 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 Seiten
...time bread and milk, (no tea) and I ate it out of a twopenny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon : but mark how luxury will enter families, and make...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 556 Seiten
...time bread and milk, (no tea) and I ate it out of a twopenny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon : but mark how luxury will enter families, and make...twenty shillings; for which she had no other excuse nr apology to make, but that she thought her husband deserved a silver spoon and china bowl as well... | |
 | 1818 - 590 Seiten
...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...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... | |
 | 1818 - 708 Seiten
...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...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... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1818 - 596 Seiten
...ask his wife :" (notea-,) and I ate it out of a two-penny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon : but mark how luxury will enter families, and make...breakfast, I found it in a china bowl, with a spoon of sirrer. They had been bought for me without my knowledge by my wife, and had cost her the enormous... | |
 | 1818 - 588 Seiten
...time bread and milk, (no tea) and I ate it out of a twopenny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon: but mark how luxury will enter families, and make...being called one morning to breakfast, 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 558 Seiten
...time bread and milk, (no tea) and I ate it out of a twopenny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon: but mark how luxury will enter families, and make...principle; being called one morning to breakfast, 1 found it in a china bowl, with a spoon of silver. •They had been bought for me without my knowledge... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 Seiten
...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...found it in a china bowl, with a spoon of silver. 10 They had been bought for me, without my knowledge, by my wife, and had cost her the enormous sum... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 336 Seiten
...bread anc ..liik, (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...found it in a china bowl, with a spoon of silver. 10 They had been bought for me, without my knowledge, by my wife, and had cost her the enormous sum... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 682 Seiten
...earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon : but mark how luxury will enter families, and make a progress m spite of principle ; being called one morning to breakfast,...found it in a china bowl, with a spoon of silver. They liad been bought for me without my knowledge by my wife, and had cost her the enormous sum of three... | |
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We kept no idle 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 out of a two-penny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon. But mark how luxury will... 
