 | Gleaner - 1805 - Страниц: 426
...an auction of merchants' goods. The hour of sale hot being come, they were conversing on the badness of the times ; and one of the company called to a...Pray, father Abraham, what think you of the times? will not those heavy taxes quite ruin the country ? How shall we be ever able to pay them ? What would... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1806 - Страниц: 590
...money-hunters. There is certainly something very bewitching in the 2 c 2 pursuit were conversing on the badness of the times ; and one of the company called to a...Pray, Father Abraham, 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1806 - Страниц: 586
...preface, which his counr try men reail with much avidity and profit. BV 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 ever be able to pay them? What would... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - Страниц: 310
...auction of merchant's 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...Pray, father Abraham, what think you of the times? Will not those heavy taxes quite ruin th« VOL. vi. » country ? How shall we be ever able to pay them... | |
 | 1812 - Страниц: 314
...auction of merchant's goods. The hour of sale not being come, they were conversing on the bad 1 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... | |
 | James Plumptre - 1812 - Страниц: 424
...an auction 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 clean Old Man, with white locks, Pray, neighbour Wiseman, what think you of the times ? Will not these heavy taxes quite ruin the country... | |
 | George Miller - 1813 - Страниц: 638
...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, clean, ~'d man with white locks, " Pray, Father Abraham, •what think you of the times ? Won't these heavy... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1819 - Страниц: 520
...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 with 1 The origin and intent of this popular piece is fully explained by Dr. Franklin in the Memoirs of... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1820 - Страниц: 360
...anction 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...Pray, father Abraham, 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... | |
 | 1821 - Страниц: 156
...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...Pray, Father Abraham, what think you of the times ? Will not those heavy taxes quite ruin the country ? How shall we ever be able to pay them ? What... | |
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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,... 
