I found it in a China bowl, with a spoon of silver! They had been 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... Benjamin Franklin: His Life - Página 103por Benjamin Franklin - 1888 - 311 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 558 páginas
...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,...appearance of plate and china in our house, which afterwards, in a course of years, as our wealth increased, augmented gradually to several hundred pounds... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 556 páginas
...and had cost her the enormous sum of three and twenty shillings; for which she had no other excuse nr apology to make, but that she thought her husband...appearance of plate and china in our house, which afterwards, in a course of years, as our wealth increased, augmented gradually to several hundred pounds... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 páginas
...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,...silver spoon and China bowl as well as any of his neighbours. This was the first appearance of plate and china in our house, which afterwards, in course... | |
| 1818 - 708 páginas
...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,...silver spoon and china bowl as well as any of his neighbours. This was the first appearance of plate and china in our house, which afterwards, in a course... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1818 - 596 páginas
...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,...silver spoon and china bowl as well as any of his neighbours.' (P. 65.) Dr. Franklin appears to have early conceived an aversion to the forms of public... | |
| 1818 - 590 páginas
...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,...husband deserved a silver spoon and china bowl as weH as any of his neighbours. This was the first appearance of plate and china in our house, which... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 páginas
...enormous sum of three and twenty shillings; for which she had no other excuse or apology to VOL. I. I make, but that she thought her husband deserved a silver spoon and China bowl as well as any of his neighbours. This was the first appearance of plate and China in our house, which afterwards, in a course... | |
| 1818 - 588 páginas
...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 deserved a silver-spoon and china-bowl, as well as any of his neighbours. This was the first appearance of plate... | |
| Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 páginas
...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,...spoon and china bowl as well as any of his neighbors.* SECTION III. His project of arriving at moral perfection: catalogue and illustrations of the moral... | |
| 1826 - 440 páginas
...were bought for him, without his knowledge, by Mrs Franklin, who had only the sound apology to make, that she thought her husband deserved a silver spoon and china bowl as well as any of his neighbours ! This, he says, was the first appearance of plate and china in his house. In 1732 he published... | |
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