 | Bruce McCullough, Edwin Berry Burgum - 1926 - 462 pages
...do Good, "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 ... a useful citizen, the public owes the advantage... | |
 | Ralph Philip Boas, Louise Schutz Boas - 1928 - 304 pages
...the remainder gave me such a turn of thinking, as to have influence on my conduct through life; for I have always set a greater value on the character of a doe r of good, than on any other kind of reputation; and if I have been, as you seem to think, a useful... | |
 | Robert H. Bremner - 1988 - 313 pages
...Franklin advised Samuel Mather, Cotton's son, that the Essays had influenced his conduct throughout life. "I have always set a greater value on the character of a doer of good, than on any other kind of reputation," he wrote, "and if I have been ... a useful citizen, the public owes... | |
 | James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - 1888 - 808 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...a doer of good than any other kind of reputation, and if I nave been, as you seem to think, a useful citizen, the public owes the advantage of it to... | |
 | Peter J. Conn - 1989 - 624 pages
...been discerned m the volume. Benjamin Franklin wrote that Boru/acnB influenced him "through bfer; tor I have always set a greater value on the character of a doer of good, dun on any other kind of reputation; and if I have been a useful onsen, die Public owes die advantage... | |
 | Nian-Sheng Huang - 1994 - 304 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... | |
 | Claude N. Rosenberg - 1994 - 224 pages
...that's more rewarding than my own experience of working with charities." Benjamin Franklin wrote that he "always set a greater value on the character of a doer of good than on any other kind of reputation." And Franklin himself founded and supported schools, hospitals, homes... | |
 | James Campbell - 1999 - 322 pages
...son, Samuel, on 12 May 1784 that Essays to do Good had "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 . . ." (W9:208).90 For Franklin, the combined message of these two... | |
 | Kathleen D. McCarthy - 2003 - 350 pages
...public service into "a kind of religion." As he later admitted, Essay upon the Good inspired him to "set a greater value on the character of a doer of good, than on any other kind of reputation."4 Like Mather, Defoe offered a menu of potential activities, from... | |
 | Mark Skousen, Benjamin Franklin - 2005 - 514 pages
...remainder gave me such a turn of thinking as to have no [small] influence on my conduct thro' 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... | |
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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... 
