 | Conduct of life - 1841 - 300 pages
...fancies are but Ulc froth of wit THE WAY TO WEALTH, WRITTEN BT DR. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. CODRTIOUI READER, I have heard that nothing gives an author so great...pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by others. Judge, then, how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am going to relate to you.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1844 - 600 pages
...beautiful Dijon edition. It has passed thence into the modern Greek. — EDITOR. COURTEOUS READER, I HAVE heard, that nothing gives an author so great...pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by others. Judge, then, how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am going to relate to you.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 320 pages
...PENNSYLVANIA ALMANAC ENTITLED 'POOR RICHARD'S ALMANAC, FOR THE YEAR 1756" WRITTEN BY DR. FRANKLIN. I HAVE heard, that nothing gives an author so great...pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by olher learned authors. This pleasure I have seldom enjoyed; for though I have been, if I may say it... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 250 pages
...FKANKUN. % TO THE PENNSYLVANIA ALMANAC, Entitled, "Poor Richard's Almanac, for the year l758. I KATE heard, that nothing gives an author so great pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted hy other learned authors. This pleasure I have seldom enjoyed ; for though I have heen, if I may say... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...practical utility. Benjamin Franklin was born at Boston, in 1706; he died in 1790.] Courteous Reader, I have heard, that nothing gives an author so great...pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by others. Judge, then, how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am going to relate to you.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesman - 1848 - 312 pages
...TO THE PENNSYLVANIA ALMANAC, ENTITULED " POOR RICHARD'S ALMANAC FOR 1758." WRITTEN BY DR. FRANKLIN. I HAVE heard that nothing gives an author so great...enjoyed ; for though I have been, if I may say it wunoui v.imi_Y, au emment author (of Almanacs) annually now a full quarter of a century, my brother... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Ells - American literature - 1778 - 392 pages
...larger than the Franklin's way to Wealth, under the character of poo1 Richard, COURTEOUS READER: — I have heard, that nothing gives an author so great...pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by others. Judge then, how much I must have been gratified by an incident lam going to relate to you.... | |
 | Orville Luther Holley - Inventors - 1848 - 534 pages
...the Preface of an old Pennsylvania Almanac, entitled, " Poor Richard Improved." COURTEOUS READER : I have heard that nothing gives an author so great...pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by others. Judge, then, how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am going to relate to you.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1853 - 522 pages
...THE PREFACE OP AN OLD PENNSYLVANIA ALMANAC, ENTITLED, " POOR EICHAKD IMPROVED." * COURTEOUS READER : I have heard that nothing gives an author so great...pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by others. Judge, then, how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am going to relate to you.... | |
 | 1853 - 446 pages
...safety to the throne of God. From " SUNDAY MEMORIALS." LETTER FROM POOR RICHARD. COURTEOUS READER, — I have heard that nothing gives an author so great...pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by others. Judge, then, how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am going to relate to you.... | |
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I have been, if I may say it without vanity an eminent author of almanacks annually now a full quarter of a century, my brother authors in the same way, for what reason I know not, have ever been very sparing in their applauses, and no other author has... 
