 | Benjamin Franklin, John Bigelow - 1875 - 579 Seiten
...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...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
...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...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
...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 you another than he whom you yourself...resent, return, and continue inimical proceedings." There was something in this transaction, an apparent want of sincerity, an approach to trickery, which... | |
 | Robert James Ball - 1878 - 254 Seiten
...as if it were old. But then he applied it so neatly : " ' He that has once done you a kindness will be 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 his... | |
 | John Stevens C. Abbott - 1879 - 418 Seiten
...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 you another than he whom you yourself...resent, return, and continue inimical proceedings." There was something in this transaction, an apparent want of sincerity, an approach to trickery, which... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1882 - 640 Seiten
...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 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 his flashing... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1883 - 354 Seiten
...if it were old. But then he applied it so neatly ! — " lie that has once done you a kindness will be 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 his flashing... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1886 - 156 Seiten
...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...Philadelphia, respecting some negligence in rendering, and inexactitude of his accounts, took from him the commission and offered it to me. I accepted it readily,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1886 - 256 Seiten
...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...proceedings. In 1737, Colonel Spotswood, late governor of Vir- ^ ' ginia, and then postmaster-general, being dissatisfied with the conduct of his deputy at Philadelphia,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1888 - 330 Seiten
...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...Philadelphia, respecting some negligence in rendering, and inexactitude of his accounts, took from him the commission and offered it to me.1 I accepted it readily,... | |
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... 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 old maxim I had learned, which says,... 
