| Manie Sands - God - 1897 - 106 pages
...— ' ' Even the devil himself can quote Scripture when it serves his own purpose." Franklin. — " Nothing gives an author so great pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by others." RW Emerson. — "A great man quotes bravely and will not draw on his invention when his memory... | |
| george rice carpenter - 1898 - 498 pages
...anteponendus." [Autobiography. From Bigelow's Life, vol. i, pp. 227-245.] 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.... | |
| George Rice Carpenter - American literature - 1898 - 498 pages
...anteponendus." [Autobiography. From Bigelow's Life, vol. i, pp. 227-245.] 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.... | |
| Literature - 1898 - 264 pages
...their giving too much for their whistles. THE WAY TO WEALTH BENJAMIN FRANKLIN COURTEOUS READER, — I have heard that nothing gives an author so great pleasure as to find his work respectfully quoted by others. Judge, then, how much I must have been gratified by an incident... | |
| Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 430 pages
...an author so great pleasure as ti- litrl his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors. 57 This pleasure I have seldom enjoyed. For though I...vanity, an eminent author of Almanacs annually, now for a full quarter of a century, my brother authors in the same way, for what reason I know not, have... | |
| Charles William Bardeen - Authors, American - 1899 - 510 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 - Almanacs, American - 1900 - 190 pages
...The pages which follow were prefixed to the almanac of 1757. Poor Richard's Almanac COURTEOUS READER: I have heard that nothing gives an author so great...vanity, an eminent author of almanacs annually now for a full quarter of a century, my brother authors in the same way, for what reason I know not, have... | |
| American essays - 1900 - 514 pages
...and influential till his death, m 1790, at the age of eighty-four 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.... | |
| Chauncey C. Starkweather - American essays - 1900 - 450 pages
...influential till his death, in 1790, at the age of eighty-four. 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.... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1901 - 296 pages
...to the almanac of 1757. POOR RICHARD'S ALMANAC OOURTEOUS READER: I have heard that nothing gives ar. author so great pleasure as to find his works respectfully...vanity, an eminent author of almanacs annually now for a full quarter of a century, my brother authors in the same way, for what reason I know not, have... | |
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