 | george rice carpenter - 1898 - 498 Seiten
...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.... | |
 | 1898 - 264 Seiten
...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 - 1899 - 430 Seiten
...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 - 1899 - 510 Seiten
...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 - 1900 - 190 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1900 - 514 Seiten
...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 - 1900 - 450 Seiten
...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 - 1901 - 296 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - 444 Seiten
...practice of remembering and repeating those sentences, I have sometimes quoted myself with great gravity. by other learned authors. This pleasure I have seldom...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... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck, Frank R. Stockton, Nathan Haskell Dole, Julian Hawthorne - 1901 - 432 Seiten
...resist the temptation and ate the whole before we came. POOR RICHARD'S ALMANAC. X < M 8 a > o: o a a H by other learned authors. This pleasure I have seldom...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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I have been, if I may say it without vanity an eminent author of almanacks annually now a full quarter of a century, my brother authors in the same way, for what reason I know not, have ever been very sparing in their applauses, and no other author has... 
