| Benjamin Franklin - 1793 - 324 էջ
...myfelf, will not be quite uninterefting to you. When I was a boy, I met with a book entitled ** Efiays to do good," which I think was written" by your father. It had been fo little regarded by a former poffeflor, that feveral leaves of it were torn out ; but the remainder... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1806 - 586 էջ
...mention one little instance, which, though it relates to myself, will not be quite uninteresting to you. When I was a boy, I met with a book entitled, " Essays to do good," which 1 think was written by your father. Jt had been so little regarded by a former possessor that several... | |
| 1807 - 592 էջ
...mention one little instance, which, though it relates to myself, will not be quite uninteresting to you. When I was a boy, I met with a book, entitled ' Essays...by your father. It had been so little regarded by its former possessor, that. •ereral leaves of it were torn out; but the remainder gave me such a... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1810 - 292 էջ
...though it relates to myself, will not be quite uninteresting to you. When I was a boy, I met with » book entitled' " Essays to do good,'' which I think...a former possessor, that several leaves of it were tora out; but the remainder gave Dae such a turn for thmking, as to have an mfluence on my conduct... | |
| 1812 - 314 էջ
...universal benevolencei " When I was a boy," says he, " I met with a book entitled " Essays to do good." It had been so little regarded by a former possessor, that several leaves of it were torn out; but the remaimlcr gave me such a turn of thinking, as to hare an influence on my conduct through life ; for... | |
| Cotton Mather - 1816 - 194 էջ
...instance, which, though it ' relates to myself, will not be quite uninteresting to you. When I was a hoy, I met with a book, entitled ' Essays to do good,'...by your father. It had been so little ' regarded by its former possessor, that several leaves of it were torn ' out; but the remainder gave me such a turn... | |
| 1817 - 576 էջ
...sensibility. « When I was a boy,' says the Doctor, in a letter to the Rev. Dr Mather of Boston, ' I met with a book entitled Essays to do good which...I think was written by your father. It had been so littlt regarded by a former possessor, that several leaves of it were torr out : but the remainder... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1817 - 524 էջ
...mention one little instance, which though it relates to myself, will not be quite uninteresting to you. When I was a boy, I met with a "book entitled Essays to do Good, which 1 think was written by your father. It had been so little regarded by a former possessor, that several... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1818 - 1264 էջ
...quite uninteresting to you. When I was a boy, 1 met with a book entitle/I Essays to do Good, which 1 think was written by your father. It had been so little regarded by a former possessor, that severnl leaves of it were torn mil : but the remainder gave me such a turn of thinking as to have an... | |
| 1821 - 356 էջ
...mention one little instance, which, though it relates to myself, will not be quite nilinteresting to you. When I was a boy, I met with a book entitled " Essays...good," which I think was written by your father. It bad been so little regarded by a former possessor, that several leaves of it were torn out ; but the... | |
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