 | Perseverance - 1862 - 310 lehte
...himself, in consequence, much stronger and more clear-headed than they. " On one occasion," he says, "I carried up and down stairs a large form of types...was stronger than themselves, who drank strong beer. My constant attendance recommended me to the master, and my uncommon quickness at composing occasioned... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1862 - 880 lehte
...a large form of types in each hand, when others carried but one m both hands. They -wondered to see st in a burst of laughter. The talk lightly passes to the writings of a certain Scot. A member We had an alehouse boy, who always attended in the house to supply the workmen. My companion at the... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1865 - 366 lehte
...in each hand, when others carried but one in both hands. They wondered to see, from this and similar instances, that the Water American, as they called...was stronger than themselves who drank strong beer ! We had an alehouse boy, who attended always in the house to supply the workmen. My companion at the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Epes Sargent - 1866 - 270 lehte
...one in both hands. They wondered to see, from this and several instances, that the Water-American, as they called me, was stronger than themselves, who drank strong beer ! We had an ale-house boy, who attended always in the house to supply the workmen. My'companion at... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1868 - 434 lehte
...one in both hands. They wondered to see, from this and several instances, that the Water-American, as they called me, was stronger than themselves, who drank strong beer ! We had an alehouse boy who attended always in the house to supply the workmen. My companion at the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1868 - 426 lehte
...one in both hands. They wondered to see, from this and several instances, that the Water-American, as they called me, was stronger than themselves, who drank strong beer ! We had an alehouse boy who attended always in the house to supply the workmen. My companion at the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1869 - 426 lehte
...mix'd with composing. I drank only water ; the other workmen, near fifty in number, were great guzzlers of beer. On occasion, I carried up and down stairs...was stronger than themselves, who drank strong beer ! We had an alehouse boy who attended always in the house to supply the workmen. My companion at the... | |
 | Dawson Burns - 1873 - 232 lehte
...large form of types in each hand, when others carried but one form in both hands. They wondered at this and several instances that the Water American,...called me, was stronger than themselves who drank beer. We had an alehouse-boy, who attended always in the house to supply the workmen. My companion... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 812 lehte
...mix'd with composing. I drank only water ; the other workmen, near fifty in number, were great guzzlers of beer. On occasion, I carried up and down stairs...was stronger than themselves, who drank strong beer ! We had an alehouse boy who attended always in the house to supply the workmen. My companion at the... | |
 | John Guthrie - 1877 - 368 lehte
...as compared with the beer-bibbers around him : — " They wondered," he says in his Autobiography, " that the water American, as they called me, was stronger than themselves, who drank beer. We had an ale-house boy who attended always in the * Physiological Errors of Moderation, p. 136.... | |
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American, as they called me, was stronger than themselves, who drank strong beer! We had an alehouse boy, who attended always in the house to supply the workmen. My companion at the press drank every day a pint before breakfast, a pint at breakfast with... 
