| Benjamin Franklin - 1909 - 432 Seiten
...fishing or shooting; a book, indeed, sometimes debauch'd me from my work, but that was seldom, snug, and gave no scandal ; and, to show that I was not...my business, I sometimes brought home the paper I purchas'd at the stores thro' the streets on a wheelbarrow. Thus being esteem'd an industrious, thriving... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1909 - 280 Seiten
...or shooting ; a book indeed sometimes debauched me from my work, but that was seldom, was private, and gave no scandal ; and to show that I was not above iny business, I sometimes brought home the paper I purchased at the stores through the streets on a... | |
| James Weber Linn - 1913 - 212 Seiten
...a-fishing or a-shooting; a book, indeed, sometimes debauched me from my work, but that was seldom, snug, and gave no scandal; and to show that I was not above...esteemed an industrious, thriving young man, and paying duty for what I bought, the merchants who imported stationery solicited my custom; others proposed... | |
| John Franklin Genung, Charles Lane Hanson - 1915 - 424 Seiten
...or shooting ; a book indeed sometimes debauched me from my work, but that was seldom, was private, and gave no scandal ; and to show that I was not above...esteemed an industrious, thriving young man and paying dulv for what I bought, the merchants who imported stationery solicited my custom, others proposed... | |
| 1915 - 68 Seiten
...fishing or shooting; a book, indeed, sometimes debauched me from my work, but that was seldom, snug, and gave no scandal; and to show that I was not above my business, I sometimes brought home a paper I purchas'd at the stores thro' the streets on a wheelbarrow. Thus being esteem'd an industrious... | |
| George Rice Carpenter - 1916 - 798 Seiten
...sometimes debauched me from my work, but that was seldom, was private, and gave no scandal: and, to shew that I was not above my business, I sometimes brought...duly for what I bought, the merchants who imported stationary solicited my custom; others proposed supplying me with books, and I went on prosperously.... | |
| Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1916 - 760 Seiten
...sometimes debauched me from my work, but that was seldom, was private, and gave no scandal: and, to shew that I was not above my business, I sometimes brought...duly for what I bought, the merchants who imported stationary solicited my custom; others proposed supplying me with books, and I went on prosperously.... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1916 - 696 Seiten
...indeed, sometimes debauch'd me from my work, but that was seldom, snug, and gave no scandal; and, 10 show that I was not above my business, I sometimes brought home the paper I purchas'd at the stores thro' the streets on a wheelbarrow. Thus being esteem'd an industrious, thriving... | |
| Simon William Straus - 1920 - 288 Seiten
...avoid all appearance to the contrary. I dressed plainly ; I was seen in no places of idle diversion ; and to show that I was not above my business, I sometimes...the stores through the streets on a wheelbarrow." Merchants began to solicit his custom and he began to prosper until in ten years' time he was, as he... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1921 - 280 Seiten
...or shooting ; a book indeed sometimes debauched me from my work, but that was seldom, was private, and gave no scandal ; and to show that I was not above...others proposed supplying me with books, and I went on prosperously. In the mean time, Keimer's credit and business declining daily, he was at last forced... | |
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