 | MARY CAROLINE CRAWFORD - 1908 - 540 頁
...among them being that of hospitality: " My father," Franklin tells us, " liked to have at his table, as often as he could, some sensible friend or neighbour...taken of what related to the victuals on the table, ... so that I was brought up in such a perfect inattention to those matters as to be quite indifferent... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1908 - 480 頁
...Rather an austere Calvinist, a man of " sound understanding." Careless about food at table, he talked of what was " good, just, and prudent in the conduct of life," and not of the baked beans, the corned beef, or the rye and Indian bread. The father had a few books: Plutarch's... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1908 - 476 頁
...Rather an austere Calvinist, a man of " sound understanding." Careless about food at table, he talked of what was " good, just, and prudent in the conduct of life," and not of the baked beans, the corned beef, or the rye and Indian bread. The father had a few books: Plutarch's... | |
 | Arthur Leland, Lorna Highbee Leland - 1909 - 296 頁
...said that his father at his table liked to have as often as he could, some sensible friend or neighbor to converse with, and always took care to start some...the minds of his children. By this means he turned their attention to what was good, just and prudent in the conduct of life. This insight into his childhood... | |
 | Boston (Mass.). School Committee - 1865 - 348 頁
...some sensible friend or neighbor ; and always took care to start some ingenious or useful topic of discourse, which might tend to improve the minds of...good, just, and prudent, in the conduct of life." At an educational meeting held in Plymouth county in 1838, Daniel Webster expressed his views on this... | |
 | William Cabell Bruce - 1917 - 560 頁
...him for his opinion in affairs of the town or of the church he belonged to, and showed a good deal of respect for his judgment and advice : he was also...the victuals on the table, whether it was well or ill-dressed, in or out of season, of good or bad flavour, preferable or inferior to this or that other... | |
 | William Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Carl Van Doren - 1922 - 456 頁
...his table, "as often as he could, some sensible friend or neighbour to converse with," always taking care "to start some ingenious or useful topic for...might tend to improve the minds of his children." Benjamin's formal schooling was begun when he was eight years old and abandoned, together with the... | |
 | Stuart Pratt Sherman - 1922 - 364 頁
...his table "as often as he could, some sensible friend or neighbour to converse with," always taking care "to start some ingenious or useful topic for...might tend to improve the minds of his children." Benjamin's formal schooling was begun when he was eight years old and abandoned when he was ten, together... | |
 | William Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Carl Van Doren - 1923 - 456 頁
...his table, "as often as he could, some sensible friend or neighbour to converse with," always taking care "to start some ingenious or useful topic for...might tend to improve the minds of his children." Benjamin's formal schooling was begun when he was eight years old and abandoned, together with the... | |
 | Garry Cleveland Myers - 1925 - 440 頁
...he liked to have, as often as he 'Riverside Edition, p. 16. could, some sensible friend or neighbor to converse with, and always took care to start some...was good, just, and prudent in the conduct of life." The more clear-cut and definite the appeal to the imagination the more effectual it will be. To suggest... | |
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At his table he liked to have, as often as he could, some sensible friend or neighbour to converse with, and always took care to start some ingenious or useful topic for discourse, which might tend to improve the minds of his children. By this means he... 
