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" Come, my friends, we will drink together. It is now forty years since I worked like you, at this Press, as a journeyman Printer. "
La Belle Assemblée - Page 56
1818
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The Select Works of Benjamin Franklin: Including His Autobiography, with ...

Benjamin Franklin, Epes Sargent - 1866 - 270 pages
...same printing-office, and, going up to a particular press, said to the men who were working at it : " Come, my friends, we will drink together. It is now...like you, at this press, as a journeyman printer." Franklin then sent out for a gallon of porter, and drank with them. This press is now in the Patent...
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Peeps at foreign countries, by the ed. [N. Macleod] and contributions to ...

Peeps - 1871 - 528 pages
...Lincoln's- Inn Fields ; and going up to this press, he said, addressing the printers, " Come, my lads, we will drink together ! It is now forty years since...worked like you at this press as a journeyman printer." He then sent for some porter, and drank, " Success to printing ! " There are also a series of excellent...
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Old Landmarks and Historic Personages of Boston

Samuel Adams Drake - 1873 - 514 pages
...into this office, and going up to a particular press (now in this country), said to the two workmen, " Come, my friends, we will drink together. It is now...forty years since I worked like you at this press, a journeyman printer." Franklin's celebrated toast at Versailles will not lose by repetition. At the...
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Old Landmarks and Historic Personages of Boston

Samuel Adams Drake - 1873 - 520 pages
...into this office, and going up to a particular press (now in this country), said to the two workmen, " Come, my friends, we will drink together. It is now...forty years since I worked like you at this press, a journeyman printer." Franklin's celebrated toast at Versailles will not lose by repetition. At the...
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How Benjamin Franklin, the printer boy, made his mark

William Makepeace Thayer - 1875 - 298 pages
...the beer-drinkers, and, stepping up to the press on which he worked month after month, he said : " Come, my friends, we will drink together. It is now...like you, at this press, as a journeyman printer." With these words, he sent out for a gallon of porter, and they drank together according to the custom...
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Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and ..., Volume 3

Walter Thornbury - 1879 - 604 pages
...Great Queen Street, of whom it was purchased), thus addressed the men who were working at it : — ' Come, my friends, we will drink together. It is now...like you, at this Press, as a journeyman Printer." The Doctor then sent out for a gallon of Porter, and he drank with them — 'SUCCESS TO PRINTING.'...
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Bloomsbury and St. Gile's: Past and Present

George Clinch - 1890 - 354 pages
...of Great Queen Street, of whom it was purchased), thus addressed the men who were working at it : ' Come, my friends, we will drink together. It is now...like you, at this Press, as a journeyman Printer.' The Doctor then sent out for a gallon of Porter, and he drank with them — ' SUCCESS TO PRINTING.'...
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Walks in London, Volume 1

Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1901 - 412 pages
...court, near Chapel Place. In 1768 he revisited his old workshop, and addressing the workmen said, ' Come, my friends, we will drink together ; it is now...worked like you at this press as a journeyman printer. ' Pit Place, between Great Wild Street and Drury Lane, occupies the site of the ancient Cock-pit, demolished...
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St. Giles of the Lepers

Edward Codrington William Grey - 1905 - 272 pages
...of Great Queen Street, of whom it was purchased) thus addressed the men who were working at it : ' Come, my friends, we will drink together. It is now...like you, at this Press, as a journeyman Printer.' The Doctor then sent out for a gallon of Porter, and he drank with them, SUCCESS TO PRINTING. " From...
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Notes Gleaned from Contemporary Literature, &c: Respecting the Issuers of ...

Arthur W. Waters - 1906 - 132 pages
...Great Queen Street, of whom it was purchased), thus addressed the men who were working at it : — ' Come, my friends, we will drink together. It is now...like you, at this Press, as a journeyman Printer." The Doctor then sent out for a gallon of Porter, and he drank with them — ' SUCCESS TO PRINTING.'...
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