 | Theodore Parker - 1908 - 476 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...But mark how luxury will enter families, and make progress, in spite of principle: being called one morning to breakfast, I found it in a china bowl,... | |
 | Jeannette Rector Hodgdon - 1908 - 312 Seiten
...speak with him, he wrote the story of his life. In this book he says of his early married years : " Our breakfast was for a long time bread and milk (no tea)...twopenny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon." Nor was he too proud to carry paper to his shop in a wheelbarrow. One of the first things that made... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1908 - 430 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 - 1909 - 236 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1909 - 432 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1909 - 280 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 for a long time was bread and milk (no tea), and I eat it out of a twopenny earthen porringer with... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1910 - 216 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 twopenny earthen porringer, with a pewter... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1912 - 274 Seiten
...servants, our table was plain and simple, our furniture of the cheapest. For instance, my breakfast was a long time bread and milk (no tea), and I ate it...how luxury will enter families, and make a progress, 15 in spite of principle; being called one morning to breakfast, I found it in a china bowl, with a... | |
 | Emma Lilian Dana - 1915 - 234 Seiten
...business, folding and stitching pamphlets, tending shop, purchasing old linen rags for the paper makers. 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... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, John William Cunliffe, Ashley Horace Thorndike, Harry Morgan Ayres, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer - 1917 - 816 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... | |
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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 spoon. 
