 | Mason Locke Weems - Statesmen - 1822 - 272 pages
...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...began to buy extravagantly. I found the good man had" thoroug.b.ly studied my Almanacs, and digested all I had dropt on those topics during the course of... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...surely rap your knuckles,' as Poor Richard says." 21 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 those topics during the course of twenty-five years. 22... | |
 | United States - 1826 - 440 pages
...not hear Reason, she will surely rap your knuckles.' " Thus the old gentleman ended his harangue. The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately...auction opened, and they began to buy extravagantly, notwithstanding all his cautions, and their own fear of taxes. I found the good man had thoroughly... | |
 | United States - 1826 - 422 pages
...she will surely rap your knuckles." " Thus the old gentleman ended his harangue. The people lieard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practised...auction opened, and they began to buy extravagantly, notwithsjtanding all his cautions, and their own fear of taxes. I found the good man had thoroughly... | |
 | Literature - 1826 - 450 pages
...approved the doctrine, and immediately practifed the contrary, juft as if it had been a common fermon ; for the auction opened, and they began to buy extravagantly,— I found the good man. had thoroughly ftudied my Almanacks, and digefied all I had dropt on thofe topics during the courfe of twenty-five... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 pages
...surely rap your knuckles,' as Poor Richard says." 21 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 those topics during the course of twenty-five years. 22... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1831 - 310 pages
...hear Reason, she will surely rap your knuckles.' " Thus the old gentleman ended his harrangue. The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately...auction opened, and they began to buy extravagantly, notwithstanding all his cautions, and their own fear of taxes. I found the good man had thoroughly... | |
 | Working class - 1831 - 186 pages
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 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1831 - 314 pages
...hear Reason, she will surely rap your knuckles.'' " Thus the old gentleman ended his harrangue. The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practised the contrary, just as if it hnd heen a common sermon ; for the auction opened, and they hegan to huy extravagantly, notwithstanding... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1831 - 290 pages
...will surely rap your knuckles," as Poor Richard says.' Tbus the old gentleman ended his harangue. The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, — and immediately practised the contrary, juit as if « had heen a common sermon; for the auction opened, and they began to buy extravagantly.... | |
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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. 
