 | 1818 - 590 str.
...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...been bought for me, without my knowledge, by my wife, and had cost her the enormous sum of three- and-twenty shillings ; for which she had no other excuse... | |
 | 1818 - 708 str.
...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...been bought for me, without my knowledge, by my wife, and had cost her the enormous sum of three- and-twenty shillings ; for which she had no other excuse... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 str.
...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...been bought for me without my knowledge by my wife, and had cost her the enormous sum of three and twenty shillings ; for which she had no other excuse... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1818 - 596 str.
...proverb that says, "' He that would thrive Must ask his wife :" (notea-,) 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 sirrer. They had been bought for me without my knowledge by my wife, and had cost her the enormous... | |
 | 1818 - 588 str.
...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...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 - 1818 - 558 str.
...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...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 - 1824 - 308 str.
...our table was plain and simple, our furniture of the cheapest. 9 For instance, my breakfast was for a long time bread and milk, (no tea) and I ate it...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 sum... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 336 str.
...simple, our furniture of the cheapest. 9 For instance, my breakfast was for a long time bread anc ..liik, (no tea) and I ate it out of a two penny earthen porringer,...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 sum... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 682 str.
...instance, my breakfast was for a long time bread and milk, (no ten) and I ate it out of a twopenny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon : but mark...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... | |
 | James Herring, James Barton Longacre - 1835 - 442 str.
...instance, my breakfast was for a long time bread and milk, (no tea) and I ate it out of a two-penny porringer, with a pewter spoon ; but mark how luxury...been bought for me without my knowledge, by my wife, and had cost her the enormous sum of three and twenty shillings ; for which she had no other excuse... | |
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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... 
