 | Benjamin Franklin - American prose literature - 1779 - 610 pages
...hour of the fale not being come, they were converfing en the badnefs of the times ; and one of the company called to a plain, clean Old Man, with white locks, * Pray, Father Abraham, what think ' you of the times ? Will not thefe heavy taxes * quite ruin the country ? How (hall we ever be [*... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - Books - 1780 - 612 pages
...hour of the falc not being come, they were converfing on the badncfs of the times j and one of the company called to a plain, clean Old Man, with white locks, " Pray, Father Abraham, what think you of the times ? Will not thefe heavy taxes quite ruin the country ? How (hall we ever be able to... | |
 | several hands - 1780 - 612 pages
...hour of the fa le not being come, they were converfing on the badnefs of the times ; and one of the company called to a plain, clean Old Man, with white locks, " Pray, Father Abraham, what think you of the times I Will not thefe heavy taxes quite ruin the country ? How fhall we ever be able to... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1780 - 614 pages
...fale not being come, they were cbnveffing on the badnefs of the times ; and one of the com- . pany called to a plain, clean Old Man, with white locks, " Pray, Father Abraham, what think you of the times ? Will not thefe heavy taxes quite ruin the country ? How (hall we ever be able to... | |
 | James Anderson - Scotland - 1791 - 422 pages
...The hour of fale not being come, they were converfing on the badnefs of the times ; and one of the company called to a plain, clean, old man, with white locks, " Pray, father Abraham, what think you of the times ? Won't thefe heavy taxes quite ruin the country ? How (hall \ve be ever able to pay... | |
 | Chapbooks - 1796 - 34 pages
...goods. The hour of sale not being come, they were conversing on the badness of the times; and one of the company called to a plain, clean old man, with white locks, ' Pray, father Abraham, what think you of the times ? Will not those, heavy taxes quite ruin the country? How shall we t>e ever able to... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1797 - 516 pages
...hour of the fale not being come, they were converfing on the badnefs of the times ; and one of the company called to a plain, clean old man, with white locks, ' Pray, father Abraham, what think you of the times? Will not thofe heavy taxes quite ruin the country ? how fhall we be ever able to... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American literature - 1804 - 78 pages
...•e&Byersuig on the bad 2 fKELiMiNARY ADDRESS Frtmklim. ,•*•«>->«• ness of the times; and one of the company called to a plain, clean, old man, with white locks, ' Pray, father Abraham, what think you of the times? Will not these heavy taxes quite ruin the country? How shall we be ever able to pay... | |
 | Gleaner - 1805 - 426 pages
...The hour of sale hot being come, they were conversing on the badness of the times ; and one of the company called to a plain, clean old man, with white locks, ' Pray, father Abraham, what think you of the times? will not those heavy taxes quite ruin the country ? How shall we be ever able to... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1806 - 586 pages
...reail with much avidity and profit. BV were conversing on the badness of the times; and one of the company called to a plain clean old man, with white locks, " Pray, Father Abraham, what think you of the times ? Will not those heavy taxes quite ruin the country? How shall we ever be able to... | |
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I stopped my horse lately where a great number of people were collected at an auction of merchants' goods. The hour of the sale not being come, they were conversing on the badness of the times; and one of the company called to a plain, clean old man,... 
