 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1901 - 296 pages
...folding and stitching pamphlets, tending shop, purchasing old linen rags for the paper-makers, 8tc. We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and...furniture of the cheapest. For instance, my breakfast for a long time was bread and milk (no tea), and I eat it out of a twopenny earthen porringer with... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - America - 1901 - 714 pages
...folding and stitching pamphlets, tending shop, purchasing old linen rags for the paper-makers, etc., etc. We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and simple, our furniture «f the cheapest. For instance, my breakfast was a long time bread and milk (no tea), and I ate it... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1905 - 238 pages
...folding and stitching pamphlets, tending shop, purchasing old linen rags for the paper makers, etc., etc. We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and...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... | |
 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - Anthologies - 1910 - 330 pages
...folding and stitching pamphlets, tending shop, purchasing old linen rags for the paper-makers, etc., etc. We kept no idle servants; our table was plain and...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1905 - 354 pages
...folding and stitching pamphlets, tending shop, purchasing old linen rags for the papermakers, etc., etc. We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1906 - 382 pages
...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...spoon. But mark how luxury will enter families, and maSe a progress, in spite of principle : being called one morning to breakfast, I found it in a china... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1906 - 128 pages
...folding and stitching pamphlets, tending shop, purchasing old linen rags for the paper makers, etc., etc. We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and...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... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1906 - 124 pages
...folding and stitching pamphlets, tending shop, purchasing old linen rags for the paper makers, etc., etc. We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and...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... | |
 | Readers - 1907 - 264 pages
...life when he was trying to make his way in business : " My breakfast was a long time bread and milk, and I ate it out of a two-penny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon ; but one morning I found it in a china bowl with a spoon of silver ! They had been bought for me by my wife,... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1908 - 480 pages
...folding and stitching pamphlets, tending shop, purchasing old linen rags for the paper makers, etc., etc. We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and...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,... | |
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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. 
