 | Benjamin Franklin - 1888 - 250 trang
...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1888 - 330 trang
...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-andtwenty shillings,1 for which she had no other excuse or apology to make, but that she thought... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1890 - 322 trang
...bread and milk (no tea), and I ate it out of a twopenny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon. 15. " But mark how luxury will enter families and make a...for 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 - 1891 - 142 trang
...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...without my knowledge by my wife, and had cost her the 57 enormous sum of three-and-twenty shillings, for which she had no other excuse or apology to make,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Julian Willis Abernethy - 1892 - 200 trang
...instance, my breakfast was 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...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1895 - 310 trang
...instance, my breakfast was for a long time breadand-milk (no tea), and I ate it out of a two-penny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon. But mark how luxury...knowledge by my wife, and had cost her the enormous sum of three-aud-twenty shillings; for which she had no other excuse or apology to make, but that she thought... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1896 - 130 trang
...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... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 464 trang
...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... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - 1896 - 500 trang
...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...with a spoon of silver ! They had been bought for \ae without my knowledge by my wife, and had cost her the enormous sum of thre« and twenty shillings;... | |
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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... 
