 | Benjamin Franklin - American prose literature - 1779 - 610 pages
...collected, at an auction of merchants goods. The hour of the fale not being come, they were converfing en the badnefs of the times ; and one of the company...Pray, Father Abraham, what think ' you of the times ? Will not thefe heavy taxes * quite ruin the country ? How (hall we ever be [* Dr. Franklin, as I... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1780 - 614 pages
...collected at an auction of merchants goods. The hour of the falc not being come, they were cbnverfing on the badnefs of the times ; and one of the company...Pray, Father Abraham, what think you of the times ? Will not thefe heavy taxes quite ruin the country ? How fhall we ever be able to pay them ? What... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - Books - 1780 - 612 pages
...merchants goods. The 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...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 pay them ? What... | |
 | 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 pay them ? What... | |
 | James Anderson - Scotland - 1791 - 422 pages
...where a great number of people were collefted at an VOL. I, Q of merchants goods. The hour of fale not being come, they were converfing on the badnefs...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 them ? What wdSffiTyou... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1792 - 494 pages
...auction of merchants goods. The hour of 'the (ale not beingcome, tiicy were converting; on the badndi uf the times ; and one of the company called to a plain, clean oM man, with whitie locki. ' Pray, father Abraham, what think you of the times ? Will not thofe heavy... | |
 | Chapbooks - 1796 - 34 pages
...an auction of merchants' 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 ? Will not those, heavy taxes quite ruin the country? How shall we t>e ever able to pay them? What... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1797 - 516 pages
...where a great number of people were collected at an auflion of merchants' goods. The hour of the fale not being come, they were converfing on the badnefs...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 pay them ? What would... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1802 - 348 pages
...where a great number of people were collected at an auction of merchant's goods. The hour of the fale not being come, they were converfing on the badnefs...and one of the company called to a plain, clean old old man, with white locks, " Pray, father, Abraham, what think you of the times ? Will not thefe heavy... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American literature - 1804 - 78 pages
...come.|Jigr. (Wei K •e&Byersuig on the bad 2 fKELiMiNARY ADDRESS Frtmklim. ,•*•«>->«• ness of the times; and one of the company called to a plain,...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 them ? What would... | |
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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,... 
