 | John Foster - 1844 - 590 páginas
...lightly passed over by many readers, yet if they make a deep impression in one active mind of a hundred, the effects may be considerable. Permit me to mention...met with a book entitled Essays to do Good, which I think was written by your father, It had been so little regarded by a former possessor, that several... | |
 | Enoch Pond - 1844 - 192 páginas
...letter to Dr. Samuel Mather (son of Cotton), dated Passy, France, Nov. 10, 1779, Dr. Franklin says, " Permit me to mention one little instance which, though...met with a book entitled,' Essays to do good,' which I think was written by your father. It had been so little regarded by its former possessor, that several... | |
 | John Foster - 1844 - 432 páginas
...impression in one active mind of a hundred, the effects may be considerable. Permit me to men. tion one little instance which, though it relates to myself,...met with a book entitled Essays to do Good, which I think was written by your father. It had been so little regarded by a former possessor, that several... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 320 páginas
...lightly passed over by many readers, yet if they make a deep impression on one active mind in a hundred, the effects may be considerable. Permit me to mention...met with a book entitled "Essays to do good," which I think was written by your father. It had been so little regarded by a former possessor, that several... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 250 páginas
...yet if they make a deep impression on one active mind in a hundred, the effects may he considerahle. Permit me to mention one little instance, which, though it relates to myself, will not he quite uninteresting to you. When I was a hoy, I met with a hook entitled " Essays to do good," which... | |
 | James Waddel Alexander - 1847 - 300 páginas
...his mind. In a letter written from France, in 1784, Franklin thus addresses Dr. Mather of Boston : " When I was a boy, I met with a book, entitled, Essays to do good, which I think was written by your father. It had been so little regarded by a former possessor, that several... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1849 - 322 páginas
...impression on one active mind in a hundred, the effects may be considerable. Permit me to mention one litile 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," which I think was written by your father. It had... | |
 | 1852 - 454 páginas
...1784, in writing to Samuel Mather, son of our subject, he thus alludes to it in his happy style: — " When I was a boy, I met with a book entitled 'Essays to do Good? which I think was written by your father. It had been so little regarded by a former possessor, that several... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 522 páginas
...lightly passed over by many readers, yet, if they make a deep impression on one active mind in a hundred, the effects may be considerable. Permit me to mention...with a book entitled " Essays to do Good," which, I think, was written by your father. It had been so little regarded by a former possessor that several... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 308 páginas
...little instance which, though it relates to myself, will not be quite uninteresting to you. When 1 was a boy, I met with a book entitled " Essays to do good,' which I think was written by your father. It had been so little regarded by a former possessor, that several... | |
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When I was a boy I met with a book entitled "Essays to Do 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... 
