 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 562 Seiten
...he did n'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... | |
 | William Shepard Walsh - 1892 - 1114 Seiten
...for the evil we have done, as a fear of that which may result to us. Benjamin Franklin notes, " He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready...you another than he whom you yourself have obliged." Grave to Gay. A famous couplet in Pope's " Essay on Man," Epistle iv., 1. 379, runs as follows : Formed... | |
 | 1892 - 406 Seiten
...he did n't borrow this, — he speaks as if it were old. But then he applied it BO 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 - 1892 - 374 Seiten
...he did n'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 - 1892 - 202 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 have obliged.'1'' And it shows how much more profitable it is prudently to remove, than to resent, return,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1893 - 320 Seiten
...he did n'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 - 1895 - 310 Seiten
...instance of the truth of an old maxim I had learned, which says: " He that Juts once done you a kindnets will be more ready to do you another, than he whom...dissatisfied with the conduct of his deputy at Philadelphia, reBpecting some negligence in rendering, and want of exactness in framing, his accounts, took from... | |
 | 1896 - 752 Seiten
...became great friends — " 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...obliged.' And it shows how much more profitable it is to prudently remove, than to resent, return, and continue inimical proceedings." Spain, having been... | |
 | Hamilton Wright Mabie - 1896 - 750 Seiten
...became great friends — " 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 liave obliged.' And it shows how much more profitable it is to prudently remove, than to resent, return,... | |
 | Benjamin Harrison - 1897 - 410 Seiten
...perquisite, except the letters charged to them by postmasters. In his Autobiography Franklin says : In 1737 Colonel Spotswood, late Governor of Virginia,...dissatisfied with the conduct of his deputy at Philadelphia, , , , . ' , . Franklin Post. . . took from him the commission matter at Philaand offered it to me.... | |
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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... 
