 | Orville Luther Holley - 1848 - 522 Seiten
...ready to do you another, than he to whom you have yourself done a favor ;" and " it shows," he adds, " how much more profitable it is, prudently to remove,...resent, return, and continue, inimical proceedings." • The incidents related, and their results, were certainly honorable to the good sense and liberal... | |
 | John Stanley (printer.) - 1849 - 178 Seiten
...Franklin very politely, a thing he had never done before, ever afterwards acting as his friend. " He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready...another, than he whom you yourself have obliged," is the sentiment to which allusion is made. Bradford, Franklin's competitor in the publication of a... | |
 | William Chambers - 1853 - 858 Seiten
...learned, which says, <He that has done у ><J a kindness will be more ready to do you another th*n he whom you yourself have obliged.' And it shows how much more profitable it is prudently to reтоте than to resent, return, and continue, inimical proceeding»." He was thereafter re-elected... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 Seiten
...to his death. This is another instance of the truth of an old maxim I had learned, which says, " He, that has once done you a kindness, will be more ready...proceedings. In 1737, Colonel Spotswood, late governor of Yirginia, and then postmaster general, being dissatisfied with the conduct of his deputy at Philadelphia,... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - 1855 - 466 Seiten
...his death. This is another instance of the truth of an old maxim that I had learned, which says, " he that has once done you a kindness, will be more ready...resent, return and continue inimical proceedings.' " EUMBEE XXXI. OF THE VAST IMPOBTANCE OF MANNEB IN GIVING- COUNSEL AND BEPEOOF. To exasperate is not... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Horatio Hastings Weld - 1856 - 584 Seiten
...to his death. This is another instance of the truth of an old maxim I had learned, which says, " He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whojn you yourself have obliged" And it shows how much more profitable it is prudently to remove, than... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1857 - 364 Seiten
...furnished him with a new instance of the truth of a maxim which he learned when a boy, that he who has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you have yourself obliged : and adds, what all other persons would do well to adopt as a rule, " how much... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 430 Seiten
...didn't borrow this, — he speaks as if it were old. But then he applied it so neatly ! — "•He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready...you another than he whom you yourself have obliged." Then there is that glorious Epicurean paradox, uttered by my friend, the Historian, in one of his flashing... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 420 Seiten
...he didn't borrow this, — he speaks as if it were old. But then he applied it so neatly ! — " He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready...you another than he whom you yourself have obliged." Then there is that glorious Epicurean paradox, uttered by my friend, the Historian, in one of his flashing... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1859 - 680 Seiten
...truth of an old maxim I liad learned, which says, " He that has once done you a kindness, will be mare ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged" And it shows hflw much more profitable it is prudently to remove, than to resent, return, and continue inimical... | |
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... which he had never done before, and with great civility ; and he ever after manifested a readiness to serve me on all occasions, so that we became great friends, and our friendship continued to his death. This is another instance of the truth of an... 
