| Benjamin Franklin - 1811 - 190 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 - 1811 - 196 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... | |
| 1812 - 314 pages
...re. jnainder gave me such a turn of thinking, as to hare 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 I have been a useful citizen, the public owes the advantage... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1815 - 336 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 pf it to... | |
| Matthew Mead - 1815 - 244 pages
...seiwuhjiler gave me such a torn of thinking, as to have as influence on my conduct through life; for I have always set a greater value on the character of a doer of good, ihan any otherkihd of reputation ; ami if I have been, as you seem to think, a useful ciiiaen, the.... | |
| Cotton Mather - 1816 - 194 pages
...remainder gave me such a turn of thinking., as tolmv* " an influence on my conduct though life ; for I have always set a " greater value on the character...doer of good, than any other kind " of reputation ; and if I have been, as you seem ta think, a useful " citizen, the public owes the advantage of it... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1816 - 298 pages
...purfuits, fomcthing beneficial was ever in contemplation. He juftly fays of himfelf, " I have always fet a greater value on the character of a doer of good, than on any other kind of reputation." He poffefled the rare talent of drawing ufeful leflbns from the conmionclt... | |
| Joshua Huntington - 1817 - 194 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 .- ",:ri to think, a useful citizen, the publie owes the advantage of... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1817 - 524 pages
...of thinking as to have an •* j' • - l • '* 3i TC 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. . '' '•' -1 -K'TJ! , M*»f as you seem to think,... | |
| A citizen of Pittsburgh - 1818 - 276 pages
...remainder led me into such a train of thinking, as to have an influence on my conduct through life : for 1 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... | |
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