 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,...  Select Pieces - Page 2by Benjamin Franklin - 1804 - 59 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Readers - 1914 - 304 pages
...a vendue of merchant's 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,...Pray, Father Abraham, what think you of the times ? Won't these heavy taxes quite ruin the country? How shall -we ever be able to pay them ? What would... | |
 | Mary Edwards Calhoun, Emma Leonora MacAlarney - American literature - 1915 - 670 pages
...of remembering and reading those wise sentences, I have sometimes quoted myself with great gravity. what think you of the times ? Will not these heavy taxes quite ruin the country? How shall we ever be able to pay them ? What would you advise us to do? " Father Abraham stood up and replied, "... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - American prose literature - 1916 - 760 pages
...Sale not being come, they were conversing on the Badness of the Times, and one of the Company call'd to a plain clean old Man, with white Locks, "Pray, Father Abraham, what think you of the Times ? Won't these heavy Taxes quite ruin the Country ? How shall we be ever able to pay them ? What would... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - American prose literature - 1916 - 798 pages
...Sale not being come, they were conversing on the Badness of the Times, and one of the Company call'd to a plain clean old Man, with white Locks, "Pray, Father Abraham, what think you of the Times ? Won't these heavy Taxes quite ruin the Country ? How shall we be ever able to pay them ? What would... | |
 | Edwin Du Bois Shurter - Elocution - 1917 - 328 pages
...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,...these heavy taxes quite ruin the country? How shall we ever be able to pay them? What would you advise us to do?" Father Abraham stood up and replied: "If... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - Readers - 1920 - 668 pages
...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...locks: "Pray, Father Abraham, what think you of the 10 times? Will not these heavy taxes quite ruin the country? How shall we ever be able to pay them?... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards - American literature - 1920 - 424 pages
...a plain clean old Man, with white Locks, "Pray, Father Abraham, what think you of the Times? Won't these heavy Taxes quite ruin the Country ? How shall...to pay them ? What would you advise us to ?" Father A braham stood up, and reply'd, "If you'd have my Advice, I'll give it you in short, for A Word to... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - Literature - 1920 - 668 pages
...called to a plain, clean old man, with white locks: "Pray, Father Abraham, what think you of the w times? Will not these heavy taxes quite ruin the country? How shall we ever be able to pay them? What would you advise us to do?" Father Abraham stood up and replied: "If... | |
 | William Harris Elson - 1921 - 552 pages
...others. Judge, then, how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am going to relate to you. the times; and one of the company called to a plain,...these heavy taxes quite ruin the country? How shall we ever be able to pay them? What would 5 you advise us to do?" Father Abraham stood up and replied: "If... | |
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