 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
 | Paul Leicester Ford - Biography & Autobiography - 1899 - 554 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... | |
 | Sophia H. MacLehose - France - 1901 - 450 pages
...admiring countryman, while Franklin himself tells his daughter of the pictures, busts, and prints which " have made your father's face as well known as that of the moon," and of the medallions in his honour set in snuff-boxes and worn in rings.1 The age of salons was not... | |
 | Charles Felton Pidgin - Americans - 1904 - 358 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 - United States - 1906 - 486 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... | |
 | James Breck Perkins - History - 1911 - 580 pages
...These, with the pictures, busts, and printings (of which copies upon copies are spread everywhere)., have made your father's face as well known as that of the moon." It was the fashion for every one to have an engraving of M. Franklin on the mantelpiece, writes a contemporary.... | |
 | George Larkin Clark - Biography & Autobiography - 1913 - 324 pages
...These, with the pictures, busts, and printings (of which copies upon copies are spread everywhere), have made your father's face as well known as that of the moon. Franklin and Deane were together at Passy, on friendliest terms, and soon Lee came over from England... | |
 | Richard Townley Haines Halsey, Elizabeth Tower - Architecture, Colonial - 1925 - 546 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... | |
 | John Clyde Oswald - 1926 - 72 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... | |
 | Earl H. Emmons - 1929 - 74 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." 81 Envoys such as John Adams, who took their jobs as something deadly serious, failed miserably in... | |
 | Bernard Fa˙, Bravig Imbs - Statesmen - 1929 - 620 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. ... It is said by learned etymologists, that the name doll, for the images children play with, is derived... | |
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