 | John Nicholas Norton - 1861 - 294 Seiten
...printing of the votes, laws, paper-money, and other profitable jobs for the public. The following year Colonel Spotswood, late governor of Virginia, and...dissatisfied with the conduct of his deputy at Philadelphia, offered the position to the thriving printer. Franklin accepted it, and although the salary was small,... | |
 | James Parton - 1864 - 668 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 whom you yourself haw obliged? And it shows how much more profitable it is prudently to remove, than to resent, return,... | |
 | James Parton - 1865 - 672 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...resent, return, and continue inimical proceedings." of maneuvers, and of all actions, the real motive of which is different from the apparent one, tlmt... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1868 - 426 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...resent, return, and continue inimical proceedings. I In 1737, Colonel Spotswood, late governor of Virginia, and then postmaster-general, being dissatisfied... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1868 - 434 Seiten
...it were old. But then be applied it so neatly ! — " He that has once done you a kindness will bo more ready to do 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 hia flashing... | |
 | World, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1870 - 822 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...resent, return, and continue inimical proceedings. — Analytic Magazine. THE RECONCILED ENEMY. ST. FRANCIS did not approve of the saying, " Never rely... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1870 - 242 Seiten
...feel sure he didn't borrow this — he speaks as if it were old. But then he applied it so neatly ! " lie that has once done you a kindness will be more...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, John Bigelow - 1875 - 579 Seiten
...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...resent, return, and continue inimical proceedings. In i737» Colonel Spotswood, late governor of Virginia, and then postmaster-general, being dissatisfied... | |
 | Jeremiah Chaplin - 1876 - 416 Seiten
..." This is another instance," he adds, " of the truth of an old maxim I had learned, which says, 'He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready...return and continue, inimical proceedings." In 1737 he met with another piece of good fortune, or, rather, his industry and integrity were rewarded, in... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1876 - 394 Seiten
...death. This is another instance of the truth of an old maxim I had learned, which says ' He that hath once done you a kindness will be more ready to do...resent, return, and continue inimical proceedings." There was something in this transaction, an apparent want of sincerity, an approach to trickery, which... | |
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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... 
