 | Edmund Burke - 1819 - 822 pages
...remainder gave me such a turn of thinking as to have an influence on my conduct through life ; for I have always set a greater value on the character of -a doer of good, than on any other kind of reputation ; and if 1 have been, as you seem to think, a useful citizen, the public... | |
 | 1807 - 674 pages
...remainder gave me such a turn of thinking, as to have an influence On my conduct through life ; for I have always set a greater value on the character of a doer of gotd, than any otherkind of reputation j and if 1 have been, as you seem to think, a useful citizen,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1793 - 282 pages
...thinking, as to have an influence on my conduct through life: for I have always fet a greater value on die character of a doer of good, than any other kind of reputation; and if I have been, as you feem to think, a ufeful Citizen, the public owes the advantage of it to... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1794 - 350 pages
...fuch a turn of thinking, as to have an influence on my conduct through life : for I have always let a greater value on the character of a doer of good, than any other kind of reputation ; and if 1 have been, as you feem to think, a ufet'ul citizen, the public owes the advantage of it... | |
 | John Aikin - 1803 - 768 pages
...In all his speculations and pursuits, something beneficial was ever in contemplation. He justly says of himself " I have always set a greater value on...a doer of good than any other kind of reputation." Though by no means inattentive to his own interest, as his rise in the world to high stations and an... | |
 | John Aikin - 1803
...In aJl his speculations and pursuits, something beneficial was ever in contemplation. He justly eays of himself " I have always set a greater value on the character of a doer of good Uiu\i any other kind of reputation." Though by no means inattentive to his own interest, as his rise... | |
 | William Smith - 1803
...remainder " gave me such a turn of thinking, as to have great influence on "my conduct through life; for I have always set a greater value " on the character of a doer of good, than on any other kind of " reputation ; and if I have been, as you seem to think, a useful " citizen, the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1806 - 590 pages
...remainder -gave me such a turn of thinking, as to have an influence on my conduct through life: for I have always set a greater value on the character...a doer of good, than any other kind of reputation ; and if 1 have been, as you seem to think, a useful citizen, the public owes the advantage of it to... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1806 - 586 pages
...remainder gave me such a turn of thinking, as to have an influence on my conduct through life: for I have always set a greater value on the character...a doer of good, than any other kind of reputation; and if I have been, as you seem to think, a useful citizen, the public owes the advantage of it to... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1810 - 284 pages
...remainder gave Dae such a turn for thmking, as to have an mfluence on my conduct through lite : for I have always set a greater value on the character...a doer of good, than any other kind of reputation; and if I have bee,n, as you seem to think, a useful citi/An, ihe public owes ihe advantage of it to... | |
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Good," which, I think, was written by your father. It had been so little regarded by a former possessor that several leaves of it were torn out, but the remainder gave me such a turn of thinking as to have an influence on my conduct through life; for... 
