 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 556 pages
...furniture of the cheapest. For instance, my breakfast was for a long time bread and milk, (no tea) and I ate it out of a twopenny earthen porringer,...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... | |
 | Great Britain - 1818 - 708 pages
...furniture of the cheapest. For instance, my breakfast was for a long time bread and milk, (no tea,) and I ate it out of a two-penny earthen porringer,...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... | |
 | Great Britain - 1818 - 590 pages
...furniture of the cheapest. For instance, my breakfast was for a long time bread and milk, (no tea,) and I ate it out of a two-penny earthen porringer,...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... | |
 | 1818 - 588 pages
...furniture of the cheapest. For instance, my breakfast was for a long time bread and milk, (no tea) and I ate it out of a twopenny earthen porringer,...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 558 pages
...furniture of the cheapest. For instance, my breakfast was for a long time bread and milk, (no tea) and I ate it out of a twopenny earthen porringer,...principle; being called one morning to breakfast, 1 found it in a china bowl, with a spoon of silver. •They had been bought for me without my knowledge... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...instance, my breakfast was for a long time bread and milk, (no tea) and I ate it out of a two penny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon : but mark...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... | |
 | United States - 1826 - 440 pages
...plain and simple, and his furniture homely. His breakfast, for instance, was bread and milk ; and he ate it out of a twopenny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon, indulging himself with no tea. But one morning our philosopher discovered a china bowl with a silver... | |
 | United States - 1826 - 422 pages
...plain and simple, and his furniture homely. His breakfast, for instance, was bread and milk ; and he ate it out of a twopenny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon, indulging himself with no tea. But one morning our philosopher discovered a china bowl with a silver... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 pages
...instance, my breakfast was for a long time bread anc ..liik, (no tea) and I ate it out of a two penny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon: but mark how...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1834 - 682 pages
...our furniture of the cheapest For instance, my breakfast was for a long time bread and milk, (no ten) and I ate it out of a twopenny earthen porringer,...how luxury will enter families, and make a progress m spite of principle ; being called one morning to breakfast, I found it in a china bowl, with a spoon... | |
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We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and simple, our furniture of the cheapest. For instance, my breakfast was a long time bread and milk (no tea), and I ate it out of a two-penny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon. 
