 says Benjamin Franklin, describing the little library in his uncle's house, " a book of De Foe's called an Essay on Projects, which perhaps gave me a turn of thinking that had an influence on some of the principal future events of my life.  Daniel De Foe and Charles Churchill - Էջ 22John Forster - 1855 - 267 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 էջ
...of Defoe's called "An Essay on Projects" and another of Dr. Mather's called " An Essay to do Good" which perhaps gave me a turn of thinking, that had...on some of the principal future events of my life. This bookish inclination at length determined my father to make me a printer,though he had already... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 էջ
...of Defoe's, called Jin Essay on Projects, and another of Dr. Mather's, called Jin Essay to do Good, which perhaps gave me a turn of thinking, that had...on some of the principal future events of my life. This bookish inclination at length determined my father to- make me a printer, though he had already... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 668 էջ
...of Dr. Mather's, called Jin Essay to do Good, which perhaps gave me a turn of thinking, that had I an influence on some of the principal future events of my life. This bookish inclination at length determined my father to make me a printer, though he had already... | |
 | 1845 - 608 էջ
...the pursuits of the most clear and practical genius of the succeeding century. ' There was also, 1 says Benjamin Franklin, describing the little library...on some of the principal future events of my life.' He composed the Essay here; though it was not published until two years later. What the tendency of... | |
 | 1846 - 516 էջ
...works it abounds with original and sagacious remarks. Franklin acknowledges that this essay " gave him a turn of thinking that had an influence on some of the principal future events of his^ life," and many other writers and speculators have derived serviceable hints from it. Meanwhile... | |
 | Horatio Hastings Weld, John Frost - 1846 - 252 էջ
...entitled "An Essay to do Good." In his account of his early life Franklin says, this latter work gave him a turn of thinking that had an influence on some of the principal events in his career. In a letter to Dr. Mather, the son of the author of the essay, written in 1784,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1847 - 1092 էջ
...overthrows our doctrines." • « Essays to do Good," which, says Franklin, « perhaps gave me a tone of thinking that had an influence on some of the principal future events of my life."—Memoir», p. 16. I Letter to Dr. Stebbins. Ф Review of Ethical Philosophy, p. 109. S Essay... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1847 - 592 էջ
...overthrows our doctrines." • « Eeseys to do Good," which, says Franklin, « perhaps gave me a tone of thinking that had an influence on some of the principal future éventa of my life."—Memoirs, p. 16. t Letter to Dr. Stebbins. Ф Review of Ethical Philosophy, p.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Horatio Hastings Weld - 1849 - 592 էջ
...of De Foe's, called an Essay on Projects, and another of Dr. Mather's, called an Essay to do Good, which perhaps gave me a turn of thinking that had...on some of the principal future events of my life. This bookish inclination at length determined my father to make me a printer, though he had already... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Horatio Hastings Weld - 1849 - 602 էջ
...of De Foe's, called an Essay on Projects, and another of Dr. Mather's, called an Essay to do Good, which perhaps gave me a turn of thinking that had...on some of the principal future events of my life. This bookish inclination at length determined my father to make me a printer, though he had already... | |
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