 A variety of others have been made since of different sizes ; some to be set in the lids of snuffboxes, and some so small as to be worn in rings ; and the numbers sold are incredible. These, with the pictures, busts, and prints, (of which copies upon...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 3561886Full view - About this book
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 562 pages
...incredible. These, with the pictures, busts, and prints, (of which copies upon copies are spread everywhere,) have made your father's face as well known as that of the moon, so that he durst not do any thing that would oblige him to run away, as his phiz would discover him... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 768 pages
...incredible. These, with the pictures, busts, and prints, (of which copies upon copies are spread everywhere,) have made your father's face as well known as that of the moon, so that he durst not do any thing that would oblige him to run away, as his phiz would discover him... | |
 | Jeremiah Chaplin - Biography & Autobiography - 1876 - 416 pages
...incredible. These, with the pictures, busts and prints (of which copies upon copies are spread everywhere), have made your father's face as well known as that of the moon, so that he durst not do anything that would oblige him to run away, as his phiz would discover him... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Philosophers - 1884 - 564 pages
...incredible. These, with the pictures, busts, and prints, (of which copies upon copies are spread everywhere,) have made your father's face as well known as that of the moon, so that he durst not do any thing that would oblige him to run away, as his phiz would discover him... | |
 | United States. Department of State - United States - 1889 - 908 pages
...incredible. These, with the pictures, busts, and prints (of which copies upon copies are spread everywhere), have made your father's face as well known as that of the moon, so that he durst not do anything that would oblige him to run away, as his phiz would discover him... | |
 | Bayard Tuckerman - France - 1889 - 304 pages
...daughter, "with the pictures, busts, and prints (of which copies upon copies are spread everywhere), have made your father's face as well known as that of the moon, so that he durst not do anything that would oblige him to run away, as his phiz would discover him... | |
 | 1897 - 588 pages
...incredible. These, with the pictures, busts, and prints, of which copies upon copies are spread everywhere, have made your father's face as well known as that of the moon." Nini is said to have modelled another medallion of Franklin, without the cap, in 1779. FEANELIM IN... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - Biography - 1894 - 458 pages
...we shall never be reasonable." He tells his' daughter that there have been sold incredible numbers of clay medallions of him, "some to be set in the...father's face as well known as that of the moon." Versailles was never perhaps quite certain that the New England philosopher was not of red Indian descent.... | |
 | Edith Helen Sichel - France - 1897 - 406 pages
...was complete without a ring or a snuff-box with his medallion. " These," he wrote to his daughter, "have made your father's face as well known as that of the moon, so that he durst not do anything that would oblige him to run away, as his phiz would discover him... | |
 | New York Public Library - Bibliography - 1906 - 720 pages
...incredible. These, with the pictures, busts, and prints, (of which copies upon copies are spread everywhere,) have made your father's face as well known as that of the moon, so that he durst not do anything that would oblige him 10 run away, as his phi?, would discover him... | |
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