 | John Lawson Stoddard - Anthologies - 1913 - 494 pages
...Number of people were collected at a Vendue of Merchant Goods. The Hour of Sale not being come, they were conversing on the Badness of the Times, and one of the Company call'd to a plain, clean old Man, with white Locks, " Pray, Father Abraham, what think you of the Times?... | |
 | Readers - 1914 - 304 pages
...number of people were collected at a vendue of merchant's goods. The hour of sale not being come, they were conversing on the badness of the times; and one...Pray, Father Abraham, what think you of the times ? Won't these heavy taxes quite ruin the country? How shall -we ever be able to pay them ? What would... | |
 | Mary Edwards Calhoun, Emma Leonora MacAlarney - American literature - 1915 - 670 pages
...of remembering and reading those wise sentences, I have sometimes quoted myself with great gravity. what think you of the times ? Will not these heavy...be able to pay them ? What would you advise us to do? " Father Abraham stood up and replied, " If you would have my advice, I will give it to you in... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - American prose literature - 1916 - 798 pages
...Number of People were collected at a Vendue of Merchant Goods. The Hour of Sale not being come, they were conversing on the Badness of the Times, and one of the Company call'd to a plain clean old Man, with white Locks, "Pray, Father Abraham, what think you of the Times... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - American prose literature - 1916 - 760 pages
...Number of People were collected at a Vendue of Merchant Goods. The Hour of Sale not being come, they were conversing on the Badness of the Times, and one of the Company call'd to a plain clean old Man, with white Locks, "Pray, Father Abraham, what think you of the Times... | |
 | Edwin Du Bois Shurter - Elocution - 1917 - 328 pages
...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...ever be able to pay them? What would you advise us to do?" Father Abraham stood up and replied: "If you would have my advice, I will give it to you in short;... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - Readers - 1920 - 668 pages
...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...locks: "Pray, Father Abraham, what think you of the 10 times? Will not these heavy taxes quite ruin the country? How shall we ever be able to pay them?... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - Literature - 1920 - 668 pages
...called to a plain, clean old man, with white locks: "Pray, Father Abraham, what think you of the w times? Will not these heavy taxes quite ruin the country?...ever be able to pay them? What would you advise us to do?" Father Abraham stood up and replied: "If you would have my advice, I will give it to you in short;... | |
 | William Harris Elson - 1921 - 552 pages
...others. Judge, then, how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am going to relate to you. the times; and one of the company called to a plain,...How shall we ever be able to pay them? What would 5 you advise us to do?" Father Abraham stood up and replied: "If you would have my advice, I will give... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1921 - 280 pages
...plain, clean old man with white locks, " Pray, Father Abraham, what think you of the times ? Won't these heavy taxes quite ruin the country? How shall we ever be able to pay them t What would you advise us to 1 " Father Abraham stood up and replied : " If you would 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... 
