 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 812 Seiten
...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...and make a progress, in spite of principle : being call'd one morning to breakfast, I found it in a China bowl, with a spoon of silver I They had been... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 602 Seiten
...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...and make a progress, in spite of principle : being call'd one morning to breakfast, I found it in a China bowl, with a spoon of silver ! They had been... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1876 - 394 Seiten
...bread and milk, (no tea) and I ate it out of a two-penny earthern porringer, with a pewter-spoon. " But mark how luxury will enter families, and make...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.... | |
 | Jeremiah Chaplin - 1876 - 416 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 will enter families, and make progress, in spite of principle; being called one morning to breakfast, I found it in a China bowl,... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - 1879 - 430 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 neighbors.... | |
 | John Stevens C. Abbott - 1879 - 418 Seiten
...bread and milk, (no tea) and I ate it out of a two-penny earthern porringer, with a pewter-spoon. " But mark how luxury will enter families, and make...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.... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - 1882 - 492 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...bought for me without my knowledge by my wife, and bad cost her the enormous sum of three and twenty shillings; for which she had no other excuse or apology... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - 1883 - 492 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...had cost her the enormous sum of three and twenty shilling; for which she had no other excuse or apology to make, but that she thought her husband deserved... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - 1884 - 486 Seiten
...instance, my breakfast was for a long time bread and milk (no ten), and I ate it out of a two-penny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon. But mark how luxury...china bowl, with a spoon of silver! They had been bonrrM for v, without my knowledge by my wife, and bad cost her the enormous sum of three and twenty... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1886 - 256 Seiten
...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...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... | |
| |
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... 
