 | Benjamin Franklin, John Bigelow - 1884 - 558 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 » Cotton Mather.— En. regarded by a former... | |
 | James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - 1888 - 838 páginas
...letter to Cotton Mather's son, Samuel, dated Passy, France, 10 Nov., 1779, Benjamin Franklin said, " Permit me to mention one little instance which, though...relates to myself, will not be quite uninteresting to von. When I was a boy I met with a book entitled 'Essays to do Good,' which I think was written by... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 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... | |
 | James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - 1888 - 836 páginas
...letter to Cotton Mather's son, Samuel, dated Passy, France, 10 Nov., 1779, Benjamin Franklin said, "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... | |
 | James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - 1888 - 834 páginas
...letter to Cotton Mather's son, Samuel, dated Passy, France, 10 Nov., 1779, Benjamin Franklin said, "Permit me to mention one little instance which, though...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.... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1889 - 510 páginas
...future events of my life." He wrote to a son of Doctor Mather about it, late in life, as follows : " When I was a boy, I met with a book, entitled ' Essays to do Good,' which I think was written by your father (Cotton Mather). It had been so little regarded by a former possessor... | |
 | Abijah Perkins Marvin - 1892 - 610 páginas
...the author in his views of religion. He wrote as follows, in his old age, to Dr. Samuel Mather : — 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 its former possessor that several... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson, Mrs. Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz - 1894 - 592 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 - 1899 - 204 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... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - 1899 - 554 páginas
...youth• ful mind that, full seventy years after reading it, Franklin wrote to the author's son : " 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 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... 
