the enormous sum of threeand-twenty shillings, for which she had no other excuse or apology to make but that she thought... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1905 - 354 Seiten
...progress, in spite of principle : being call'd 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1905 - 496 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 to make, but that she thought her husband deserv'da silver spoon and China bowl as well as any of his neighbors. This was the first appearance... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1906 - 124 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... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1906 - 128 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... | |
 | Franklin Bi-centennial Joint Committee (Boston, Mass.) - 1906 - 132 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... | |
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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! 
