 | William H. Ablett - Commerce - 1867 - 94 pages
...readers they may prove new and useful. ADDRESS TO " POOR RICHARD'S ALMANAC," 1758. " COURTEOUS READER, " I have heard that nothing gives an author so great pleasure as to find his works respectfally quoted by others. Judge, then, how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1872 - 984 pages
...entitled "Poor Richard," and subsequently printed under the name of The Way to Wealth : 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 graiified by an incident I am going to relate to you.... | |
 | American literature - 1872 - 660 pages
...; be never failed to speak the right word in the right place. THE WAY TO WEALTH. 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.... | |
 | Ephraim Hunt - American literature - 1872 - 658 pages
...much; he never failed to speak the right word in the right place." THE WAY TO WEALTH. COURTEOUS reader, I have heard that nothing gives an author so great pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted byothers. Judge, then, how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am going to relate to you.... | |
 | Godfrey Golding - 1873 - 348 pages
...Precept for Practice, and we earnestly commend its perusal to our readers. " 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.... | |
 | Godfrey Golding - 1877 - 268 pages
...Precept for Practice, and we earnestly commend its perusal to our readers. " 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.... | |
 | Charles Joseph Sherwill Dawe - 1877 - 392 pages
...periodicals he set on foot Poor Richard's Almanac, famous for its maxims and proverbs.J 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.... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - Readers - 1878 - 508 pages
...years " ? What is meant by " memorial blooms " ? CXXI1.— THE WAY TO WEALTH. 1. 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.... | |
 | Chautauquas - 1882 - 630 pages
...the watchwords of thrift and induKtry. Franklin was born in 1706; died in 1790.] CouBTEOL's RKADEK: 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 ¡xn incident I am going to relate to you.... | |
 | Fortunate men - 1884 - 192 pages
...in the Preface of an old Pennsylvania Almanack, 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.... | |
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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... 
