 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1818 - 566 pages
...principle which has ever weighed with me on such occasions ; viz. That as we etyoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of...to serve others by any invention of ours ; and this zee should do freely and generously. An ironmonger in London, however, assuming a good deal of my pamphlet,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 556 pages
...principle which has ever weighed with me on such occasions; riz. That as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of...an opportunity to serve others by any invention of oura; and this we should do freely and generously. An ironmonger in London, however, assuming a good... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Philosophers - 1818 - 566 pages
...with me on such occasions, viz. That as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, me should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours ; and this tec. should do freely and generously. An ironmonger in London, however, assuming a good deal of my... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1838 - 632 pages
...principle, which has ever weighed with me on such occasions, viz. That, as toe enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of...to serve others by any invention of ours ; and this me should do freely and generously. " An ironmonger in London, however, assuming a good deal of my... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 640 pages
...with me on such occasions, viz. That, as toe enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, ice should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours ; and tkis tee should do freely and generously. " An ironmonger in London, however, assuming a good deal... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1844 - 548 pages
...which, he says, "has always weighed with me on such occasions ; viz. That, as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of...ours; and this we should do freely and generously." Governor Thomas offered him a patent for his newly invented " Pennsylvania fireplace," or, as it was... | |
 | Orville Luther Holley - Inventors - 1848 - 522 pages
...himself; assigning, as his reason, to those who urged him to do so, that " as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others, by any inventions of our own ; and this we should do freely and generously." PATENT-RIGHTS PUBLIC DEFENCE.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1853 - 522 pages
...which has ever weighed with me on such occasions, namely, That, as we enjoy great advantages frorn the inventions of others, we should be glad of an...An ironmonger in London, however, assuming a good deul of my pamphlet and working it up into his own, and making sumo small changes in the machine, which... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 pages
...occasions, viz : That, as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be qlad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention...ironmonger in London, however, assuming a good deal ot my pamphlet, and working it up into his own, and making some small changes in the machine, which... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1859 - 710 pages
...principle which has ever weighed with me on such occasions, viz. Thai, as ice enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of...serve others by any invention of ours ; and this we sfiould do freely and generously. An ironmonger in London, however, assuming a good deal of my pamphlet,... | |
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I declined it from a principle which has ever weighed with me on such occasions; viz., that as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do... 
