 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...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... | |
 | United States - 1826 - 422 pages
...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... | |
 | United States - 1826 - 440 pages
...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 - Ethics - 1830 - 336 pages
...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 - United States - 1834 - 682 pages
...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 - Portrait prints - 1835 - 362 pages
...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1848 - 676 pages
...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...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... | |
 | John Stanley (printer.) - Statesmen - 1849 - 178 pages
...folding and stitching pamphlets, tending shop, purchasing old linen rag» for the paper-makers, &c. We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and...time bread and milk, (no tea), and I ate it out of a penny earthern porringer, with a pewter spoon. But mark how luxury will enter families, and make a... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1855 - 522 pages
...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...the cheapest. For instance, my breakfast was for a longtime bread and milk (no tea), and I ate it out of a twopenny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon.... | |
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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. 
