| 1897 - 568 Seiten
...his life soon after his marriage, and while running the printing office in Philadelphia, he writes : "We kept no idle servants ; our table was plain and...a two-penny earthen porringer with a pewter spoon . ' ' Franklin thus writes in regard to his frugal, temperate and industrious habits: "I was indebted... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, Edward Cornelius Towne, George Henry Warner - 1897 - 656 Seiten
...folding and stitching pamphlets, tending shop, purchasing old linen rags for the papermakers, etc., etc. We kept no idle servants; our table was plain and...furniture of the cheapest. 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... | |
| Edward Robins - 1898 - 444 Seiten
...folding and stitching pamphlets, tending shop, purchasing old linen rags for the paper-makers, etc., etc. We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and...furniture of the cheapest. For instance, my breakfast was a long time bread and milk (no tea) and I ate it out of a two-penny earthen porringer, with a pewter... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1899 - 204 Seiten
...folding and stitching pamphlets, tending shop, purchasing old linen rags for the paper-makers, etc., etc. We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and...furniture of the cheapest. 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... | |
| Paul Leicester Ford - 1899 - 554 Seiten
...folding and stitching pamphlets, tending shop, purchasing old linen rags for the paper-makers, etc., etc. We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and...furniture of the cheapest. 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... | |
| Albert Franklin Blaisdell - 1900 - 484 Seiten
...and simple," says Franklin in his autobiography, "our furniture of the cheapest. For instance, our breakfast was for a long time bread and milk (no tea),...twopenny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon." In after years the thrifty couple indulged in some splendor, for in 1765 Mrs. Franklin, in a letter... | |
| Paul Elmer More More - 1900 - 160 Seiten
...simple, their furniture of the cheapest. His breakfast for a long time was bread and mi1Tr? and he ate it out of a twopenny earthen porringer with a pewter spoon. " But mark," he adds, " how luxuries will enter families and make a progress despite of principles : being called... | |
| Paul Elmer More - 1900 - 164 Seiten
...and simple, their furniture of the cheapest. His breakfast for a long time was bread and milk, and he ate it out of a twopenny earthen porringer with a pewter spoon. " But mark," he adds, " how luxuries will enter families and make a progress despite of principles : being called... | |
| 1901 - 502 Seiten
...folding and stitching pamphlets, tending shop, purchasing old linen rags for the paper makers, etc., etc. We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and...furniture of the cheapest. 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... | |
| William Peterfield Trent, Benjamin Willis Wells - 1901 - 362 Seiten
...folding and stitching pamphlets, tending shop, purchasing old linen rags for the paper makers, etc. We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and...furniture of the cheapest. For instance, my breakfast was a long time bread and milk (no tea), and I ate it out of a two-penny earthen porringer, with a pewter... | |
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