 | Benjamin Franklin - Philosophers - 1818 - 566 pages
...progress in spite of principle; being called one morning to breakfast, I found it in a China bowl, with a spoon of silver ! They had been bought for...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 - Statesmen - 1818 - 566 pages
...progress in spite of principle; being called one morning to breakfast, I found it in a China bowl, with a spoon of silver. They had been bought for me...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 556 pages
...progress in spite of principle; being called one morning to breakfast, I found it in a china bowl, with a spoon of silver. They had been bought for me...twenty shillings; for which she had no other excuse nr apology to make, but that she thought her husband deserved a silver spoon and china bowl as well... | |
 | Great Britain - 1818 - 708 pages
...progress in spite of principle ; being called one morning to breakfast, I found it in a china bowl, with a spoon of silver. They had been bought for me,...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... | |
 | Great Britain - 1818 - 590 pages
...progress in spite of principle; being called one morning to breakfast, I found it in a china bowl, with a spoon of silver. They had been bought for me,...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... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1818 - 596 pages
...principle; being called one morning to breakfast, I found it in a china bowl, with a spoon of sirrer. 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... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...principle ; being called one morning to breakfast, I found it in a china bowl, with a spoon of silver. 10 They had been bought for me, without my knowledge,...make, but that she thought her husband deserved a silver spoon and china bowl as well as any of his neighbors.* SECTION III. His project of arriving... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 pages
...principle ; being called one morning to breakfast, I found it in a china bowl, with a spoon of silver. 10 They had been bought for me, without my knowledge,...twenty shillings ; for which she had no other excuse or apol ogy to make, but that she thought her husbajid deserved a silver spoon and china bowl as well... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1834 - 682 pages
...being called one morning to breakfast, I found it in a china bowl, with a spoon of silver. They liad been bought for me without my knowledge by my wife,...of three and twenty shillings ; for which she had DO other excuse or apology to make, but that she thought her husband deserved a silver spoon and china... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1840 - 668 pages
...progress, in spite of principle ; being called one morning to breakfast, I found it in a China bowl, with a spoon of silver! They had been bought for me...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... | |
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But mark how luxury will enter families, and make a progress, in spite of principle : being called one morning to breakfast, I found it in a China bowl, with a spoon of silver! 
