 | Paul Leicester Ford - 1899 - 554 pages
...of making his 174 doctrines more respected and more observed ; especially as I do not perceive that the Supreme takes it amiss, by distinguishing the...unbelievers in his government of the world with any peculiar mark of displeasure. " I shall only add, respecting myself, that, having experienced the goodness of... | |
 | Charles Josselyn - 1903 - 320 pages
...has, of making his doctrines more respected and more observed ; especially as I do not perceive that the Supreme takes it amiss, by distinguishing the...unbelievers in his government of the world with any peculiar mark of displeasure. I shall only add, respecting myself, that having experienced the goodness of that... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1907 - 880 pages
...of making his Doctrines more respected and better observed ; especially as I do not perceive, that the Supreme takes it amiss, by distinguishing the...Goodness of that Being in conducting me prosperously thro' a long life, I have no doubt of its Continuance in the next, though without the smallest Conceit... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1907 - 686 pages
...of making his Doctrines more respected and better observed ; especially as I do not perceive, that the Supreme takes it amiss, by distinguishing the...experienced the Goodness of that Being in conducting me prosily thro' a long life, I have no doubt of its Continuance next, though without the smallest Conceit... | |
 | Woodbridge Riley - 1907 - 630 pages
...has received corrupting changes, and concludes with the observation that he does not perceive that the Supreme takes it amiss by distinguishing the unbelievers...government of the world with any peculiar marks of displeasure.3 In this same letter Franklin encloses another, supposed to be written to Thomas Paine,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1908 - 430 pages
...Principles of all sound Religion, and I regard them as you do in whatever sect I meet with them. . . . " I shall only add, respecting myself, that having experienced...Goodness of that Being in conducting me prosperously thro' a long life, I have no doubt of its continuance in the next, though without the smallest conceit... | |
 | William Allan Neilson - 1914 - 510 pages
...and vigils, Franklin tranquilly expected as the outcome of a life regulated by prudence and virtue. "Having experienced the goodness of that Being in conducting me prosperously through a long life," he wrote to President Stiles of Yale, "I have no doubt of its continuance in the next, though without... | |
 | Woodbridge Riley - 1915 - 390 pages
...has received corrupting changes, and concludes with the observation that he does not perceive that the Supreme takes it amiss by distinguishing the unbelievers...government of the world with any peculiar marks of displeasure. The result of Franklin's liberal policy was that Philadelphia in his day was in the van... | |
 | William Cabell Bruce - 1917 - 560 pages
...has, of making his Doctrines more respected and better observed; especially as I do not perceive, that the Supreme takes it amiss, by distinguishing the...Goodness of that Being in conducting me prosperously thro' a long life, I have no doubt of its Continuance in the next, though without the smallest conceit... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - 1923 - 252 pages
...has, of making his doctrines more respected and more observed; especially as I do not perceive, that the Supreme takes it amiss, by distinguishing the...world with any peculiar marks of his displeasure. <l I shall only add, respecting myself, that, having experienced the goodness of that Being in conducting... | |
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... myself with it now, when I expect soon an Opportunity of knowing the Truth with less Trouble. I see no harm, however, in its being believed, if that Belief has the good Consequence, as probably it has, of making his Doctrines more respected and... 
