 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 pages
...great number of people were collected at an auction of merchant's goods. The hour of sale not being come, they were conversing on the badness of the times...with white locks, " Pray, father Abraham, what think ye of the times ? Wont these heavy taxes quite ruin the country ? How shall we ever be able to pay... | |
 | Joseph Gostwick - 1856 - 338 pages
...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...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 would you advise... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 650 pages
...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...Pray, father Abraham, what think you of the times J Will not those heavy taxes quite ruin the country 1 how shall we bo ever able to pay them 7 What... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1856 - 592 pages
...auction of merchants' goods. Tlie hour of the sale not being come, they were conversing on the badnees of the times ; and one of the company called to a...Father Abraham, what think you of the times ? Will not these heavy taxes quite ruin the country t How shall we ever be able to pay them? What would you advise... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 456 pages
...to a plain, clean, old man, with white locks, " Pray, father Abraham, what think you of the times 1 Will not those heavy taxes quite ruin the country ? how shall we bo ever able to pay them ? What would you advise us to ?" Father Abraham stood up, and replied, " If... | |
 | William Chambers - 1858 - 378 pages
...great number of people were collected at an auction of merchant's goods. The hour of sale not being come, they were conversing on the badness of the times...with white locks : "Pray, Father Abraham, what think ye of the times ? Won't these heavy taxes quite ruin the country ? How shall we be ever able to pay... | |
 | Ferdinand E. A. Gasc - 1858 - 362 pages
...auction of merchants' goods.7 The hour of sale not being come, they were conversing on the badness8 of the times ; and one of the company called to a plain, clean, old man, with white locks,9 " Pray, 1 ' The armistice ended.' and other such functionaries, have * qu'un boulet land far... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 812 pages
...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...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 would you advise... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1859 - 482 pages
...great number of people were collected at an auction of merchant's goods. The hour of the sale not being come, they were conversing on the badness of the times...called to a plain, clean, old man, with white locks : " Fray, Father Abraham, what think you of the times ? "Will not these heavy taxes quite ruin the... | |
 | Ferdinand E A. Gasc - 1860 - 360 pages
...cative). The English public criers, lui dit. father Abraham, what think ye of the times I1 Won't these heavy taxes quite ruin the country ? How shall -we be ever able to pay them 1 What would you advise us to ?" Father Abraham stood up, and replied, — " If you'd have my advice,... | |
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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,... 
