 | James Herring, James Barton Longacre - 1835 - 442 Seiten
...instance, my breakfast was for a long time bread and milk, (no tea) and I ate it out of a two-penny porringer, with a pewter spoon ; but mark how luxury...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 neighbors.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 Seiten
...instance, my breakfast was for 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...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.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 668 Seiten
...instance, my breakfast was for 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...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.... | |
 | 1842 - 194 Seiten
...says Franklin, " was for a long time bread and milk (no tea), and I ate it out of a twopenny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon : but mark how luxury...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 neighbors.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1848 - 676 Seiten
...instance, my breakfast was for 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...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.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 522 Seiten
...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. But mark how luxury...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 neighbors.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 Seiten
...my breakfast was, for 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...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 neighbors.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1856 - 654 Seiten
...instance, my breakfast was for 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...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.... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1856 - 1048 Seiten
...instance, my breakfast was for a long time bread and niilk (not tea), and I ate it out of a twopenny earthern porringer, with a pewter spoon. But mark...knowledge by my wife, and had cost her the enormous sum of three-andtwenty shillings, — for which she had no other excuse or apology to make, but that she thought... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Horatio Hastings Weld - 1856 - 584 Seiten
...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. But mark how luxury...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-and-twenty... | |
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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 twopenny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon. But mark how luxury will... 
