 | John Bach McMaster - Biography & Autobiography - 1887 - 316 pages
...will surely rap your knuckles, as Poor Richard says." Thus the old gentleman ended his harangue. The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately...extravagantly. I found the good man had thoroughly studied my almanacs, and digested all I had dropped on these topics during the course of twenty-five years. The... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 pages
...will surely rap your knuckles, as Poor Richard says." Thus the old gentleman ended his harangue. The people heard it and approved the doctrine; and immediately...extravagantly. I found the good man had thoroughly studied my Almanacs, and digested all I had dropped on these topics during the course of twenty-five years. The... | |
 | American literature - 1891 - 508 pages
...will not hear reason, she 'II surely rap your knuckles. Thus the old gentleman ended his harangue. The people heard it, and approved the doctrine; and immediately...contrary, just as if it had been a common sermon. For the vendue opened, and they began to buy extravagantly, notwithstanding all his cautions, and their own... | |
 | BRANDER MATTHEWS - 1892
...maxims were all massed together, Franklin tells us that "thus the old gentleman ended his harangue. The people heard it and approved the doctrine; and immediately...contrary, just as if it had been a common sermon." 1890 THREE AMERICAN ESSAYISTS -•HOEVER wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse,... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 518 pages
...will surely rap your knuckles,' as Poor Richard says." Thus the old gentleman ended his harangue. The people heard it and approved the doctrine; and immediately practised the contrary, jut u if it had been a common sermon; for the «action opened and they began to bay extravagantly.... | |
 | Marshman William Hazen - Elocution - 1895 - 452 pages
...gentleman ended his harangue. The people heard it and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary, just as if it had been a common sermon...auction opened and they began to buy extravagantly. 1. Maintains, fineries, knick-knacks, straitening, contempt, superfluities, sneaking, veracity, deprives,... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 464 pages
...gentleman ended his harangue. The people heard it and approved the doctrine; and immediately practiced the contrary, just as if it had been a common sermon;...thoroughly studied my Almanacks, and digested all I had dropped on these topics during the course of twentyfive years. The frequent mention he made of me must... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Readers - 1896 - 220 pages
...further that, If you will not hear Reason, she will surely rap your knuckles, as Poor Richard says." just as if it had been a common sermon ; for the auction...extravagantly. I found the good man had thoroughly studied my almanacs, and digested all I had dropped on these topics during the course of twenty-five years. The... | |
 | Marshman William Hazen - Readers - 1895 - 450 pages
...gentleman ended his harangue. The people heard it and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary, just as if it had been a common sermon...auction opened and they began to buy extravagantly. 1. Maintains, fineries, knick-knacks, straitening, contempt, superfluities, sneaking, veracity, deprives,... | |
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Thus the old gentleman ended his harangue. The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practised the contrary, just as if it had been a common sermon ; for 'the auction opened, and they began to buy extravagantly. 
