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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... "
Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ... - Page 216
1823
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The works of Benjamin Franklin: with notes and a life of the ..., Volume 10

Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 572 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 I have been, as you seem to think, a useful citizen, the public...
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The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and ..., Volume 10

Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 580 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 I have been, as you seem to think, a useful citizen, the public...
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Biblical Repository and Quarterly Observer

1842 - 1046 pages
...interposition of Mather, as his son informs us, 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 t»ve been, as you seem to think, a useful citizen, the public <>• •» the advantage...
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The American Biblical Repository

1842 - 514 pages
...interposition of Mather, as his son informs us, 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 tave been, as you seem to think, a useful citizen, the public o- te the advantage of it...
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My Progress in Error, and Recovery to Truth: Or, A Tour Through Universalism ...

1842 - 258 pages
...time I had towards Him, who is alone the proper object of worship. Franklin somewhere says that he always set a greater value on the character of a " doer of good," than on any other kind of reputation — and I early determined to make him my model ; and to secure that...
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The Pleasures of Religion...

Henry Forster Burder - 1843 - 236 pages
...do Good. It 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 I have been as you seem to think, a useful citizen, the public...
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The Mather Family

Enoch Pond - 1844 - 192 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...
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Contributions, Biographical, Literary, and Philosophical, to the ..., Volume 1

John Foster - 1844 - 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 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 public...
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Biographical, Literary, and Philosophical Essays: Contributed to the ...

John Foster - 1844 - 432 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 I have been, as you seem to think, a useful citizen, the public...
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The Works of ... Franklin: Consisting of Essays, Humorous, Moral, and ...

Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 320 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 any other kind of reputation ; and if I have been, as you seem to think, a useful citi zen, the public owes the advantage of it...
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