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... Benjamin Franklin as a Man of Letters - Seite 115von John Bach McMaster - 1896 - 293 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Osgood Eaton Fuller - 1884 - 564 Seiten
...unique a piece of writing as any language affords. Here it is: POOR RICHARD'S ADDRESS. 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.... | |
| Fortunate men - 1884 - 192 Seiten
...in the Preface of an old Pennsylvania Almanack, 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.... | |
| Ludwig Herrig - 1885 - 752 Seiten
...in the preface of as old I'eu«aylvaiua Almanack, intided. Poor Richard improved. Courteous Reader, register of his others. Judge, then, how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am going to relate to you.... | |
| Frank McAlpine - 1886 - 456 Seiten
...career, civil and military, of which the history of the world furnishes no other example. Poor Richard. 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.... | |
| Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 Seiten
...TO WEALTH. [From a Discourseprefixed to "Poor Richard ' s Almanac" for 1757.] /^OUETEOUS 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.... | |
| John Kneeland, Henry Nathan Wheeler - 1891 - 494 Seiten
...pages which follow are the connected discourse prefixed to the almanac of 1757.] COURTEOUS READER : — I have heard that nothing gives an author so great...I may say it without vanity, an eminent author of A hnanacs annually, now for a full quarter of a century, my brother authors in the same way, for what... | |
| Marshman William Hazen - 1895 - 452 Seiten
...little longer. 1. Glisten, supersede, iniquity, slaughter, reformation. LX. POOR RICHARD. PART I. 1. I have heard that nothing gives an author so great...works respectfully quoted by other learned authors. Judge, then, how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am going to relate to you. I stopped... | |
| Marshman William Hazen - 1895 - 450 Seiten
...little longer. 1. Glisten, supersede, iniquity, slaughter, reformation. LX. POOR RICHARD. PART I. 1. I have heard that nothing gives an author so great...works respectfully quoted by other learned authors. Judge, then, how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am going to relate to you. I stopped... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 464 Seiten
...place to bring thy appetite to reason. THE WAY TO WEALTH From Poor Richard's Almanack 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.... | |
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