 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 578 Seiten
...instruction, and upon this he * Cotton Mather. said to me, " You are young, and have the world before you; STOOP as you go through it, and you will miss many hard thumps." This advice, thus beat into ray head, has frequently been of use to me; and I often think of it, when I see pride mortified, and... | |
 | Edward Stanley Bosanquet - 1840 - 436 Seiten
...after being told to stoop as he was leaving a house. " You are young, and have the world before you : stoop as you go through it ; and you will miss many hard thumps 1." This advice then beat into my head, has frequently been of use to me : and I often think of it... | |
 | John Foster - 1844 - 590 Seiten
...and have the world before you ; STOOP as you go ihrowjh it, and you mil miss many hard thumps. The advice thus beat into my head, has frequently been...upon people by their carrying their heads too high." ***** But the most remarkable letter in the volume, is one written in his eighty-fifth year, to Dr.... | |
 | John Foster - 1844 - 432 Seiten
...of giving instruction ; and upon this he said to inc, you are young, and have the world before you ; STOOP as you go through it, and you will miss many hard thumps. The advice thus beat into my head, has frequently been of use to me, and I often think of it, when... | |
 | 1845 - 714 Seiten
...against the beam. "You are young," said Mather, noticing the accident, "and have the world before you ; stoop as you go through it, and you will miss many hard thumps." Franklin did not forget the caution, especially when he saw the pride of people mortified by carrying... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 320 Seiten
...giving instruction ; and upon this he said to me : "You are young, and have the world before you : stoop as you go through it, and you will miss many...upon people by their carrying their heads too high. I long much to see again my native place ; and once hoped to lay my bones there. I left it in 1723.... | |
 | 1846 - 444 Seiten
...are young, and have the world before you ; learn to stoop as you go through it, and you will avoid many hard thumps.' This advice, thus beat into my...upon people by their carrying their heads too high." VACCINATION AND SMALL POX. IN examining the District Registrar's notes on the deaths which have occurred... | |
 | 1744 - 596 Seiten
...impart instruction, and on this occasion said, ' You are a young man and have to go through the world; stoop as you go through it, and you will miss many...hard thumps' This advice, thus beat into my head, has been of singular service to me, and I have often thought of it when I have seen pride mortified, and... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 250 Seiten
...giving instruction ; and upon this lie said to me : " You are young, and have the world hefore you : stoop as you go through it, and you will miss many hard thumps." This advice, thus heat into my head, has frequently heen of use to me ; and I often think of it, when I see pride mortified,... | |
 | 1848 - 420 Seiten
...aie y oung, and have tho world before you ; stoop a little as you go through it, and you will avoid many hard thumps!" This advice, thus beat into my...see pride mortified, and misfortunes brought upon a people by carrying their heads loo high." MAN'S FRIENDS. MAN has three friends iu this world —... | |
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This advice, thus beat into my head, has frequently been of use to me; and I often think of it, when I see pride mortified, and misfortunes brought upon people by their carrying their heads too high. 
