 | Sydney George Fisher - 1898 - 440 pàgines
...instance, my breakfast was for a long time bread and milk (no tea), and I ate it out of a twopenny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon. But mark how luxury...for which she had no other excuse or apology to make but that she thought her husband deserved a silver spoon and china bowl as well as any of his neighbors."... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - 1899 - 554 pàgines
...instance, my breakfast was a long time bread and milk (no tea), and I ate it out of a twopenny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon. But mark how luxury...and make a progress, in spite of principle : being call'd one morning to breakfast, I found it in a China bowl, with a spoon of silver! They had been... | |
 | 1899 - 1010 pàgines
...instance, my breakfast was a long time bread and milk (no tea), and I ate it out of a twopenny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon. But mark how luxury...and make a progress, in spite of principle: being call'd one morning to breakfast, I found it in a China bowl, with a spoon of silver! They had been... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1899 - 204 pàgines
...instance, my breakfast was a long time bread and milk (no tea), and I ate it out of a twopenny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon. But mark how luxury...and make a progress, in spite of principle : being call'd one morning to breakfast, I found it in a china bowl, with a spoon of silver ! They had been... | |
 | Paul Elmer More More - 1900 - 160 pàgines
...But mark," he adds, " how luxuries will enter families and make a progress despite of principles : being called one morning to breakfast, I found it...knowledge by my wife, and had cost her the enormous sum of twenty-three shillings, for which she had no other excuse or apology to make but that she thought her... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1901 - 336 pàgines
...instance, my breakfast was a long time bread and milk (no tea), and I ate it out of a twopenny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon. " But mark how luxury...enormous sum of three and twenty shillings, for which ehe had no other excuse or apology to make but that she thought Tier husband deserved a silver spoon... | |
 | 1901 - 502 pàgines
...instance, my breakfast was a long time bread and milk (no tea), and I ate it out of a twopenny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon. But mark how luxury...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... | |
 | William Peterfield Trent, Benjamin Willis Wells - 1901 - 362 pàgines
...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. But mark how luxury...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 - 1901 - 296 pàgines
...(no tea), and I eat it out of a twopenny earthen porringer with a pewter spoon. But mark how luxuries will enter families and make a progress in spite of...knowledge by my wife, and had cost her the enormous sum of twenty-three shillings, for which she had no other excuse or apology to make but that she thought her... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1901 - 714 pàgines
...being call'd one morning to breakfast, I found it in a China bowl, with No. 8a] Society in Virginia 235 a spoon of silver ! They had been bought for me without...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... | |
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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 twopenny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon. But mark how luxury will... 
