 | Thomas Jefferson - 1905 - 598 Seiten
...out his time, was about to open shop for himself, his first concern was to have a handsome signboard, with a proper inscription. He composed it in these...to his friends for their amendments. The first he shewed it to thought the word "Hatter" tautologous, because followed by the words "makes hats" which... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1904 - 408 Seiten
...hatter, was about to open a shop for himself. His first concern was to have a handsome sign-board, with a proper inscription. He composed it in these words, ' John Thompson, Hitter, makes and sells Hats for ready Money." But he thought he would submit it to his friends for... | |
 | William Makepeace Thayer - 1905 - 422 Seiten
...his time, was about to open shop for himself. His first concern was to have a handsome sign-board, with a proper inscription. He composed it in these...because followed by the words makes hats, which showed he was a hatter. It was struck out. The next observed that the word makes might as well be omitted,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1905 - 496 Seiten
...out his time, was about to open shop for himself. His first concern was to have a handsome signboard, with a proper inscription. He composed it in these...Hatter, makes and sells hats for ready money," with the figure of a hat subjoined ; but he thought he would submit it to his friends for their amendments.... | |
 | Daniel Harvey Hill, Frank Lincoln Stevens, Charles William Burkett - 1906 - 424 Seiten
...proper inscription. He composed it in these words, ' John Thompson, Hatter, makes and sells hats for 5 ready money,' with a figure of a hat subjoined ; but...The first he showed it to thought the word ' hatter' needless, because followed by the words ' makes hats,' which showed 10 he was a hatter. It was struck... | |
 | Daniel Harvey Hill - 1906 - 426 Seiten
...time, was 25 about to open a shop for himself. His first con- . cern was to have a handsome signboard, with a proper inscription. He composed it in these...' John Thompson, Hatter, makes and sells hats for 5 ready money,' with a figure of a hat subjoined ; but he thought he would submit it to his friends... | |
 | John Hampden Hazelton - 1906 - 676 Seiten
...subjoined. but he thought he would submit it to his friends for their amendments. the first he shewed it to thought the word " Hatter" tautologous, because followed by the words " makes hats " which shew he was a Hatter. it was struck out. the next observed that the word "makes" might as well be omitted,... | |
 | George Edwin Rines - 1911 - 674 Seiten
...new sign, and before putting it up submitted it to the criticism of his friends. It read originally, "John Thompson, hatter, makes and sells hats for ready money," with a picture of a hat at the end. One friend objected to one clause as useless, and another to another,... | |
 | Carl Holliday - 1912 - 334 Seiten
...his time, was about to open shop for himself. His first concern was to have a handsome sign-board, with a proper inscription. He composed it in these...followed by the words ' makes hats,' which showed he was a hatter. It was struck out. The next observed that the word ' makes ' might as well be omitted,... | |
 | Mary Edwards Calhoun, Emma Leonora MacAlarney - 1915 - 670 Seiten
...handsome sign-board, with a proper inscrip tion. He composed it in these words, ' John Thompson, Hattet makes and sells hats for ready money,' with a figure of a hat sub joined ; but he thought he would submit it to his friends for thei amendments. The first he showed... | |
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When I was a journeyman printer, one of my companions, an apprentice hatter, having served out his time, was about to open shop for himself. His first concern was to have a handsome signboard, with a proper inscription. He composed it in these words,... 
