 At his table he liked to have as often as he could some sensible friend or neighbor to converse with, and always took care to start some ingenious or useful topic for discourse, which might tend to improve the minds of his children. By this means he turned...  Success in life, a book for young men - Page 310by Success - 1851 - 332 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1818 - 566 pages
...some sensible friend or neighbour to converse with, and always took care to start some ingenious or useful topic for discourse which might tend to improve...taken of what related to the victuals on the table ; whether it was well or ill dressed, in or out of season, of good or bad flavor, preferable or inferior... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 556 pages
...some sensible friend or neighbor to converse with, and always took care to start some ingenious or useful topic for discourse, which might tend to improve...of life; and little or no notice was ever taken of wlmt related to the victuals on the table, whether it was well t>r ill dressed, in or out of season,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 558 pages
...some sensible friend or neighbor to converse with, and always took care to start some ingenious or useful topic for discourse, which might tend to improve...our attention to what was good, just, and prudent, iu the conduct of life; and little or no notice was ever taken of what related to the victuals on the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1834 - 682 pages
...some sensible friend or neighbour to converse with, and always took care to start some ingenious or of the Fable of the Bee?, victualson the table, whether it was well or ill dressed, in or out of season, of good or bad flavour,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1840 - 666 pages
...some sensible friend or neighbour to converse with, and always took care to start some ingenious or useful topic for discourse, which might tend to improve...taken of what related to the victuals on the table; whether it was well or ill dressed, in or out of season, of good or bad flavor, preferable or inferior... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 pages
...some sensible friend or neighbour to converse with, and always took care to start some ingenious or useful topic for discourse, which might tend to improve...taken of what related to the victuals on the table ; whether it was well or ill dressed, in or out of season, of good or bad flavor, preferable or inferior... | |
 | Heredity - 1844 - 220 pages
...some sensible friend or neighbor to converse with, and always took care to start some ingenious or useful topic for discourse, which might tend to improve...taken of what related to the victuals on the table ; whether it was well or ill dressed, in or out of season, of good or bad flavor, preferable to this... | |
 | Orson Squire Fowler - Eugenics - 1847 - 322 pages
...some sensible friend or neighbor to converse with, and always took care to start some ingenious or useful topic for discourse, which might tend to improve...taken of what related to the victuals on the table ; whether it was well or ill dressed, in or out of season, of good or bad flavor, preferable to this... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1848 - 676 pages
...some sensible friend or neighbour to converse with, and always took care to start some ingenious or useful topic for discourse, which might tend to improve...taken of what related to the victuals on the table ; whether it was well or ill dressed, in or out of season, of good or bad flavor, preferable or inferior... | |
 | Orson Squire Fowler - Heredity - 1848 - 310 pages
...some sensible friend or neighbor to converse with, and always took care to start some ingenious or useful topic for discourse, which might tend to improve...ever taken of what related to the victuals on the bible ; whether it was well or ill dressed, in or out of season, of good or bad flavor, preferable... | |
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