 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 three-and-twenty shillings, for which she had no other excuse or apology to make, but that she thought...  Benjamin Franklin: His Life - Page 103by Benjamin Franklin - 1888 - 311 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 558 pages
...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 to make,...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 - United States - 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Philosophers - 1818 - 566 pages
...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 to make,...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... | |
 | Great Britain - 1818 - 708 pages
...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 to make,...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... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1818 - 596 pages
...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 to make,...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... | |
 | Great Britain - 1818 - 590 pages
...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 to make,...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 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... | |
 | 1818 - 588 pages
...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 to 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... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...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 to make,...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... | |
 | United States - 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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