 | 1866 - 368 pages
...fuch a Turn of thinking, as to have an Influence on my Conduct through Life ; for I have always fet a greater Value on the Character of a Doer of Good than on any other Kind of Reputation." In the fame Letter is to be found that often told anecdote of an... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1867 - 766 pages
...philosopher, a statesman, and a patriot, he nobly says, in reference to the " Essays to do good," — " 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... | |
 | 1867 - 612 pages
...remainder gave me such a turn of thinking, as to have an influence on my conduct through life ; for / 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... | |
 | George Alsop - 1869 - 194 pages
...do Good," gave me such a turn for 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 yon seem to think, a useful citizen, the public owes the advantage to that hook.... | |
 | Edward Barrass - 1870 - 376 pages
...bays he, "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 a useful citizen, the public owes all the advantage of it to that little book."... | |
 | Henry Stevens (Jr.) - 1872 - 404 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 citizen, the public owes the advantage of it to... | |
 | Henry Stevens - 1872 - 398 pages
...such a turn of thinking, as to have an influence on my conduct through life; for I have always seta greater value on the character of a doer of good than any other kind of reputation ; and if I have been, as yon seem to think, a useful citizen, the public owes the advantage of it to... | |
 | Samuel Irenæus Prime - 1874 - 332 pages
...the 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... | |
 | 1875 - 780 pages
...he says, " 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 a useful citizen, the public owes all the advantages of it to that little book."... | |
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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... 
