 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! They had been bought for me without my knowledge by my wife, and had cost her...  Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged - Page 29edited by - 1818Full view - About this book
 | Benjamin Franklin - Philosophers - 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...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 of years,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 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...silver spoon and china bowl as well as any of his neighbors. This was the first appearance of plate and china in our house, which afterwards, in a course... | |
 | 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...silver spoon and china bowl as well as any of his neighbors. This was the first appearance of plate and china in our house, which afterwards, in a course... | |
 | Great Britain - 1818 - 708 pages
...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, 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... | |
 | Great Britain - 1818 - 590 pages
...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, 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 - Statesmen - 1818 - 566 pages
...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 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 VOL. I. I make, but that... | |
 | 1818 - 588 pages
...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 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, 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... | |
 | United States - 1826 - 422 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 his... | |
 | 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 his... | |
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