 | 1818 - 590 Seiten
...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...a two-penny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon : but mark how luxury will enter families, and make a progress in spite of principle; being called... | |
 | 1818 - 486 Seiten
...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...a two-penny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon : but mark how luxury will enter families, and make a progress in spite of principle ; being called... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 556 Seiten
...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...a twopenny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon : but mark how luxury will enter families, and make a progress in spite of principle; being called... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1818 - 596 Seiten
...dinner. We have an English proverb that says, "' He that would thrive Must 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 a progress in spite of principle; being called... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 Seiten
...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 simple, our furniture of the cheapest. 9 For instance, my breakfast was for a long time bread and milk, (no tea) and I ate it out of a two... | |
 | 1826 - 422 Seiten
...plain and simple, and his furniture homely. His breakfast, for instance, was bread and milk ; and he ate it out of a twopenny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon, indulging himself with no tea. But one morning our philosopher discovered a china bowl with a silver... | |
 | 1826 - 440 Seiten
...plain and simple, and his furniture homely. His breakfast, for instance, was bread and milk ; and he ate it out of a twopenny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon, indulging himself with no tea. But one morning our philosopher discovered a china bowl with a silver... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 336 Seiten
...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 simple, our furniture of the cheapest. 9 For instance, my breakfast was for a long time bread anc ..liik, (no tea) and I ate it out of a two... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 682 Seiten
...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...breakfast was for a long time bread and milk, (no ten) and I ate it out of a twopenny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon : but mark how luxury will... | |
 | James Herring, James Barton Longacre - 1835 - 362 Seiten
...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...and milk, (no tea) and I ate it out of a two-penny porringer, with a pewter spoon ; but mark how luxury will enter families, and make a progress in spite... | |
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For instance, my breakfast was for a long time bread and milk, (no tea), and I ate it out of a twopenny earthen porringer with a pewter spoon. 
