...folding and stitching pamphlets, tending shop, purchasing old linen rags for the paper makers, &c. We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and simple, our furniture of the cheapest. 1 or instance, my breakfast was, for a long time, bread and milk, (no tea,) and I ate it out of a two...

...folding and stitching pamphlets, tending shop, purchasing old linen rags for the paper-makers, &,c. We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and...time bread and milk (no tea), and I ate it out of a two penny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon. But mark how luxury will enter families, and make...

...delightful peep into their way of living, and the love his wife had for him. " We kept," he says, " no idle servants, our table was plain and simple,...instance, my breakfast was for a long time bread and niilk (not tea), and I ate it out of a twopenny earthern porringer, with a pewter spoon. But mark how...

...stitching pamphlets, tending shop, purchasing old linen rags for the paperLIFE OF FRANKLIN. makers, &c. We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and...cheapest. For instance, my breakfast was for a long tin»e bread and milk (no tea), and I ate it out of a twopenny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon....

...luxury. We have an English proverb, that says, — " Ho that would thrive Must ask his wife." servant ; our table was plain and simple ; our furniture of...spoon. But mark how luxury will enter families, and mako a progress in spite of principle : being called one morning to breakfast, I found it in a china...

...at this era of life, living beyond their income, he continued frugal. He said of himself and wife, " We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and...twopenny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon." Thus he reduced to practice the couplet which he wrote : — " Vessels large may venture more, But...

...at this era of life, live beyond their income, he continued frugal. He said of himself and wife : " We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and...twopenny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon." Thus he reduced to practice the couplet which he wrote : — " Vessels large may venture more, But...

...cheapest sort. The printer's breakfast consisted, for a long while, of bread and milk, which was eaten out of a twopenny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon. " But mark" he says, " how luxury will enter families, and make a progress, in spite of principle. Being called...

...at this era of life, living beyond their income, he continued frugal. He said of himself and wife, " We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and...twopenny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon." Thus he reduced to practice the couplet which he wrote :— " Vessels large may venture more, But little...

...business, folding and stitching pamphlets, tending shop, purchasing old linen rags for the papermakers, &c. We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and...cheapest. For instance, my breakfast was for a long tune bread and milk (no tea), and I ate it out of a twopenny earthen porringer, with a pewter •spoon....