 I found it in a china bowl, with a spoon of silver! They had been bought for me without my knowledge by my wife, and had cost her the enormous sum of threeand-twenty shillings, for which she had no other excuse or apology to make but that she thought...  Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin - Page 200by James Parton - 1864 - 710 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 558 pages
...bought for me without my 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...appearance of plate and china in our house, which afterwards, in a course of years, as our wealth increased, augmented gradually to several hundred pounds... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 556 pages
...and had cost her the enormous sum of three and twenty shillings; for which she had no other excuse nr apology to make, but that she thought her husband...appearance of plate and china in our house, which afterwards, in a course of years, as our wealth increased, augmented gradually to several hundred pounds... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1818 - 596 pages
...bought for me without my 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...silver spoon and china bowl as well as any of his neighbours.' (P. 65.) Dr. Franklin appears to have early conceived an aversion to the forms of public... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 pages
...bought for me without my 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...silver spoon and China bowl as well as any of his neighbours. This was the first appearance of plate and china in our house, which afterwards, in course... | |
 | 1818 - 708 pages
...bought for me, without my 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...silver spoon and china bowl as well as any of his neighbours. This was the first appearance of plate and china in our house, which afterwards, in a course... | |
 | 1818 - 590 pages
...bought for me, without my 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...husband deserved a silver spoon and china bowl as weH as any of his neighbours. This was the first appearance of plate and china in our house, which... | |
 | 1818 - 588 pages
...bought for me without my 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...make, but that she thought her husband deserved a silver-spoon and china-bowl, as well as any of his neighbours. This was the first appearance of plate... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 pages
...enormous sum of three and twenty shillings; for which she had no other excuse or apology to VOL. I. I make, but that she thought her husband deserved a silver spoon and China bowl as well as any of his neighbours. This was the first appearance of plate and China in our house, which afterwards, in a course... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 pages
...bought for me, without my 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...spoon and china bowl as well as any of his neighbors.* SECTION III. His project of arriving at moral perfection: catalogue and illustrations of the moral... | |
 | 1826 - 440 pages
...were bought for him, without his knowledge, by Mrs Franklin, who had only the sound apology to make, that she thought her husband deserved a silver spoon and china bowl as well as any of his neighbours ! This, he says, was the first appearance of plate and china in his house. In 1732 he published... | |
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